CHOCOLATE I SCREAM!

OK, I know ice cream has very little to do with Steam Oven Cooking…well nothing in fact, but MERCY it was good! I have been a bit obsessed with the old Thermomix, whipping up entire meals for thousands in seconds, and because of unseasonal sunny weather, the ice-cream idea just beckoned…and well, I am a star, what can I say? Get a load of this, but remember, NOT INSTANT…unless you get a flask of Liquid Nitrogen, you’ll be waiting overnight for this taste sensation.

NEED:

3 whole eggs

500g cream

250g milk

200g dark chocolate

200g caster sugar

1 tsp Heilala vanilla bean paste

Pinch sea salt

DO:

Place chocolate in TM bowl and chop 10 sec/speed 8. Remove from bowl and set aside.

Place eggs and sugar into TM bowl insert butterfly. Beat 4 min/37°C/speed 3.

Add all remaining ingredients, including chopped chocolate.

Cook 5 min/80°C/speed 5.

Pour into large metal loaf tin.

Place in freezer for approx 2 hours or until frozen around the edges.

Return to TM bowl and beat 30 sec/speed 9.

Return to loaf pan and return to freezer overnight.

You can beat it again if you would like it to be a lighter mixture…but I personally like a ‘heavy’ ice cream.

SERVE: Scoop into bowls or waffle cones and work at not eating it all in one sitting! This amount should serve 6-8 generously.

I now am going to add toasted almonds, macadamias or whatever, replace the dark chocolate with white, add cherries, or peanut butter ganache, replace half the cream with a bought custard…oh the mind boggles! Clearly I need to get more acquainted with the gym, that I have been so lax with of late!