White Chocolate Ice Cream Food

WHITE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Add the milk to a heavy medium-size saucepan; bring to a simmer.
• Remove from the heat and slowly beat the hot milk in the the eggs in a medium mixing bowl.
• Pour the entire mixture back into the pan and put over low heat.
• Stir constantly with a whisk until the custard slightly thickens (be careful not to let the mixture boil or the eggs will scamble).
• Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate; stir until the chocolate is melted.
• Pour the hot custard through a strainer into a large, clean bowl.
• Allow the custard to cool slightly, then stir in the cream and vanilla.
• Cover and refrigerate until cold or overnight.
• Stir the chilled mixture; freeze in 1 or 2 batches in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions.
• May eat ice cream immediately or transfer to a freezer container and freeze at least two hours for a firmer ice cream.

WHITE CHOCOLATE AND RASPBERRY ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Heat milk, sugar, vanilla bean and seeds, and salt in a saucepan over medium heat until warm, about 5 minutes.
• Whisk egg yolks and about 1 cup warm milk mixture in a bowl; stir egg mixture into saucepan. Continue to cook and stir until custard thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 7 minutes. Remove vanilla bean. Stir white chocolate chips into custard until melted. Pour custard into a large bowl and stir in heavy cream and vanilla extract. Cover and refrigerate until chilled.
• Pour the chilled mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's directions until it reaches "soft-serve" consistency.
• Heat raspberries in a saucepan over medium heat until raspberries begin to fall apart, 7 to 10 minutes. Press raspberries through a sieve over a bowl to remove the seeds; discard seeds.
• Gently swirl raspberries into the soft ice cream creating ribbons of raspberries. Transfer ice cream to a one- or two-quart lidded plastic container; cover surface with plastic wrap and seal. For best results, ice cream should ripen in the freezer for at least 2 hours or overnight.

WHITE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In the top pan of a double boiler (or use two saucepans one on top of the other) set over simmering water, scald half and half.
• Add chocolate and sugar to saucepan and continue stirring until chocolate is melted (5 minutes). Remove from heat.
• Using electric mixer beat eggs in medium bowl. Add some of the saucepan mixture to eggs. Return mixture to saucepan and cook for one minute over low heat, stirring constantly. Do not boil. Remove from heat. ***Note: if using egg subsitute you do not need to return mixture to saucepan in order to pasterurize eggs, instead beat egg subsitute in bowl and add saucepan mixture (after it cools to room temp.) to eggs and proceed as below.***
• Blend in cream.
• Refrigerate until well chilled (4 hours).
• Process in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
• Process in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.

WHITE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM AND LEMON SUGAR COOKIE ICE CREAM SANDWICHES

Steps:

• For the ice cream: In a medium saucepan set over medium-low heat, combine the cream, 1/2 cup of the granulated sugar and the vanilla seeds. Bring the mixture just to a simmer, stirring occasionally. Remove from the heat, then add the white chocolate and whisk until combined and smooth.
• In a small bowl, combine the eggs and the remaining 1/2 cup granulated sugar, and beat until smooth.
• Strain the cream mixture through a fine mesh sieve, and then whisk a third of the cream mixture into the eggs. Immediately whisk the eggs into the remaining cream mixture. Chill the ice cream base over an ice bath and freeze for 30 minutes.
• Using an ice cream maker, churn the ice cream base according to the manufacturer's instructions. Freeze in an airtight container for 1 hour.
• For the cookies: Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Line two cookie sheets with parchment paper. Sift the flour, baking soda and salt into a medium bowl and set aside.
• In the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium speed, cream together the butter, brown sugar and granulated sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a rubber spatula. Beat in the vanilla and eggs. Gradually add the dry ingredients to the mixer, and mix until the batter is smooth. Turn off the mixer and fold in half of the pistachios and the lemon zest using the spatula.
• Scoop about 1/4 cup of the cookie dough at a time onto the prepared cookie sheets, leaving some room between each cookie, for about 12 cookies total. Press down the tops of the dough slightly and sprinkle with some nonpareils. Bake until the cookies are light brown, 12 minutes for chewy cookies or about 15 minutes for crispy cookies.
• Cool the cookies on the baking sheets for 5 minutes and then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
• In a shallow dish, combine the remaining pistachios with the blueberries. Using an ice cream scoop, scoop some ice cream onto a cookie, and top with another cookie to form a sandwich. Repeat for the remaining cookies and ice cream. Roll the edges of the ice cream sandwiches in the pistachio-blueberry mixture and freeze for 10 minutes before serving.

COCONUT & WHITE CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Place the eggs, egg yolks and sugar in a heatproof bowl and beat together until well blended (this bowl will sit over a saucepan of water at step 3, so make sure you get your sizes right first).
• Gently heat the single cream, chocolate and coconut in a saucepan until they melt; once melted continue to heat, stirring constantly until almost boiling; pour the cream mixture onto the egg mixture, stirring vigourously to mix everything thoroughly.
• Place the bowl over a saucepan of gently simmering wter, making sure the base of the bowl does not touch the water; heat the mixture, stirring constantly, until it lightly coats the back of a spoon; turn off the heat, carefully take the bowl off the pan and leave the contents to cool.
• Place the double cream and rum (or whatever you are using) into a seperate bowl and whip until slightly thickened; then fold into the cooled chocolate mixture.
• Freeze in an ice-cream maker, or pour into one large or 2 small freezerproof containers and freeze for 8 hours (or overnight).
• Unless you want spoons like Uri Geller's, transfer the container from the freezer to your fridge for 30 minutes before serving.

WHITE CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY RIPPLE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• To prepare the Sauce: Press the raspberries and their syrup through a sieve into a saucepan.
• Add the corn syrup, lemon juice, and cornstarch mixture.
• (If using preserves, omit the cornstarch mixture, but add the water.) Bring to a boil, stirring often, then simmer for 1-2 minutes.
• Pour into a bowl and cool, then chill For the Ice Cream: In a saucepan, combine the milk and 1 cup of the cream and bring to a boil.
• Beat the yolks and the sugar in a bowl with a hand-held electric mixture for 2-3 minutes, until thick and creamy.
• Gradually pour the hot milk mixture over the yolks and return to the pan.
• Cook over medium heat until the custard coats the back of a wooden spoon, stirring constantly Remove the pan from the heat and stir in the white chocolate until melted and smooth.
• Pour the remaining cream into a large bowl.
• Strain in the hot custard, mix well, then stir in the vanilla.
• Cool, then transfer the custard to an ice-cream maker and freeze it according to the manufactor's instructions When the mixture is frozen, but still soft, transfer 1/3 of the ice cream into a freezerproof bowl.
• Set half the raspberry sauce aside.
• Spoon a third of the remaining sauce over the ice cream.
• Cover with another 1/3 over the ice cream and then more sauce.
• Repeat.
• With a knife or spoon, lightly marble the mixture.
• Cover and freeze.
• Let the ice cream soften for 15 minutes before serving with the remaining sauce.

CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Break up the chocolate and place with the unsalted butter in a warm-ish oven for about 15 minutes. Remove and stir until melted and blended together.
• Over a low heat dissolve the sugar in the water then turn up the heat and boil rapidly for a few minutes to get a light syrup. It's ready before the syrup takes any colour, when a little dropped on to a cold plate forms a thread when stretched between finger and thumb. Leave the mixture to cool for just a minute.
• Place the egg yolks in a basin and begin whisking (ideally with an electric whisk), trickling in the hot syrup as you go. Continue whisking until the mixture is thick and mousse-like. Whisk in the cream. Then fold in the melted chocolate and butter until thoroughly blended. Then pour the mixture into an ice cream machine and churn until frozen.

WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP MACADAMIA NUT ICE CREAM WITH VARIATIONS

Steps:

• Whisk together milk and pudding mix.
• Stir in sweetened milk.
• Freeze according to your machine directions adding nuts and chips at the appropriate time. (I add mine about 15 minutes into the freezing process.).
• Remove from machine and store in container in freezer.
• *Prep does not include freezing time.
• Variations:.
• Chocolate Fudge Pudding, almonds and chocolate chips.
• Butterscotch Pudding, chopped toasted pecans.
• Banana Creme Pudding with peanut butter and chocolate chips.
• Vanilla Pudding with anything! crushed cookies, candy, fresh fruit or berries -- you get the idea!

WHITE CHOCOLATE CREAM

Steps:

• Stir chocolate in top of double boiler set over simmering water until smooth. Remove from water. Cool to room temperature. Beat cream in medium bowl until firm peaks form. Stir half of cream into cooled chocolate; fold in remaining cream. (Can be made 4 hours ahead. Cover; chill.)

WHITE CHOCOLATE ALMOND ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Bring milk to a simmer in a saucepan set over medium heat.
• Whisk eggs in a large bowl until smooth. Whisk half of the hot milk into the eggs.
• Pour egg and milk mixture back into the saucepan and cook over low heat, whisking constantly, until thickened into a custard, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from heat; stir in white chocolate until melted. Stir in heavy cream and almond extract.
• Refrigerate custard until thoroughly chilled, at least 1 hour.
• Freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions, 20 to 25 minutes. Transfer to a freezer-safe container and freeze until firm, 3 to 6 hours.