Butterfinger Cashew Crunch Ice Cream
2 cup Heavy Whipping Cream
2 cup Milk
2 tbl Cold water
3 Rennet tablets
1 cup Sugar
4 tsp Vanilla extract
1/2 cup Cashew nuts (broken ones are fine)
6 Trick-or-treat size Butterfinger candy bars
3/4 cup French Toast Crunch breakfast cereal
Dissolve rennet tablets in water (swirl the bowl until dissolved),
set aside. Combine cream, milk, sugar, and vanilla in saucepan and
heat stirring constantly to 110 degrees. Pour into the ice cream
freezer machine, then add the rennet tablet solution and operate the
churn for five or ten seconds to mix well. Turn off the churn and
let that cool for a while.
Take the butterfinger bars (still in their wrappers) and bludgeon
them with the flat handle of a knife to crush the contents well.
Open the wrappers and dump/scrape the crushed contents into your
food processor (with metal blade). Add the cashews and the breakfast
cereal, and pulse the food processor until the dry ingredients are
just broken up and well mixed.
By now the custard should be set and cooled off somewhat. Turn on
the ice cream maker's refrigeration switch and, after a few minutes,
the churn.
When the ice cream mixture is just starting to freeze, pour in the
crushed dry ingredients and continue to freeze to the desired
consistency. This will vary depending on your freezer, but for me it
takes about 25-35 minutes.
This is a really scrumptious combination, and could be varied by
changing the flavoring ingredients with other stuff you have around. |