Vanilla Ice Cream and Salty Caramel Sauce

Today i made Vanilla Ice Cream. I searched for a good recipe. I do not have an ice cream machine, so that is something to keep in mind. On the BBC website i found a good recipe, vanilla ice cream with only double cream, yolks, sugar and vanilla as ingredients. Great!

Ingredients

• 2 vanilla pods
• 500ml cream
• 70g sugar
• 3 egg yolks

Method

1. slice the vanilla pods lengthwise in half and scrape out the seeds, keep the seeds apart
2. add the pods to the cream, heat it up till it boils, add the sugar and stir it until the sugar is dissolved
3. whisk the egg yolks in a large bowl, slowly add the cream mixture
4. add the vanilla seeds, keep on whisking till it cools down, pour into a freezer-proof container and freeze for 2-3 hours

Keep the egg whites apart. I might make a meringue later in the week.

For a Salted Caramel Sauce i used Nigella’s recipe. I did look for golden syrup in the supermarket today. I had seen it before, but it was sold out. I decided i was going to use honey.

Ingredients

• 75g unsalted butter
• 50g light brown sugar
• 50g caster sugar
• 50g golden syrup – honey in this case
• 125ml cream
• 1 teaspoon of salt, any type you want

Method

1. melt butter, sugars and syrup or honey, let it simmer for a couple of minutes while swirling the mixture
2. add the cream and the salt, taste to see if you have enough salt – please cool the mixture by blowing on it, it can be quite hot!
3. put the sauce in a glass pot to save, keep it outside the fridge until it is completely cooled

When i made my Vanilla Ice Cream and Salty Caramel Sauce, the ice cream wasn’t completely set yet. I wasn’t going to wait! So i twirled the mixture a bit. The sides were frozen, the bottom was too. The middle was still a bit fluid. When it was all mixed i scooped out a bulb of ice cream and added the salted caramel sauce. Yummy!