Monday, November 7, 2011

If I were Italian

If I were an Italian man, this would be called  Gianduja-Stracciatella.  Fortunately, Chocolate Hazelnut Ice Cream with Chocolate Ribbon is easier to say.  Well, for me anyway.  It was pretty labor intensive, but well worth it for the amount of flavor packed into it.


There's a cream of toasted hazelnuts, home made milk chocolate ganache, and a dark chocolate "ribbon" created by drizzling melted chocolate into the churning ice cream at the very last minute.



One neat thing I learned was that if you don't have whole milk, you can substitute 1.5 tablespoons of heavy cream and add skim milk to make 1 cup of whole milk.