Praline Ice Cream Puffs Food

CREAM PUFFS PRALINE

Steps:

• CREAM PUFFS: Place butter in a medium saucepan. Add water and salt. Bring to boiling, stirring until butter melts. Add flour all at once, stirring vigorously. Cook and stir till mixture forms a ball that doesn't separate.
• Remove from heat; cool 10 minutes. Add eggs, one at a time, to flour mixture, beating with a wooden spoon after each addition for about 1 minute, or till smooth.
• Scoop up some dough with a tablespoon. use another spoon to push off the dough in a mound onto a lightly greased baking sheet. Leave 3-inches between the puffs for expansion. Bake in preheated 400F oven for about 30 minutes. or until golden brown. Remove puffs from pan. Cool on a rack.
• FOR PECAN: Line a baking pan with foil. Grease foil with a little margarine or butter; set aside. In a heavy skillet combine pecan halves, sugar, margarine or butter and vanilla. Cook over medium-high heat, shaking skillet occasionally, till sugar begins to melt. (do not stir). Reduce heat to low; cool till sugar is melted and golden brown, stirring frequently. Remove from heat. Pour into the prepared baking pan. Cool completely. Break into small pieces. Place ice cream in a chilled bowl. Use a wooden spoon to stir ice cream to soften slightly. Stir in glazed pecans. Cover and freeze.
• FOR SAUCE: In a heavy saucepan combine granulated sugar, brown sugar, half-and-half or light cream, and margarine or butter. Cool over medium-high heat till boiling, stirring constantly. Reduce heat. Cook and stir for 5 minutes more, or till slightly thickened. Stir in pecans. Keep warm.
• TO ASSEMBLE: Cut off the top fourth of each cream puff. Remove any soft dough from inside. Spoon about 1/3 cup of the ice cream mixture into each cream puff. Replace tops. Drizzle each cream puff with warm pecan sauce.

PRALINE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepan, heat milk to 175°; stir in sugar until dissolved. Whisk a small amount of hot mixture into eggs; return all to the pan, whisking constantly. Cook, stirring constantly, over low heat until mixture is just thick enough to coat a metal spoon and a thermometer reads at least 160°. Do not allow to boil. Remove from heat immediately., Quickly transfer to a large bowl; place bowl in a pan of ice water. Stir gently and occasionally for 2 minutes. Stir in cream and vanilla. Press plastic wrap onto surface of custard. Refrigerate several hours or overnight., Fill cylinder of ice cream freezer two-thirds full; freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. (Refrigerate any remaining mixture until ready to freeze.) Transfer ice cream to freezer containers, allowing headspace for expansion. Freeze 2-4 hours or until firm. Repeat with any remaining ice cream mixture., For candied pecans, in a heavy skillet, melt butter over medium heat. Stir in brown sugar, cinnamon and nutmeg; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved. Add pecans; cook and stir 2-3 minutes or until coated. Spread pecans onto a greased foil-lined baking sheet. Cool completely., For sauce, combine butter, water and corn syrup in a heavy saucepan. Cook and stir over medium-low heat until butter is melted. Add sugar; cook and stir until sugar is dissolved. Bring to a boil over medium-high heat without stirring. Boil 4 minutes. Stir 6-8 minutes or until mixture is caramel-colored. Remove from heat. Carefully stir in cream until smooth. Serve caramel sauce and candied pecans over ice cream.

PRALINE ICE-CREAM PUFFS

Steps:

• Heat oven to 400°F.
• Heat water and butter to rolling boil in 2 1/2-quart saucepan. Stir in flour; reduce heat to low. Stir vigorously about 1 minute or until mixture forms a ball; remove from heat. Beat in eggs, all at once; continute beating until smooth. Drop dough by scant 1/4 cupfuls about 3 inches apart onto ungreased cookie sheet.
• Bake 35 to 40 minutes or until puffed and golden. Cool away from draft, about 30 minutes. Cut off top third of each puff and pull out any strands of soft dough.
• Fill puffs with ice cream; replace tops. Cover and freeze until serving. Drizzle with caramel topping. Sprinkle with pecans. Store covered in freezer.

PRALINE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Stir milk gradually into egg yolks.
• Add sugar and salt; cook in the top of a double boiler until mixture coats the spoon.
• Chill thoroughly.
• Whip cream to very soft peaks (it won't quite hold its shape).
• Add pralines, vanilla and whipped cream.
• Freeze either in an ice cream maker or in the freezer (if using your freezer, stir twice during freezing to prevent large ice crystals from forming).