Ugandan Vanilla, Caramel, Pecan & Peanut Ice Cream Bars
Author: Tristan Rousselot
Servings: 10 each

Ingredients:

CARAMEL AND UGANDAN VANILLA-FLAVORED ICE CREAM BASE

  • 2ea PROVA Gourmet Uganda Vanilla Beans
  • 565g Whole Milk
  • 144g Caster Sugar
  • 59g Butter
  • 33g Whipping Cream
  • 89g Egg Yolk
  • 56g Skim Milk Powder
  • 37g Atomized Glucose 21 DE
  • 2g Stabilizer
  • 7g Caster Sugar

DOUBLE VANILLA SOFT CARAMEL

  • 1ea PROVA Gourmet Uganda Vanilla Bean
  • 136g Whipping Cream
  • 66g Caster Sugar
  • 46g Glucose Syrup
  • 0.4g Fleur de Sel
  • 13g Milk Chocolate Couverture 38%
  • 6g PROVA Gourmet Fusion Vanilla
  • 30g Butter

FUSION VANILLA MILK CHOCOLATE COATING

  • 623g Blond Compound Coating
  • 246g Milk Chocolate Couverture 38%
  • 36g PROVA Gourmet Fusion Vanilla
  • 94g Grapeseed Oil

DECORATION

  • 100g Peanuts
  • 100g Pecans

Directions:

CARAMEL AND UGANDAN VANILLA-FLAVORED ICE CREAM BASE

  • 1. The day before, split vanilla beans and scrape out the seeds. Add to milk and bring to a simmer. Cool and leave to infuse overnight.
  • 2. Caramelize the first amount of caster sugar until brown in color. Meanwhile, combine butter and cream in a sauce pot and bring to a boil. Pour into caramelized sugar to stop cooking process.
  • 3. Add mixture to infused milk and return to the heat. At 86°F, add the atomized glucose. At 113°F, add the yolks and milk powder. At 122°F, add the second amount of sugar and stabilizer.
  • 4. Bring mixture to 185°F. Mix, then straight the mixture through a chinois. Allow to mature overnight, or for a minimum of 4 hours, in a refrigerator.
  • 5. Mix and strain through a chinois and churn.

DOUBLE VANILLA SOFT CARAMEL

  • 1. The day before, split vanilla beans and scrape out the seeds. Add to cream and bring to a simmer. Cool and leave to infuse overnight.
  • 2. Cook the sugar until you obtain a dry caramel. Meanwhile, combine infused cream, glucose, and fleur de sel and bring to a boil. Pour into dry caramel to stop cooking process.
  • 3. Return mixture to the heat and bring to 223°F and remove from heat. When it cools to 140°F make an emulsion with the milk chocolate couverture and Fusion Vanilla. Once it cools to 104°F, incorporate salted butter. Refrigerate for 48 hours before using. Place in piping bag without a tip.

FUSION VANILLA MILK CHOCOLATE COATING

  • 1. Melt the compound coating, milk Chocolate couverture, and Fusion vanilla together. Add grapeseed oil and mix.

DECORATION

  • 1. Roast peanuts and pecans at 320°F for 20 minutes, stirring halfway through cooking time. Chill.

ASSEMBLY

  • 1. Mold the just churned caramel ice cream in frozen silicone ice cream bar molds, smooth them and insert the ice cream sticks.
  • 2. On the exposed side, add pieces of peanuts and pecans. Then pipe on some dots of caramel and freeze them.
  • 3. Remove ice creams from the molds and coat them with the Fusion Vanilla milk chocolate coating.