A Canadian favorite! This sweet ice cream actually stays soft even after a week.
Ingredients
- ½ cups heavy whipping cream: 1 piece
- egg yolks: 5 piece
- ½ cups milk: 1 piece
- white sugar: 2 Tbsp
- corn syrup: 1 Tbsp (optional)
- maple syrup: 0.75 cup
- coarse salt: 0.125 tsp
- vanilla extract: 0.25 tsp
- ½ cups walnut halves: 1 piece
- maple syrup: 0.5 cup
- maple syrup: 1 Tbsp
- pinch salt: 1 piece
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Pour cream into a large bowl and set a mesh strainer over the bowl. Whisk egg yolks together in a separate bowl.
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Heat milk, sugar, and corn syrup together in a saucepan over medium-low heat until milk begins to steam, about 5 minutes. Slowly pour about 1/2 cup heated milk into the egg yolks, whisking constantly. Scrape egg yolk mixture into the saucepan with a heatproof spatula.
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Cook and stir milk mixture constantly with the spatula, scraping the bottom of the saucepan often, until mixture thickens and coats the spatula, about 10 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat; pour mixture through the mesh strainer into the cream.
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Stir 3/4 cup maple syrup, coarse salt, and vanilla into cream mixture, then place the bowl over a larger bowl of ice water; stir to cool to room temperature. Chill mixture in the refrigerator, about 2 hours.
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Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Spread walnuts onto a baking sheet.
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Toast walnuts in the preheated oven until they turn golden brown and become fragrant, about 15 minutes. Set nuts aside to cool to room temperature. Chop nuts coarsely.
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Heat the 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon maple syrup in a saucepan until it comes to a boil. Stir in walnuts, and return to a boil. Stir nuts for 10 seconds, remove from heat; set aside to cool completely. The nuts will be wet and sticky when cooled.
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Remove cream mixture from the refrigerator, pour into your ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. During the last few minutes of churning, stir in wet walnuts.