Nutty Buddies
These nutty buddies will make you popular among your friends but, when it's time to do the dishes, you'll find out who your real buddies are.
Yield: 4 servings
Ingredients
Ice Cream
- 2 cups Half-and-Half or milk
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1 vanilla bean
- 7 egg yolks
Nutty Buddy Coating
- 16 ounces semi-sweet chocolate
- 2 cups shelled, unsalted peanuts
- 8 waffle cones
- 1 good buddy (to taste)
Instructions
- Make the ice cream. Slit vanilla bean lengthwise and scrape the seeds into a medium saucepan. Add the vanilla bean pod, half-and- half, cream and place over medium heat. Bring to a simmer and reduce the heat to low, stirring often.
- Combine the sugar and the egg yolks in a mixing bowl and whisk until very thick and pale, at least 3 minutes.
- Slowly whisk a cup or so of the hot cream mixture into the egg yolk mixture, then whisk the yolk mixture back into the saucepan as slowly as possible.
- Return the saucepan to a medium-low heat and cook, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon.
- Remove any lumps that might have formed by straining the hot custard through a fine strainer into a clean stainless steel bowl. Transfer any vanilla pods trapped in the strainer back into the custard. Place the bowl of custard into a larger bowl of ice water to chill the mixture as quickly as possible, stirring occasionally.
- Transfer the chilled mixture to your ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. (Allow 30 to 40 minutes.)
- Ask your buddy nicely to crank the machine while you slowly melt the chocolate in a bowl over boiling water and chop the nuts. (Isn't it great to have a best friend?)
- Once the ice cream is dense, creamy and silky smooth, drizzle a tablespoon of melted chocolate into each waffle cone followed by an extremely firm scoop of vanilla ice cream.
- Carefully dip each cone first into the melted chocolate; then immediately into the chopped peanuts. Repeat if desired.
Attribution
Posted by LladyRusty at recipegoldmine.com.
Source: featured during the presentation of Best Friends during TBS Superstation's Dinner & a Movie
