Relive your childhood with these deep-fried ice creams
Prep
15m
Cook
15m
serves
6
Deep-fried ice creams
We created this dessert to honour the great Scottish food tradition of deep-frying anything and everything. People’s uniformly happy reactions are proof that sometimes the simple things in life are the best… deep-fried!
We use toffee and vanilla-flavoured ice creams that are coated in crushed honeycomb biscuits and sold impaled on a wooden popsicle-stick. If you can’t find anything similar, ice-cream sandwich bars work well, as long as they are not choc-coated.
This recipe an extract from James Wirth's cookbook, This could get messy: A guide to eating. To drinking. To doing both at the same time.
Ingredients (9)
- 250 g (9 oz) packet of arrowroot milk biscuits (cookies)
- 4 eggs, beaten
- 2 tablespoons milk
- 110 g (3 3/4 oz/3/4 cup) plain (all-purpose) flour, sifted
- Vegetable oil, for deep-frying
- 6 ice creams on wooden popsicle-sticks (or 6 ice-cream sandwich bars plus 6 wooden popsicle-sticks), frozen as long as possible in the coldest part of the freezer
- Hundreds and thousands, for sprinkling
Chocolate sauce
- 125 ml (4 fl oz/1/2 cup) thin (pouring) cream
- 40 g (1 1/2 oz) dark chocolate (70% cocoa), bashed into small pieces
Don't forget you can add these ingredients to your Woolworths shopping list.
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1.Using a food processor, blitz the biscuits into fine crumbs. Tip them into a bowl and set aside.
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2.In another bowl, lightly beat the eggs, then whisk in the milk. Put the flour in a third bowl. Set aside.
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3.To make the chocolate sauce, pour the cream into a saucepan and gently bring up to the boil. Turn off the heat and whisk in the chocolate until smooth and silky. Set aside.
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4.Fill a deep-fryer or large heavy-based saucepan one-third full of vegetable oil. Heat over medium heat until it reaches 180ºC (350ºF) when tested with a cooking thermometer, or until a cube of bread dropped into the oil turns golden brown in 15 seconds.
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5.Once the oil has reached a constant temperature, remove the ice creams from the freezer. Working quickly, take off their wrappers. (If using ice cream bars, quickly impale each one on a wooden popsicle-stick, to make them easier to handle during coating and deep-frying.) Dust them in the flour, then the egg mixture, then into the crushed biscuits, ensuring the ice creams are evenly coated.
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6.Carefully lower each ice cream into the deep-fryer and fry for 45 seconds to 1 minute, or until golden; you may need to cook them in two batches. Remove directly to serving plates. Spoon on some chocolate sauce, sprinkle with hundreds and thousands and serve immediately.
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