Praline Ice Cream

Name: Praline Ice Cream
Ingredients: 1 1/2 cups pralines, finely crushed (Pralines Aux Pacanes - Pecan Pralines or your own recipe); 3 cups milk; 4 egg yolks, well beaten; 3/4 cup sugar; 1 pinch salt; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1 1/2 cups heavy cream

7 ingredients

6 steps

Ingredients

1 1/2 cups pralines, finely crushed (Pralines Aux Pacanes - Pecan Pralines or your own recipe)
3 cups milk
4 egg yolks, well beaten
3/4 cup sugar
1 pinch salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cups heavy cream

Directions

1

Stir milk gradually into egg yolks.
2

Add sugar and salt; cook in the top of a double boiler until mixture coats the spoon.
3

Chill thoroughly.
4

Whip cream to very soft peaks (it won't quite hold its shape).
5

Add pralines, vanilla and whipped cream.
6

Freeze either in an ice cream maker or in the freezer (if using your freezer, stir twice during freezing to prevent large ice crystals from forming).