Fried Ice Cream

Fried Ice Cream



A dessert which has always created a curiosity in me! How can someone fry ice creams? I always doubted if it would melt and make a mess when dipped in sizzling oil. But to my surprise this worked out well. This recipe for the Mexican fried ice cream is a foolproof method and is tried and tested at home. The scooped ice cream is breaded and then deep fried. I have illustrated two ways of coating them, you can use any of those as both works perfect. I am attaching pictures below for each step wherever possible. You can use the recipe for homemade vanilla ice cream (below) or can use store brought ice creams too.Please do try and taste this hot crispy coated cold ice cream! 

Ingredients

• Ice cream of any flavour: 1 large scoop for each serving
• Bread slices: 2 per serving or Bread crumbs to coat the ice cream
• Egg: 1 beaten ( if coating with bread crumbs)
• Oil to deep fry

Method

1. Scoop out large scoops of ice cream and keep it in an open plate in the freezer for 2 hours
2. Cut the edges of 2 bread slices and flatten them with a rolling pin and keep ready 
3.  Take out the ice cream from the freezer and quickly place it in the middle of 1 slice of the flattened bread and cover it with the other slice and press tightly to form a ball. put it back in the freezer for 30 minutes
4. If using the bread crumbs then dip the hard frozen scoop of ice cream in beaten egg and quickly coat it with bread crumbs ( just like we do it for cutlets) and put it back in freezer for 30 minutes
5. Deep fry the breaded ice cream for less than a minute on high flame so that the bread/bread crumbs is browned but ice cream stays intact 



The ice cream covered in both methods:  bread crumbs and the whole flattened bread

Hot out of the oil

6. Serve hot with chocolate sauce

 

Note: You can use the whole breaded method if you prefer a thick coating of bread on the ice cream and the bread crumbs method if you like that crunch like a cutlet. Out of the two methods I personally found coating with the crumbs to be easier than the whole bread method but both worked good.

Two Ingredient vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients

• Whipping Cream: 300 ml
• Sweet Condensed milk: 200 Gms
• Vanilla Extract : 1 Tsp

Method

Add all the ingredients to a mixing bowl and beat with an electric beater until stiff peaks are formed (almost 3-5 Minutes). Transfer the mixture to a freezer safe container and freeze overnight. Scoop and enjoy!!

Happy dessert time!!

Shabana