Billionaire’S Bacon Coffee Ice Cream
- 4 slices of bacon
- 1 cup light brown sugar
- 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1 1/2 cups whole milk
- 2 whole eggs
- 3 egg yolks
- 1/2 cup espresso or very strong coffee, room temperature
- 1/2 teaspoon espresso or finely ground coffee grounds
- Preheat oven to 425u0b0 F. Put 1/4 cup brown sugar onto a plate or wide dish. Coat both sides of bacon by pressing each strip firmly into the sugar. Sprinkle with bacon with up to 1/2 teaspoon of black pepper. Lay bacon out on a sheet pans covered with parchment paper (to aid in clean-up). Cook bacon in a preheated oven, turning once, about 15 minutes until browned and lacquered. Allow to cool.
- Combine eggs, yolks, coffee, coffee grounds and 3/4 cup brown sugar in a bowl and mix thoroughly with a whisk or electric beater. Heat milk and cream in a medium saucepan, but do not let them boil, just "scald" it until it is near the boiling point - a thin skin may form on the surface. Remove from heat and very slowly pour in 1 cup of the hot milk mixture into the egg mixture and beat rapidly with a whisk.
- Then pour the egg-milk mixture into the saucepan with the remaining milk mixture while beating. Return the mixture to medium low heat, stirring constantly for a few more minutes to thicken the mixture. When it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, turn off the heat.
- Pour ice cream mixture into a bowl and cover with plastic wrap placed directly on the surface of the liquid and refrigerate until completely cool. Then, pour mixture into ice cream maker (we use a Krups "La Glaciere") and follow your machine's directions for how long it should churn.
- Crumble the slices of Billionaire's bacon and add to the ice cream machine during the last minutes of churning. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze for 2 hours before serving. Garnish dish with another piece of Billionaire's bacon and a pinch of black pepper or espresso powder.
bacon, light brown sugar, freshly ground black pepper, heavy cream, milk, eggs, egg yolks, espresso, espresso
Taken from food52.com/recipes/11343-billionaire-s-bacon-coffee-ice-cream (may not work)