Salted Caramel Ice Cream

Cooking method

1. Step 1:

   

   How do you make salted caramel ice cream? First, make the caramel sauce. How do you make the sauce? Put 60 g of the sugar into a heavy-bottomed pan, set it over medium heat, and start warming it. Stir occasionally with a wooden spoon until the sugar begins to melt. As soon as it does, stop stirring; swirl the pan by its handle 2–3 times as it goes, until the caramel turns amber.

2. Step 2:

   

   Pour 120 ml of warm cream into the caramel and gently stir the mixture with a wooden spatula. The contents of the pan will bubble up hard, so work very carefully to avoid burns. Cook the caramel sauce until the caramel has fully dissolved into the cream, then take the pan off the heat. Add the salt, stir gently, and leave the caramel to cool.

3. Step 3:

   

   Now get started on the ice cream itself. In a saucepan, combine the remaining heavy cream (300 ml) and 25 g of the sugar. Stir the ingredients together. Set the saucepan over the heat, bring the mixture to a boil, and immediately take it off the heat. Whisk the yolks with the rest of the sugar (25 g) and a little vanilla. The whites aren't used in this recipe — you can make meringue from them.

4. Step 4:

   

   Next, in several additions (at least 3–4), pour the freshly whisked yolk mixture into the hot cream, stirring everything in the saucepan together each time. Set the saucepan with the cream mixture back over the heat and, stirring constantly, cook for a few minutes. Important: the contents of the saucepan must never come to a boil. For this it's best to use a cooking thermometer — the finished mixture should reach 185°F (85°C).

5. Step 5:

   

   Strain the resulting mixture through a sieve.

6. Step 6:

   

   Stir the mixture together with the homemade salted caramel and let it cool. Then transfer the ice cream to a container and put it in the freezer. Take the container out every so often and stir the contents — this helps prevent ice crystals from forming. Keep doing this until the ice cream is fully set. Serve the ice cream. Enjoy!