Vanilla-Maple Yoghurt And Cream Ice Cream

[kerravonsen]

We have a heatwave. What better time to make some ice cream! Well, so long as the kitchen isn't too hot. I've attempted to make ice cream in the past when the kitchen was sweltering, and it didn't go so good. Fortunately my kitchen was not sweltering, well, not when I made the ice cream, at least.


Igor, fetch the maple sugar. Not the maple syrup, you imbecile, the maple SUGAR!

Experiment #75: Vanilla-Maple Yoghurt And Cream Ice Cream

Ingredients:

* 200ml Jalna Greek Yoghurt
* 300ml thickened cream
* 100ml Pure Maple Sugar (this was basically half my supply!)
* 1/2 t vanilla bean powder
* 1 egg

Instructions:

* Mix all ingredients except the egg
* Beat the egg
* Add the egg to the mix
* Process in ice cream machine.

The mixture made itself up into 700ml, so I poured off the excess until it was 600ml -- I didn't want the ice cream machine overflowing. I made a strawberry smoothie with the mix I'd poured off.
I put half the ice cream in the freezer and ate the other half straight away.

Whys: There is a heatwave and I had to use up the yoghurt, so I bought some cream...

Result: Delicious. And fattening.

* texture - beautifully creamy
* colour - cream with black flecks from the vanilla bean powder
* taste - mostly vanilla, but also slightly tangy and slightly maple-y; a bit odd, but nice; the combination of tangy from the yogurt and the maple taste of the maple sugar, just weren't what my taste buds were expecting

Verdict: Yum.

Lessons:

1. Maple Sugar does make things taste maple-y.
2. Possibly don't mix Maple flavour with Yoghurt.
3. Cream and yoghurt do go nicely together, if it is vanilla

Comments

[vera_j]

Oh yummmmmm...winter or summer, this is somthing I can eat any time!

[kerravonsen]

8-)

[suenicorn]

Sounds yummy, but ... where do you get maple sugar? I do have maple syrup. I have a recipe created by Sophie Masson, the children’s/YA writer, who also loves cooking. It involves cream, egg white and flavouring - vanilla essence if you want vanilla, which was her flavour. I made chocolate and Cointreau with melted chocolate - delicious!

[kerravonsen]

where do you get maple sugar?

With great difficulty! I tracked some down to an online health food store based in Brisbane... and they sent me Maple Syrup instead! Then I spent hours in phone tag trying to get someone to fix it. Seems that the gals on the phone only knew about the brick-and-mortar store and not the online one, and they kept sending me to the wrong place, or saying that the people in charge of that department weren't in. Arrgh! I did get my Maple Sugar eventually.

I made chocolate and Cointreau with melted chocolate - delicious!

Ooh, it would be! Presumably you didn't add a lot of Cointreau; it would have affected the freezing temperature of the mixture.

[suenicorn]

I didn’t know that, but no, I didn’t use much, Cointreau is too expensive for that! Enough to flavour it. I also have a recipe for a very rich chocolate cake that uses Cointreau and no, it doesn’t turn to vapour! I get the taste all right. Choc and orange go together so well!