Like many children, I used to be way more keen on the tasty cookie dough than the precise baked cookies. However cookie dough can also be an important addition to ice cream – and given the season, we’ll use some basic Swedish gingerbread cookie dough!
– “Why so few cookies?” As a result of Santa put a lot of the dough into his ice cream!
Making the ice cream … and the dough
The legendary ice cream makers Ben & Jerry are sometimes credited because the inventors of what most likely is probably the most well-known business line of cookie dough ice cream – because the story goes, they created their first batch in 1984, following a suggestion by an nameless fan.
Fortunately, making cookie dough ice cream may be very easy: make a base and add items of cookie dough.
When you can select any favorite ice cream base you want, I went with a very easy-to-make Philadelphia (or American) model one: no cooking required – in the event you can combine contemporary milk, cream and sugar, you’re principally there!
The ice cream base ought to solely take about a few minutes to organize!
Touched by the approaching Xmas spirit, I made a decision to go for gingerbread cookie dough. For individuals who don’t have already got their very own favorite recipe, I’ll share the one I used beneath (or exit and purchase some ready-made dough in the event you can’t be bothered to make the dough your self).
The cookie dough ought to ideally chill in your fridge a couple of hours or over night time earlier than being added to your ice cream, so let’s start right here: The Swedish recipe I used is conventional and easy with only one modification – I doubled the quantity of spices since chilly typically dampens flavours.
Mmm … home-made gingerbread cookie dough!
The dough requires a couple of elements, notably wheat flour, butter, mild syrup, some cream, a contact of bicarbonate and a few floor cinnamon, ginger and clove. Optionally, it’s also possible to add an egg – simply concentrate on the potential well being hazards (freezing the dough – not like baking it within the oven – sadly doesn’t kill salmonella micro organism).
Begin by mixing all of the dry elements after which add the liquid ones. Work the dough effectively till fairly agency and even. Put apart to relax in your fridge for a couple of hours or over night time: the dough will even be simpler to work (and switch into items)
The recipe (see beneath) will web you about 550-600 gram: sufficient for about 2 batches of ice cream … or for 1 batch of ice cream and a few further gingerbread cookies baked on the aspect 😉
Placing the dough into the ice cream
With the dough prepared, combine collectively the ice cream base.
Begin churning: in direction of the tip, when the ice cream has begun to agency up, begin to add items of the cookie dough. Little by little, add all of the cookie dough and let the churning end.
Perfectionists might attempt so as to add items of cookie dough of a uniform dimension. However must you discover it tough, don’t fret an excessive amount of about it: the ice cream is sort of forgiving except you make your items too huge or a lot too small 😉
Simply churned cookie dough ice cream. Whereas the cookie dough additionally may very well be added simply after the churning, I believe it most likely is less complicated to combine within the items in the course of the ultimate section of the churning.
Simply churned cookie dough ice cream – good, however added freezing will make it even higher!
Put the ice cream in a freezer-safe container and let agency up for at the least a few hours in your freezer.
Cookie dough ice cream – higher than cookies!
Pleasantly frozen – notice the irregularly formed items of dough which I believe provides the ice cream a pleasantly playful look 🙂
Cookie dough ice cream isn’t solely simple to make – it’s a actual crowd pleaser, since most individuals seem to maintain a particular place of their hearts for tasty cookie dough. The ice cream base could also be easy however is effectively fitted to framing the tasty dough. And the gingerbread dough gives all of the nice and Christmas-spicy aptitude one can ask for.
When you love ice cream, in the event you love cookie dough or in the event you really feel a bit bored by abnormal gingerbread cookies, that is the reply!
Cookie dough ice cream – Swedish Christmas model
By: Anders@icecreamnation.org
- 300 ml (about 1¼ cups) cream
- about 100 ml (about 2/5 cup) crème fraiche
- 100 ml (about 2/5 cup) milk
- 100 ml (about 2/5 cup) sugar
- about 2 tablespoons inverted sugar (glucose- or corn syrup or equal)
- pinch of salt
- 250 gram gingerbread cookie dough, added in small morsels
- 150 ml (about 3/5 cup) sugar
- 600 ml (about 2½ cup) wheat flour
- 75 gram butter
- 50 ml (about ⅕ cup) cream
- 100 ml (about 2/5) mild (or golden) syrup
- ½ tablespoon bicarbonate
- 1 tablespoon floor cinnamon
- 1 tablespoon floor ginger
- ½ tablespoon floor clove
- 2 tablespoons water
- (elective: 1 egg)
- Combine all dry elements in a bowl, add the liquid ones and work the dough till comparatively agency and even.
- Put it within the fridge to relax (it is going to be simpler to work if chilly).
- In a bowl, whisk collectively all elements (apart from the cookie dough). Guarantee that all of the sugar has dissolved and that the ice cream base is whisked good and easy.
- Pour the ice cream base into the ice cream machine and churn in keeping with directions OR (in case you don’t have any machine) still-freeze the ice cream base in your freezer (see the submit on that for useful advise).
- In direction of the tip of the churning, when the ice cream has began to settle and agency up (however nonetheless stays mushy), add – piece by piece – the gingerbread cookie dough.
- Put the ice cream in a freezer-safe container, placed on plastic movie and a lid and retailer within the freezer: the ice cream might be even higher in the event you let it agency up for at the least a few hours within the freezer earlier than having fun with it.
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