(by Shirley McNevich)
good quality ice cream (your choice of flavor)
1/2 cup butter
2 cups Nestle's semi-sweet chocolate chips OR milk chocolate chips
6 TBSP milk
toothpicks
sea salt
Line a cookie sheet with foil and place it in the freezer to get it cold (about an hour). Remove cookie sheet from freezer. Soften ice cream just a bit. Use a cookie dough scoop to scoop an ice cream ball (golf ball sized) from the pint of ice cream, then place it on the cold cookie sheet and stick a toothpick down through the center of the ice cream balls. Repeat with more ice cream. Place the cookie sheet back in the freezer for 5 hours or until ice cream balls are solid. In a saucepan over low heat add the butter and chocolate chips--cook/stir until melted and smooth. Remove from heat--add the milk--stir to mix. Cool the mixture to room temperature, then stir again. Remove cookie sheet from the freezer. Pick up one ice cream ball by the toothpick and coat it in the chocolate mixture, set it back on the cookie sheet and twist the toothpick to remove it. Get a little extra chocolate on the end of the used toothpick and spread it over the hole where the toothpick was removed. Sprinkle a little sea salt over the coated ice cream ball. Repeat with all ice cream balls, then return the cookie sheet to the freezer until ice cream balls are firm. Note: you have to work quickly. If you notice the ice cream balls starting to melt before you have a chance to coat them, put the whole tray back in the freezer for an hour, then try again OR you can just remove one ice cream ball from the freezer at a time, coat it, and immediately place it back on the tray in the freezer.
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