The Return Of The Ice Cream!

[kerravonsen]

After almost a year of silence, the ice-cream experiments are back! I finally have a replacement paddle for my ice-cream machine, so it is back in operation. To celebrate, I made...

Experiment #49: Strawberry Coconut Ice Cream
Based on a recipe I downloaded from the net ages ago, and while I did save the URL, I get a 404 message now. 8-(

Recipe:
* 1 punnet (250g) fresh strawberries
* 1 t soy lecithin
* 2 x 270ml cans Ayam coconut cream
* 1 t Xanthan Gum
* 4 T Splenda granular
* 1 t vanilla bean powder

Puree the strawberries.
Thin the coconut cream with hot/boiling water (because it had solidified; this is top-quality coconut-cream, folks!). Add to strawberries.
Blend in the rest of the ingredients.
Process in the ice-cream maker.

Whys: I decided to do strawberry-coconut because I had the strawberries already, I had the coconut cream, I hadn't done it before, I was out of practice so I thought following someone else's recipe would be more liable to work.
The downside of this is that coconut cream is definitely not low-fat.
I added the lecithin in the hope that it would do a bit of emulsifying.
The Xanthan gum was of course to try to make it more scoopable after it had been in the freezer. I've also decided to put my ice-cream into the freezer of my refrigerator rather than the separate freezer, because the separate freezer tends to freeze things harder.

Result: Taste is mild strawberry with coconut; I feel as if the strawberry was a bit overwhelmed by the coconut. Texture is creamy, with just a touch of grit from the strawberry seeds. Just a very faint hint of oiliness, though I could have been imagining it.

Verdict: Nice, but not worth the high-fat-ness of the coconut cream. I liked the ginger-coconut ice-cream better.

Lessons: Don't mix strawberry and coconut. Try strawberry-milk-ice next time.

Comments

[the_magician]

Watching Masterchef: The Professionals last night, after they'd blended the strawberries, they pushed them through a fine sieve to remove the seeds ... you could also try stewing the strawberries with Splenda first and swirling them into the coconut later in the icecream making process ... or replacing/mixing them with raspberries :-)

[kerravonsen]

Strawberry swirl? Now that's a thought.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

I simply love your ICe-Cream Series - I always drool in my keyboard!:-)

[kerravonsen]

8-)