I was given some Mars bars and Dairy Milk bars along with it, so I thought I’d use them for my first effort. I like to memorise things rather than follow printouts of recipes so I wanted a simple procedure I could memorise. I put in about 300ml each of cream and whole milk in a pan, and when it was warm I lobbed in a small bar of DM which melted nicely. Except I singed the milk every so slightly so it sort of tasted a bit like dulce de leche, which isn’t a bad thing but not really chocolatey. No worries, my wife doesn’t like actual chocolate ice cream anyway.
Whisked 3 egg yolks with 100g sugar, then poured in the hot milk and put it back in the pan. Heated it up very gingerly because I’ve always scrambled the eggs in the past trying to make custard, but it went well. Still tastes like dulce de leche. Then, because it was evening and we’re impatient, I cooled it to about 2-3C using an ice bath. Lots of opportunities for a bit of science talk with my daughter.
Chucked it in the mixer and it worked out pretty well – churned until it was like a McDonald’s milkshake but the consistency of soft serve, then in the freezer. Just gave some to my daughter and it’s the right consistency – quite hard but scoopable, I’ve definitely had harder from the shops.
Next time I’m going to try just plain vanilla, I’ll also give it a try with less cream and/or fewer/no eggs.
