How to Cook Deep-Fried Ice Cream
Serves: 4
Preparation time: 10 mins + 5 hours (inactive)
Cooking time: 20 mins
Ingredients needed to make Deep-Fried Ice Cream:
- Four 8’’ tortillas
- 2 cups four-grain flake cereal, crushed
- 20 oz chocolate chip ice cream
- 4 maraschino cherries
- 2 eggs
- 1 ½ tbsp sugar
- 1 tsp water
- 3 ½ tsp ground cinnamon
- Cinnamon sugar, as required
- Oil, for deep frying
- Whipped cream
Cooking instructions for Deep-Fried Ice Cream:
- Scoop out 4 balls of ice cream and arrange them in a baking pan, spaced apart.
- Leave them in the freezer for a couple of hours or until they freeze solid.
- Toss the cereal and sugar together, along with a dash of cinnamon and split the mixture equally between two pie pans.
- Crack the eggs into a separate bowl and whisk them well together, along with a splash of water, until they form a light, pale yellowish mixture.
- Roll the frozen ice cream ball across the cereal mixture to coat them evenly and press gently to let it adhere to the ice cream.
- Drop it into the whisked egg and transfer it to the second plate of cereal mixture.
- Roll it back again to coat well with the cereal mixture and return them to the baking pan to freeze for about 4-6 hours until they turn firm and solid.
- For the tortilla container, carve out 2 curved slices from two opposite edges of the tortilla; one slice will make the base for the ice cream ball while other end will make a decorative fan.
- Pour oil in a deep fryer and wait until it heats up.
- Position the tortilla between 2 large spoons to shape it like a basket while supporting the upper fan with the handle of the spoon.
- Dip it into the hot oil and deep-fry until it turns crispy golden.
- Drain out into a large-stemmed glass, with the fan portion facing up vertically and dust with cinnamon sugar; deep-fry rest of the tortillas similarly.
- Drop the coated ice cream balls into the hot oil and deep-fry for half a minute and place each fried balls into the base of the tortilla.
- Add a dollop of whipped cream on top of each ice cream balls and garnish with a cherry on top.
- Serve right away.
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