Then I discovered David Lebovitz. Now, I regularly make Dulce De Leche, his way. It is incredibly easy. I also love it because it's not as messy as some techniques (and I am, as you will see from the sate of my benches and stove top in the pictures below, extremely messy!!!) nor is it as scary as the boiling on the stove technique for someone who gets distracted very easily!
I have used it to make Dulce De Leche brownies - also one of David's recipes, as well as an amazing Donna Hay chocolate and caramel pudding.
A few weeks ago we were having friends over for dinner and I was making a buffet of lots of different savoury foods, so I wanted something I could make ahead for dessert. So I decided to make ice cream. I ended up making three different ice creams! The first was a chocolate, peanut butter ice cream (which can be found in his book The Perfect Scoop), the second was a white chocolate sorbet which you can find here.
My favourite caramel ice cream is yet another one of David's and is Salted Butter Caramel with praline through it. It is extreme and delicious. You can find the recipe here. It is super rich with butter, eggs and cream and with our savoury menu I wanted something "lighter"!!! ;-)
I saw a recipe for Dulce De Leche ice cream on the lovely Lisa's http://spicyicecream.com.au/ blog and set out to make a version of that. She has some brilliant recipes over there and I shall certainly work my way through them! You can find Lisa's original version here.
So this is my tribute to my two favourite ice cream bloggers, using a combination of their recipes.
Salted Dulce De Leche Ice Cream
Ingredients:
- 2 cans sweetened condensed milk
-a decent sprinkle of sea salt
-300ml cream
-500ml full fat milk
-1 tsp vanilla paste
Method:
-make the Dulce De Leche using David's method - see it in detail here. I made a double batch for this recipe.
Pour both tins of milk in to oven proof dish.
Cover with foil and put it in a larger dish to create a water bath. Half fill with boiling water and put in 210 degree oven for 1-1.5 hours. I usually keep it in a bit longer as I like it quite dark. ESSENTIAL POINT-keep checking the water level in the bath and refill a couple of times through the cooking process.
Remove the foil and add a generous sprinkle of sea salt.
When the Dulce De Leche is still in the oven (but nearly ready), heat the milk and cream in a heavy based saucepan.
When the mixture is almost at a boil, add 3/4 of the still hot Dulce de Leche and the vanilla paste and whisk over the heat until all dissolved and smooth.
Allow to cool, then put in fridge for several hours until very cold.
Churn mixture as per your ice cream maker's instructions. For mine, it is about 25 minutes on 1.
When the ice cream is thick, add a couple of spoonfuls of the remaining Dulce De Leche and churn gently just to combine and swirl through.
When you put it in a container to put in the freezer, dollop small blobs of remaining Dulce De Leche and fold through with a spatula.
My husband can not possibly wait another minute to taste the ice cream so he has a taste straight from churning.
YUM!
Mini scoops of all three flavours for our dinner party.
A few days later, with a freezer FULL of ice cream, I made some choc tops.
Melt 50grams of milk and 50grams of dark chocolate over a double boiler and line 3 waffle cones. Put in freezer to set.
Add a scoop of the salted Dulce De Leche ice cream and then quickly cover with the remaining melted chocolate and put back in the freezer to set.
The look a bit revolting, but I like to think it's in a good way!!!!!!!!! They were extremely yummy!!!
Since making this, I have seen a post for these little beauties and am in the process of knocking them up using another batch of this ice cream for my sister in law's birthday this week. They look a lot more refined than my choc tops!!!
Love Amy xoxo
