Christmas Pudding Icecream?

Lorian

I'd like Christmas pudding ice cream instead of christmas pudding this year.

Is there a good (luxury) source I can buy?

Or a tried and tested receipe to make?

I've never made ice cream, maybe it's too much trouble?

I'mcomingbackasaman

On Saturday Kitchen this a.m James Martin made christmas pudding filo parcel you might like, they looked very tasty. (All the recipes are on BBC website under Saturday kitchen)

Ingredients
For the parcels
500g/18oz vanilla ice cream
450g/1lb ready-made Christmas pudding, cooked
12 sheets ready-made filo
50g/2oz butter, melted
3 tbsp icing sugar
For the brandy sauce
200ml/7fl oz double cream
600ml/1 pint whole milk
25g/1oz cornflour, mixed with 4 tbsp cold water
50g/2oz granulated sugar
50g/2oz unsalted butter
3-4 tbsp brandy


Method
1. Preheat the oven to 240C/465F/Gas 9.
2. Scoop the ice cream into six balls, place them onto a baking sheet and place in the freezer until ready to use.
3. Scoop out a handful of Christmas pudding and place between two pieces of cling film. Using a rolling pin, flatten the pudding out to about 1cm/½in thick. Repeat to create six pudding sheets.
4. Remove the top sheet of cling film from the flattened Christmas pudding and place one of the frozen ice cream balls into the centre. Draw the pudding around the ice cream to cover totally, then place back in the freezer. Repeat with the remaining ice cream balls and pudding to create six pudding parcels.
5. Lay one sheet of filo pastry onto a clean work surface and brush with melted butter. Place one of the frozen pudding balls into the centre and draw up the filo pastry around the pudding ball and seal over. Brush another sheet with butter and use this to enclose the pudding ball in a second layer of filo. Return to the freezer and repeat this wrapping process with the remaining filo sheets, melted butter and pudding balls.
6. Place the pudding filo parcels onto a baking tray and dust with icing sugar.
Transfer to the oven and bake for 8-10 minutes, or until the filo is golden and crisp.
7. While the puddings are cooking, make the brandy sauce. Place the cream and milk into a saucepan and bring to the boil.
8. Stir in the cornflour solution and return to the boil, stirring constantly to thicken.
9. Remove from the heat and add the sugar and butter, continuing to stir until the butter has melted and the sugar has completely dissolved.
10. Add the brandy and stir again.
11. To serve, place a pudding parcel into a bowl and pour over the brandy sauce.

*flutterby*

Here it is... Any exceuse for me to look at James Martin!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/christmaspuddingandi_84879.shtml

andi2

I don't know whereabouts you are, but if you're anywhere near Snugburys their ice-cream is gorgeous.

Their Christmas flavour is Christmas Pie (but they mean Christmas Pudding!)

http://www.snugburys.co.uk/flavours.htm

mmm... I can feel a trip to their farm coming on :>))

I'mcomingbackasaman

*flutterby* wrote:

Here it is... Any exceuse for me to look at James Martin!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/christmaspuddingandi_84879.shtml

I'm with you on that one Flutterby :j:j

earthmother

Try any local delis or farm shops - I know of at least two near me that I can get it from, and I'd imagine it's the same all over the country.

lil_me

I seen those filo ones, they looked as tasty as James (yum yum)

gartcott

This comes from one of the Aust. Women's Weekly cookbooks - very rich and certainly NOT moneysaving! I made it some years ago and it was very good.

Ingredients:
125g finely dhopped glace apricots [I used dried]
2 tblsps chopped red glace cherries
2 tblsps chopped green glace cherries
40g sultanas
60ml brandy
2 tsps gelatine
1 tblsp water
4 eggs, separated
60g icing sugar
25g cocoa powder
50g dark chocolate, melted
50g chopped hazelnuts
50g chocolate-coated honeycomb bar [I think I left this out - couldn't find it!]
300ml whipping cream
100g white chocolate melts, melted

Method:
Combine fruit and brandy in a large bowl and leave overnight
Line a 1.375 litre [5 1/2 cup] pudding basin with plastic wrap
Sprinkle gelatine over water in a cup; stand in pan of simmering water and stir until dissolved. Cool.
Beat egg whites in medium bowl until firm peaks form; gradually beat in combined sifted icing sugar and cocoa. Fold in lightly beaten egg yolks and cooled chocolate.
Stir gelatine mixture, hazelnuts and honeycomb into fruit mixture; fold in chocolate mixture.
Beat cream until soft peaks form; fold into fruit mixture.
Pour complete mixture into prepared pudding basin; cover, freeze several hours or overnight.
Just before serving, turn pudding on to serving plate, smooth surface with wet hands. Spoon white choclate over the top.

Serves 8

Hope this helps. Of course there's nothing to stop you using one of the non-dairy 'icecreams', which you can soften and refreeze after adding fruit,booze, nuts, chocolate, cream or whatever takes your fancy. Have some fun!!

mr_knight

I saw one on GMTV the other day. All they did was put some vanilla ice cream in a blender with large chunks of a bought christmas pudding and blended it for a few seconds. Then they put it back in the tub to freeze and that was it. Dead easy and considering I don't like vanilla ice cream or christmas pud it looked quite yummy.

mr_knight

Here is the link to it. http://www.gm.tv/index.cfm?articleid=23613

Lorian

Sounds like what I'm after. I'll have to try it out in advance :j