Hazelnut Truffle Ice Cream Recipe

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Hazelnut Truffle Ice Cream
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Ingredients:

  • 1 cup hazelnuts
  • deep, dark chocolate sauce (prepared using semisweet chocolate not bittersweet chocolate)
  • 6 tbsp frangelico or other hazelnut-flavor liqueur
  • 2 tbsp corn syrup
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 large eggs
  • 2 tsp vanilla

Directions:

  1. In a 350° oven, bake 1 cup hazelnuts in an 8- or 9-inch square pan until nuts are golden beneath skins, about 12 minutes. Pour nuts onto a towel and rub to remove loose skins. Discard skins and let nuts cool. Coarsely chop 1/2 cup nuts.
  2. Prepare Deep, Dark Chocolate Sauce. Pour sauce into a blender and add whole hazelnuts, Frangelico, and corn syrup. Whirl until chocolate truffle sauce is very smoothly puréed.
  3. Return chocolate truffle sauce to pan and nest pan in ice water. Stir often until sauce is cold, about 20 minutes. Scrape into chilled bowl (see notes) and freeze while making ice cream.
  4. In a 2- to 3-quart pan, combine sugar and half-and-half. Stir over high heat until bubbles form at pan edge (scalding, about 180°), 5 to 8 minutes.
  5. In a small bowl, whisk eggs to blend. Then whisk about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture into eggs. Return egg mixture to pan and stir over medium-low heat with a flexible spatula-scraper, scraping pan bottom and sides thoroughly for even cooking, until custard thickly coats a metal spoon (about 190°), 8 to 10 minutes.
  6. Add vanilla to custard.
  7. At once, nest pan in ice water and stir custard often until mixture is cold, 10 to 15 minutes.
  8. Pour cold custard through a fine strainer into a bowl, then pour mixture into an ice cream maker (1-qt. or larger capacity), or strain directly into the maker; discard residue. Add reserved chopped nuts to cold custard in ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions until mixture is firm enough to scoop, dasher is hard to turn, or machine stops.
  9. When ice cream is frozen, remove bowl with truffle sauce from freezer. Stir sauce briefly to soften, then quickly scoop ice cream into bowl. With a flexible spatula-scraper, swirl chocolate through ice cream, using 4 or 5 strokes.
  10. Return to freezer for at least 3 hours to firm. Package airtight if storing longer (see below).
  11. Firming and Storing Ice Cream:
  12. To get frozen desserts hard enough to scoop onto a cone, or to store them, transfer when frozen to an airtight container and put in the freezer at least 3 hours or up to 1 week.
  13. If freezing with ice and salt, leave the frozen dessert in ice and salt up to 3 hours.
  14. For best flavor and texture, serve frozen desserts within a week. On longer standing, icy crystals develop.
  15. Nutritional analysis per 1/2 cup.
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Nutrition Facts

Per ServingPer 100 g
Amount Per 1 Serving
Calories 2359.85 Kcal (9880 kJ)
Calories from fat 1505.43 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 167.27g 257%
Cholesterol 640.62mg 214%
Sodium 504.22mg 21%
Potassium 1895.63mg 40%
Total Carbs 182.54g 61%
Sugars 125.09g 500%
Dietary Fiber 11.5g 46%
Protein 52.03g 104%
Vitamin C 14.2mg 24%
Iron 7.8mg 43%
Calcium 958.4mg 96%
Amount Per 100 g
Calories 202.01 Kcal (846 kJ)
Calories from fat 128.87 Kcal
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 14.32g 257%
Cholesterol 54.84mg 214%
Sodium 43.16mg 21%
Potassium 162.27mg 40%
Total Carbs 15.63g 61%
Sugars 10.71g 500%
Dietary Fiber 0.98g 46%
Protein 4.45g 104%
Vitamin C 1.2mg 24%
Iron 0.7mg 43%
Calcium 82mg 96%

* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet. Your daily values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Tastes

  • salty
  • savory
  • bitter
  • sweet
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Weightwatchers Points

  • 60.3
    Points
  • 67
    PointsPlus

Good Points

  • saturated fat free,
  • low sodium

Bad Points

  • High in Sodium,
  • High in Sugar,
  • High in Total Fat

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