Butter Crunch Ice Cream Recipe

I get many visits to this site, which I appreciate. One of the biggest draws to this site is my Butter Crunch Ice Cream picture, posted on Flickr. For no real reason, I never got around to posting the recipe - until now.

For this ice cream, I wanted to make a homemade Butter Crunch candy and found an outstanding recipe for "English Toffee" (AKA Butter Crunch) on the "Cooking For Engineers" website (which was perfect, since I am an engineer!). They describe the process of making toffee in such a way that anyone can make it.

Homemade Butter Crunch Ice Cream
Originally uploaded by sfinley_nh

I made the candy the day prior to making the ice cream, to allow it to fully cool.

I followed their recipe up through spreading the toffee to cool, skipping adding the
chocolate (since I only wanted the butter crunch part). You can decide how far you'd
like to go. I did sprinkle in the almonds before it cooled. Follow their directions for cooling as well.

Ingredients for Butter Crunch
1 cup sugar
1/2 cup chopped almonds
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup butter

Follow the recipe on "Cooking For Engineers" to complete the candy.

Ice Cream:

For all of my ice cream recipes I developed my own Ice Cream Base - a rich, creamy base that makes incredibly delicious ice cream. For this butter crunch recipe, I also added 4 tablespoons of melted butter before cooling. I wanted to make sure I had a nice rich buttery flavor.

Cool the mixture well, at least over night, in the refrigerator.

Once cool, stir the mixture well, and add to your ice cream maker. While the ice cream is churning, break up the butter crunch candy into small pieces. When there are
around 5 minutes left, add in the broken pieces of butter crunch candy.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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Key Lime Pie flavor

This weekend I made Key Lime Pie flavor ice cream - and received rave reviews from my family. My wife says out of all the flavors I've made, this is her favorite.



To make this, first make my Sweet Cream Base, then after the mix is good and chilled, simply add 3 oz. of Mrs. Biddle's Key Lime juice when adding to the ice cream maker.

Serve with Nilla Wafers (as I've done here) or graham crackers if you'd like.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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Strawberry Garcia Redux

This past weekend I made Strawberry Garcia ice cream again, and wow - it was as good as I remember it being the first time I made it!

Enjoy!
- Scott
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Peanut Butter Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream

Today in New Hampshire the temperature reached 77 degrees! And what goes better with warm weather than ice cream!

I've been thinking of making this flavor for a long time: Peanut Butter ice cream with Chocolate Chunks!



First, as always, I make my sweet cream base. This is an unbelievably creamy and delicious ice cream. Chill this over night.

Then I made the following Peanut Butter mixture:

1/2 cup peanut butter
1/2 heavy cream
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 cup light brown sugar

Add all ingredients to a sauce pan and heat slowly over low heat. Stir constantly until smooth and all the sugar has dissolved.

Chill over night along with the sweet cream base mixture.

To make the ice cream in your ice cream maker:
Once both mixtures have chilled, add the sweet cream base to the ice cream maker. When there is about 5 minutes left add the peanut butter mix. Add broken chocolate bar pieces at the very end.

Chill the ice cream for several hours before serving.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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Sugar Plum Swirl Ice Cream recipe

For Christmas I made the Sugar Plum Swirl Ice Cream I mentioned the other day. It came out great!

Here is the recipe:

First, make my Sweet Cream Base.

Next, after whisking in the Vanilla, add to the Ice Cream maker "following manufacturer's instructions."

While the ice cream is being made, put the Sugar Plum Jam (from Stonewall Kitchen) in a bowl so that it will be easier to work with.

Then, when the ice cream is complete, transfer it to the dish you plan to freeze it in, and swirl in the Sugar Plum Jam.

Freeze at least a few hours, preferably overnight.

Serve with a sugar cookie.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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Sugar Plum Swirl Ice Cream

This year for Christmas I will be making Sugar Plum Swirl Ice Cream. I will be using Sugar Plum Jam from Stonewall Kitchen, which I discovered for the first time this year.

First I will make vanilla ice cream using my nearly famous sweet cream base. Then when the ice cream is finished in the ice cream maker, I will add the Sugar Plum Jam - stirring it in as a ripple just before freezing.

I plan to serve it with Sugar Cookies.

Yum! Sugar Plum Swirl Ice Cream! I will follow up after making it with a picture or two.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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My Sweet Cream Base for homemade Ice Cream

Here is how I make it:

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1 1/2 cups half-and-half
1 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Stir the sugar and half-and-half together in a saucepan. Heat slowly over medium-low heat stirring frequently. When this mixture starts to simmer, remove from heat.

While the sugar and half-and-half are heating, combine the beaten eggs and heavy cream in a mixing bowl. Whisk them up well.

After removing the sugar and half-and-half from the heat, slowly add small amounts to the egg and cream mixture, stirring constantly. Add a little of the warm mix at a time so you do not scramble the egg mix. Take your time. Keep adding the warm mix to the egg and cream mix until you have added it all, stirring the whole time.

Put the combined mixture into the saucepan, and heat again over medium-low heat, stirring constantly. Stir until it is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon.

Remove from heat. Refrigerate overnight.

Whisk in the vanilla just before adding to your ice cream maker.

Enjoy!
- Scott
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