As its name suggests, caramel sauce ice cream is made with milk, plus a good amount of sugar. Everything is cooked together over low heat for a long time until it acquires the consistency and color of caramel. If you try it for the first time its flavor may remind you of toffee, but if you taste it carefully, you will realize that it is totally different. Normally, dulce de leche is used in pastries as a filling or topping and can also be spread, although what we are going to do with it here, as you already know, is dulce de leche ice cream. In addition, we tell you how to do it both with a refrigerator and without it.
If you have 10 minutes, you have enough time to make this dulce de leche ice cream. The hardest part is waiting for it to freeze. Don’t worry, you don’t have to break your head too much because It only has 3 ingredients: dulce de leche, cream and a little more milk. It has such a simple preparation that you will see how when you finish reading you will easily remember how to do it. Although you can always come see us to refresh the recipe. It will be a pleasure!
recipe information
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- Preparation time: 10 minutes
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- total time: 6 hours and 10 minutes
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- rations:6
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- Category: dessert
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- type of cuisine: international
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- calories: 275 kcal per 100 g
Ingredients for dulce de leche ice cream for 6 people
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- 300 g of dulce de leche
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- 200 ml of whipping cream
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- 100 ml of milk
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- Chocolate syrup (optional, to serve or decorate)
How to make dulce de leche ice cream
In a bowl, mix the dulce de leche with the milk. If you want to make it easier, heat the milk for about 30 seconds in the microwave. The heat helps it to dissolve, although it is not totally necessary.
Beat with a few rods until both ingredients have been integrated.
Whip the cream To make it easier, use the cream fresh from the fridge and if you can, put the bowl and the rods in the freezer for a while before making the recipe. The cold helps a lot for the cream to catch air and therefore mount.
Add the cream to the mixture of dulce de leche and milk. It is best to do it 3 times, using a silicone spatula with enveloping movements from bottom to top.
If you have a refrigerator, the first thing to do is take the mixture to the fridge for about 2 hours. Then, the mixture is put into the machine according to the manufacturer’s instructions to butter our. This process can take 30 to 60 minutes. Finally, transfer to a container with a lid and freeze for a minimum of 2 hours.
Otherwise, to make dulce de leche ice cream by hand, proceed as follows. First, put the mixture in a container with a lid and take it to the freezer for 2 hours, no more. Beat with a whisk and freeze for 30 minutes. Repeat this step 3 or 4 more times to prevent the formation of crystals and for the ice cream to be creamy. Finally, let it finish freezing for at least 2 hours.
When frozen, this dulce de leche ice cream hardens quite a bit. It is advisable to remove it from the freezer about 10 minutes before serving to facilitate the task and add a little chocolate syrup if desired.
Easy preparation summary
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- Dissolve the dulce de leche in the milk
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- Whip the cream until it thickens
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- Mix the cream with the dulce de leche with encircling movements
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- With machine: cool 2 hours, keep in the fridge according to the manufacturer’s instructions and freeze 2 hours
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- Without machine: freeze 2 hours, shake, freeze 30 minutes, shake and freeze about 3 or 4 more times and, finally, let it freeze for another 2 hours
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- Remove 10 minutes before serving
