Before it gets too cold to enjoy ice cream I thought I had better post these two recipes that we tried over summer – fig and apple pie (not together).
The fig ice cream came about because of the abundance of figs on the tree that hangs over the neighbours fence. Last year I made fig jam (which I still have a lot of!), but this year I thought I would make ice cream and let Oscar try it, as figs are on the list of foods we are currently re-introducing. Oscar did eat it, but found it too sweet. It was very sweet, as warned on the David Lebovitz recipe I adapted it from, but oh so yummy.
The apple pie ice cream was more acceptable. I got the idea from trawling the net for ice cream flavour ideas, when I came across this recipe from Brown Eyed Baker. The concept is that it tastes like apple pie filling and crunchy pie crust crumbs. This was my favourite of the summer, although because I used a lower fat recipe for the ice cream it went hard the next day, and after churning it made a lot more ice cream than I had expected. Pears could be quite easily substituted for the apples to make a Failsafe / Low Chemical recipe.
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