6 Children's party
Use bright, cheerful colours to decorate
children's ice cream. Choose flavours that
children love.
For decoration, use whipped cream or ready-to-
serve vanilla custard, chocolate custard or fruit
yogurt.
Decorate the ice cream with chocolate sprinkles,
hundreds-and-thousands, sugar flowers, wafers
or small chocolates.
Below are some tasty serving suggestions:
1 Banana or vanilla ice cream with chocolate
custard
2 Chocolate ice cream with chopped nuts
3 Strawberry ice cream with marshmallows
4 Vanilla ice cream on a slice of cake served
with fruit sauce.
5 Crêpes filled with fruit ice cream and sprinkled
with icing sugar
7 Recipes
7.0.1 Basic ice cream
Ingredients:
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3 egg yolks
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100g (4oz) caster sugar
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10g (0.4oz) vanilla sugar
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250ml (8.3fl.oz) whole milk
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200ml (6.6fl.oz) whipping cream
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Beat the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar until
frothy. Add the milk while stirring constantly.
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Whip the cream until almost stiff. Combine
the whipped cream with the other ingredients.
Make sure that all ingredients are thoroughly
mixed.
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Switch on the ice cream maker and pour the
mixture into the cooling bowl.
Preparation time: 40-50 minutes.
Tips:
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You can combine the basic ice cream with:
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40g (1.6oz) chopped walnuts, hazelnuts or
peanuts
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40g (1.6oz) chopped candied fruit
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40g (1.6oz) coarsely chopped chocolate
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8g (0.3oz) cinnamon
If you want to add ingredients, add them to the
mixture halfway through the preparation time.
However, cinnamon can already be mixed with
the egg yolks.
7.0.2 Coupe Dame Blanche
(serves 4-5 persons)
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Basic ice cream
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4-5 coupes
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4-5 wafers
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hot chocolate sauce (see chapter 'Sauces')
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Use an ice cream scoop to create ice cream
balls and put 2 or 3 balls in each coupe. Pour
equal quantities of the hot chocolate sauce
over the ice cream. Serve immediately.
7.0.3 Strawberry ice cream
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200g (7oz) fresh strawberries
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90g (3.6oz) caster sugar
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1 egg yolk
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1 tbsp lemon juice
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225ml (7.5fl.oz) whole milk
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100ml (3.3fl.oz) whipping cream
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Wash the strawberries. Puree them together
with the lemon juice, the milk, the sugar and
the egg yolk. Combine the strawberry mixture
with the cream. Make sure that all ingredients
are thoroughly mixed.
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Switch on the ice cream maker and pour the
mixture into the cooling bowl.
Preparation time: 35-45 minutes.