Tuesdays with Dorie: Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream

I'm back baking with TWD! We are pretty much settled in as much as we're going to be for a little bit (still have a few things to fix up here), but for Tuesdays with Dorie this week, we're making chocolate ice cream! How perfect, since it's our 7 year old's birthday too! After a couple hours playing at the beach, this was great!


Ocean Beach Pier Cafe, playing at Ocean Beach, CA -will have to eat there sometime!

Katrina of Baking and Boys chose to make Chocolate Ganache Ice Cream. (she's got the recipe for ya!)



I made a double batch because well we love ice cream! This is my second time using the ice cream maker, and we loved the first batch we made. I used Ghirardelli 60% Cacao Bittersweet Chocolate Chips. Boy is this a rich chocolaty creamy ice cream! You know what else? Like other TWDers have done, this would be great made into rocky road ice cream! Chocolate lovers, you'll love this!

sometimes I am lazy to look up the TWD link on my blog, so I search it, lol... well it got me 14 Swag Buck Bills this time! Are you a Swaggernaut too? I'm still getting there, trying to earn my 3rd Amazon GC.


enjoy,

Tuesdays with Dorie: Banana Coconut Ice Cream Pie

Spike of spike.bakes selected Banana Coconut Ice Cream Pie this week (he'll have the recipe for ya). Check this recipe out. You take shortbread cookies, coconut and butter. Cook them down a little then press into a pie dish and freeze. Stir chocolate ice cream with pureed bananas to make the filling. Freeze. Easy as pie! No baking!! Perfect for the upcoming summer! Well for those of use getting summer this year! In Utah it just snowed!
Anyways, this crust is awesome. The overall pie, I was honestly not crazy about. Since it's all frozen, it's hard to slice and my crust stuck to the dish when getting a slice out. Then it was hard to eat just a bite, it was "hard". Well I did freeze mine a day + overnight so maybe that's why. I had to let it sit out a bit to slice it and eat. The kids liked it though. I used a dark chocolate gelato and left the rum out of mine and sliced the bananas for the top per slice of pie.

You know what I'm thinking, this would be great done as a Banana Coconut Chocolate pudding/cream pie instead. But that crust! I may have to think of something else to use that with too, Hmmm....something key lime maybe?

enjoy,

Tuesdays with Dorie: Burnt Sugar Ice Cream

Becky of Project Domestication chose Burnt Sugar Ice Cream for her TWD pick and I am so excited! I finally have an ice cream maker (Sister in Law's old one)!

So after making 2 batches of the base, I got all my ingredients ready to start, but when I started reading the manual it said I also needed lots of ice and salt to add to my mixer! *sigh! I thought only those old hand crank mixers (like my Dad's) needed salt and ice? lol. So I had to wait later to make it, when I could get them. So once I had them, I set it all up ready to go, and the darn thing wouldn't start! WHAAT? Mr. took it apart and realized the motor had rusted out. Toast. I really didn't want to freeze it by hand. So I jumped on Ebay (knowing I'd have days to wait), then Mr. said Craigslist! Duh! LUCKILY there was 1 in my area for sale! 2 towns over, 1 hour and $20 later, I was freezing my new-to-me ice cream maker bowl.

The first batch I made went in when ready, it took 50 minutes and it was still very soft serve. I froze it in a bowl anyways to harden more. Then I refroze the ice cream maker bowl even longer for my 2nd batch, I wanted it COLD. The next day we ate batch #1 and it finally hardened enough where you could eat 1 scoop without it melting. Yay! (fyi- 1 batch fed the five of us 1 scoop + 2 extras). Batch #2 even though the base sat in the fridge a couple days during this ordeal, came out great. In fact I got more volume while churning it than #1 and I only let it go 40 minutes the max. time, and gave it a day to freeze up as well. I'm sure glad I started this early in the week! Whew!

We all loved it! This ice cream is rich, caramely, and very very good. It was pretty easy to make, just a lot of patience is needed while heating and stirring the cream, milk and sugar base. The sugar will harden up, but keep stirring the cream and milk over it, and it'll dissolve and be ok.

This is my second time ever making ice cream. My first time was another of Dorie's TWD recipes, but I had to really make it by hand, and it took forever to freeze up, but it was good!

So if you'd like to make this wonderful ice cream, and preferably have an ice cream maker, freeze the bowl well ahead of time, and visit Becky's blog for this recipe.

enjoy,