Fire and Ice Cake
- Wooden Skewers
- 3 roasted habanero peppers
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- Vanilla ice cream, softened
- Baked chocolate cake, sliced horizontally in 3 layers
- Lime sorbet
- Powdered sugar, whipped cream or sprinkles, for garnish
- The habanero peppers can be roasted on a gas stove top or in an oven.
- Before roasting the peppers, turn on the kitchen or stove exhaust fan.
- To roast the peppers on a gas stove top, soak 3 wooden skewers in water until saturated.
- Skewer 1 pepper and hold over a medium-high flame.
- Slowly rotate the pepper over the flame until the skin is blackened and blistered.
- Repeat with the remaining peppers and skewers.
- After each pepper is roasted place in plastic bag covered with a dish towel to steam, which will help to remove the skins.
- To roast the peppers in the oven, place an oven rack in the highest position and preheat the broiler.
- Put the peppers on a cookie sheet and place under the broiler.
- Using long handled metal tongs to rotate the peppers and broil until the skin is blackened and blistered.
- After each pepper is roasted place in plastic bag covered with a dish towel to steam, which will help to remove the skins.
- Wearing gloves, remove skin, the veins, and the seeds from the habaneros.
- (When removing the skins, it's important to wear double layer of latex gloves or else your hands burn.)
- To make the paste, blend the habaneros with the sugar using a mortar and pestle or a food processor (the latter is much faster).
- Combine the habanero paste into the softened vanilla ice cream and refreeze until firm but still spreadable
- Assemble cake in springform pan by alternating cake, lime sorbet, cake, habanero ice cream, cake and freeze until firm (8 hours or overnight).
- Garnish with powered sugar or whipped cream and sprinkles.
skewers, peppers, sugar, vanilla ice cream, chocolate cake, sorbet, powdered sugar
Taken from www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/warren-brown/fire-and-ice-cake-recipe.html (may not work)