Monday, July 19, 2010

Mint Ice Cream


My top three flavors of ice cream are: Mint Chocolate Chip, Pumpkin and Coffee. If I am at Baskin and Robbins it would be Jamocha Almond Fudge. But I haven't been there in, oh 15 years or so. One of these days I am going to make some Jamocha Almond Fudge myself.

This Mint Ice Cream is based on the King of Ice Cream, David Lebovitz. His Ice Cream book is definitely on my wish list. I did change up his recipe just a bit.

Mint Ice Cream
inspired and largely based on David Lebovitz recipe found here.

2 cups Half and Half
1 cup heavy cream
5 egg yolks
3/4 sugar
pinch of salt
1 cup mint leaves*
2 tablespoons Creme de Menthe

Heat half and half, mint and salt in a heavy saucepan until it is just boiling.  Remove from heat and cover.  Let the mixture sit for at least an hour.  Pour the mixture through a sieve to remove mint leaves.  Squeeze them out to make sure you extract as much of the flavor as you can.

In a large bowl combine yolks, heavy cream and sugar.  Heat milk again to boiling.  Remove from heat and ladle the cream into the yolks, whisking briskly to prevent the yolks from cooking.  Once the mixture has been added to the yolks, return it to the pan and heat untilt he mixture thickens.  Remove from heat and put in an ice bath and chill in the fridge overnight.

Pour Creme de Menthe in during the churning process.  Freeze according to manufacturers instructions.

*Note: Last year I made mint ice cream from mint that just tasted terrible. All mint is not created equal. Taste it first and make sure it is the kind of mint you want in your ice cream.

8 comments:

vanillasugarblog said...

girl where's the choco bits? LOL

Avril said...

I LOVE LOVE LOVE D.L. - he is great! Would love to meet him in person sometime in my life. :-)

You did a great job on making this ice cream! I want some!!!!

kat said...

Its such a pretty color. When I made mint ice cream with fresh mint it turned out a weird grey green

Murasaki Shikibu said...

This would be perfect for the kind of weather we're having here. It's 25C right now but temperatures can soar to 34C during the day! Love your comment about how we need to be careful about the mint. There are lots of different varieties of mint after all and maybe the soil can make a difference too.

grace said...

i can't think of a time when i ate mint ice cream with no chocolate chips. i'm sure i'd like it, but it's different--good thinking!

Ingrid_3Bs said...

I have that book. I've made more of his recipes after seeing them on blogs than out of his book. Actually that's the case with every cookbook I have; all 175 plus. (Yes, I know. I don't watch TV and I can only be on the computer so long. It could be worse it could be shoes and Coach purses. Yes, my honey knows. He's of the opinion "if Mama's happy everyone's happy!" :) ) If you lived closer I would totally let you borrow mine.

That's funny that everyone is looking for the chocolate and I'm thinking... Oooo, yay no chocolate. LOL
~ingrid
~ingrid

Barbara Bakes said...

Mint chocolate chip is one of my favorites too. Good tip on choosing a mint. This looks smooth and creamy.

Mimi said...

You are so right on the mint, I used spearmint from the garden in ice cream, while I loved it my kids totally rejected it.They like peppermint.
Mimi