Dessert

White chocolate and chilli ice-cream with tropical fruit

Name: White chocolate and chilli ice-cream with tropical fruit
Prep time: 240 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 255 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: 300ml thin cream; 1 cinnamon stick; 4 egg yolks; 85g caster sugar; 100g white chocolate, finely chopped; 2 small red chillies, seeds removed; 2 small green chillies, seeds removed; 1 small yellow chilli, seeds removed; 300ml thick cream; 1/4 cup (60ml) Malibu; Fresh tropical fruit, to serve

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White chocolate & chilli ice-cream with tropical fruit

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Give white chocolate ice-cream a bit of a kick with chilli and coconut rum.

300ml thin cream
1 cinnamon stick
4 egg yolks
85g caster sugar
100g white chocolate, finely chopped
2 small red chillies, seeds removed
2 small green chillies, seeds removed
1 small yellow chilli, seeds removed
300ml thick cream
1/4 cup (60ml) Malibu
Fresh tropical fruit, to serve

Method

1.

Heat the thin cream and cinnamon stick in a saucepan to scalding point. Set aside to infuse for 30 minutes. Beat the egg yolks and 50g sugar until pale, then add the chocolate. Remove the cinnamon stick from cream and discard. Reheat the cream until hot, then stir into the chocolate mixture until the chocolate melts. Return to pan and cook, stirring, over low heat until slightly thickened. Don't boil. Cool, then refrigerate until cold.
2.

Finely chop a green and a red chilli. Whip the cream, then fold into chocolate mixture with the Malibu and chopped chillies. Pour the mixture into a shallow container and freeze until frozen at edges. Remove from the freezer, beat with an electric beater, pour back into container and re-freeze. Repeat 2 or 3 times. (Alternatively use an ice-cream machine following manufacturer's directions.)
3.

Cut the remaining chillies into very thin strips. Place the remaining sugar in a pan with 1/2 cup water and stir over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Add the strips of chilli, cook for 5 minutes or until the chilli is sticky and caramelised, then cool. Garnish the ice-cream with the chilli and serve with fresh tropical fruit.