Maple Walnut Ice Cream
By Yankee Magazine|Mar 29 2005|
Maple Walnut Ice Cream
Photo Credit: DreamstimeThis delicious recipe for maple walnut ice cream, which uses a mixture of buttermilk and cream for its base, will have your family clamoring for more.
Yield:
about 5 cups
Total Time:
30 minutesIngredients
1-3/4 cups heavy cream
1-1/4 cups buttermilk
5 egg yolks
1 cup maple syrup, divided
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup walnuts, chopped and toasted
Instructions
In a saucepan, heat cream and buttermilk until it steams; then remove from heat. Meanwhile, beat egg yolks with half the maple syrup until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Pour 1/2 cup of hot cream/buttermilk mixture into egg mixture, whisking as you go; then transfer it all back to the pot to create a loose custard.
Stir in remaining maple syrup. Heat custard on medium setting, stirring continuously, until it reaches 175° on an instant-read thermometer (this is the point at which it will thicken noticeably). Remove from heat, stir in salt, and pour through a strainer into a bowl. Place in refrigerator to chill to 35°-40°, about 6 hours or up to overnight. (You may speed up this process by stirring the custard over a bowl of ice.)
Pour mixture into your ice-cream maker, leaving 3/4 inch at the top to allow for expansion, and prepare according to freezer instructions. Add walnuts during final 5 minutes of chilling.
Notes
Allow 6 to 12 hours to chill.
Fell in love with maple walnut ice cream while visiting New York recently and would love to try this recipe.
Can’t find maple walnut ice cream or Brigham’s vanilla bean ice cream out here in the West. Please send some!
If you’re in/near Seattle, you can get maple nut ice cream at Dick’s Drive-in. That’s also where I get peppermint ice cream year round.
Take care when putting maple syrup into any hot liquid. It’s likely to crystallize into a solid on contact. It would be much better to heat the syrup along with the cold milk and cream.
Without a doubt.. the happiest day of my desert life was when I found Coffee Ice Cream in my local grocery market here in Southeast Wisconsin… I t has been available for about 10 of the 30 plus years I have lived here in The Milwaukee area… I still have to have my brother send me the Autocrat coffee syrup though… a coffee cabinet is ecstasy . As a kid growing up in the Worcester area Eclipse was the coffee syrup of choice…I guess they are out of business.
Neil, you can find Eclipse Coffee Syrup on Amazon. That is where I purchase it along with Autocrat Coffee Syrup too. I do hope this info. helps a fellow New Englander. Cheers! :O)
Hooray! Finally a good recipe for Maple Walnut Ice Cream! While I’m being a snowbird, it’s not available, but now I can make it!