Recipes

Deep fried ice cream with caramel sauce

Serves 4

INGREDIENTS

Full cream vanilla ice cream

500g 2 day old commercial Madeira cake, processed into crumbs

3 eggs, beaten ¼ teaspoon milk

4 litres oil for deep frying

METHOD

1.Place a scone tray into the freezer for

10 minutes to get really cold. Scoop ice cream onto cold tray to make 8 balls. Return to freezer immediately until ice cream is very hard.

2.Meanwhile, break cake into small pieces and process in a food processor or crumble with fingers to yield 4 cups cake crumbs.

3.To coat ice cream, remove one ball at a time from freezer. Using two spoons, roll ice cream in combined egg and milk then cake crumbs. Return to freezer and repeat with remaining ice cream.

NOTE

Working one at a time ensures ice cream doesn’t melt.

4.Leave in freezer for a minimum 1 hour then repeat coating in egg mixture then cake crumbs to ensure a thick, firm coating. Return to freezer for 15 minutes.

5.Fill deep fryer with 4 litres of oil and preheat to 190°C.

6.Deep fry ice cream in two batches until golden, approximately 30 seconds allowing oil to reheat between each batch. Drain.

Serve immediately with Caramel Sauce.

Caramel sauce

INGREDIENTS

60g butter

¾ cup brown sugar

1 tablespoon cornflour

½cup water

½cup cream Pinch salt

METHOD

1.Melt butter in saucepan or microwave. Add brown sugar stirring until smooth.

2.Add cornflour blended with water; bring to boil stirring until thickened.

3.Stir through cream and salt.

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Breville BDF450XL brochure Deep fried ice cream with caramel sauce, Caramel sauce
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BDF450XL specifications

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