Butter Pecan Ice Cream
- Ready In:
- 50mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
-
8
ingredients
- 1⁄2 cup butter
- 1 1⁄2 cups pecan halves
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 2 eggs
- 3⁄4 cup sugar
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup milk
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
directions
- Melt butter in sauce pan over medium heat.
- Add pecans and cook until butter froths and pecans become fragrant. Stir constantly and be sure to watch that they don't burn. Should be about 5-7 minutes.
- Remove pecans to another bowl and set aside. Remove pan with remaining butter from heat and set aside to cool.
- Put cream and milk in a heavy bottom sauce pan over medium low heat and cook, stirring often, until it reaches a slow simmer.
- While cream mixture is cooking, whisk eggs in a medium bowl for about 2 minutes. Add sugar slowly and whisk for another 1 minute.
- Temper the egg mixture by adding a fourth of the simmering cream, whisking constantly. Add the remaining cream in a slow stream, whisking constantly. Return entire mixture to sauce pan and cook over medium low heat, stirring often, until it reaches a temperature of 170 degrees. Turn off burner and add the vanilla and reserved butter. Stir or whisk well.
- Put mixture in a shallow bowl, cover, and let cool to room temperature. Once cool, put in fridge for an hour or two.
- Pour mixture into the container of ice cream maker and freeze according to maker's directions.
- After about 10 minutes in the ice cream maker, when ice cream is starting to firm up, add the pecans. Continue freezing to desired consistency.
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