Bacon And Maple Ice Cream With Caramel Apple Tart

• 2 cups brown sugar
• 7 ounces bacon slices double smoked
• 3 cups half & half
• 3 ounces brown sugar
• 1/4 vanilla beans each
• 1 3/4 ounces maple syrup pure grade a
• 6 egg yolks each
• 4 ounces bacon fat rendered
• 4 ounces butter unsalted
• 4 ounces confectioners sugar
• 1/2 ounce whole egg
• 1/2 ounce egg yolks
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 13 ounces all-purpose flour
• 5 granny smith apples each, peeled, cored, diced
• 3 ounces sugar granulated
• 3 ounces brown sugar
• 2 ounces butter
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tablespoon cinnamon ground
• 2 fluidounces cognac or brandy
• 7 ounces sugar granulated
• 1 gram karo syrup
• 6 fluidounces glucose
• 8 fluidounces 40% manufacturing cream
• 1 1/2 ounces butter unsalted
• 7 fluidounces caramels
• 2 ounces tapioca maltodextrin
• 3 ounces bacon fat rendered
• 3 ounces tapioca maltodextrin

1. Toss bacon with brown sugar (coat)
2. Put bacon on silpats to bake at 325u0b0F for 15 to 20 minutes or until golden and caramelized
3. Save bacon fat for dough, strain through the china cap
4. Chop cooked bacon & pour half & half over bacon.
5. Add vanilla bean, bring to a boil, let steep for 20 minutes
6. Mix eggs yolks, sugar & maple syrup together until sugar dissolves, slowly temper half & half mixture over egg yolks, whisking to make sure the eggs don't scramble.
7. Pour back into pot, cook until 170u0b0F, strain through china cap, put into ice bath to cool.
8. Add to ice cream machine & churn.
9. Blend the fats (bacon fat and unsalted butter) with sugar and salt, on low speed
10. Add the egg, yolks, then vanilla. Add flour last
11. All at once mix only until incorporated. Dough forms Don't over mix
12. Roll out dough, put into tart shell & blind bake until light golden about 15 minutes at 325u0b0F.
13. Place butter in saute pan, add apples, sugar and cinnamon, cook over low heat until apples are soft and liquid for apples has evaporated.
14. Fill tart shells.
15. Cook sugar and glucose to caramel color
16. Add cream and butter mix to well combine
17. Stir reserve for latter use.
18. Mix in food processor, set aside.
19. Mix together until a powder is formed, set aside.
20. Put caramel sauce on plate, top tart with caramel topping, put tart on plate, scoop ice cream and put onto top of tart, add bacon powder around edge of plate and top with sweet bacon for garnish.

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Taken from www.yummly.com/recipe/Bacon-and-Maple-Ice-Cream-With-Caramel-Apple-Tart-2271802 (may not work)