Char’s Ice Cream
I drink hot chai with honey almost every afternoon, it stops me from snacking and stops me from craving sweet things that are bad for me. I have been thinking for sometime that I really wanted to make a chai ice cream (yes this defeats the purpose of drinking the chai to avoid sweet bad for me things but it sounded so good anyway). So yesterday I finally made it and its wonderful. I made this in an electric ice cream maker, you can use whatever you have but the results and times may vary.
Char’s Honey Spiced Chai Ice Cream
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3 Twining’s of London Indian Chai Spice Tea bags (This is my favorite chai tea because it is well spiced)
1 cup whole milk
1/4 cup Sugar
1/8 cup Honey
1/2 tsp Vanilla Paste (you could substitute half a vanilla bean with the seeds scraped, but you need to remove the bean before churning)
1/8 tsp ground Cardamom
1 cup heavy cream
In a small non-reactive saucepan heat milk to simmering. Add the tea bags and let steep for a few minutes, stir in sugar honey, vanilla paste and cardamom. let sit on the counter till cooled to room temperature. Refrigerate at least 1 hour until really cold.
Set up ice cream maker. Remove the tea bags from the tea and milk mixture and discard them. Poor in the cup of heavy cream and the tea mixture into the ice cream maker and churn per the ice cream makers instructions. [My ice cream maker is kept in a chest freezer with a temperature of -20f, churning the ice cream to the correct constancy took about 15 minutes, but I would imagine if your ice cream maker is at zero degrees f (which is what most freezers attached to refrigerators are set at) it may take a bit longer.] You can serve it at this consistency right away, which is just slightly thicker than soft serve, or pack it in a plastic or glass airtight container and freeze until hard. Makes 1 Pint.
This ice cream has a very mellow chai and honey flavor, it would go very well with ginger snaps, brandy snaps or candied pecans or almonds.
Enjoy
November 25th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
That sounds delicious!
November 26th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Sounds lovely Char- you’ll have to make me some one day, as I don’t have an icecream maker!
November 26th, 2009 at 6:32 pm
Sounds great — but I don’t have an ice cream maker anymore!
I am a chai addict. It’s nearly the only thing that I drink. Fat-free creamer (the kind in the dairy section, not the yukky dry stuff) is a great thing… Strong chai tea steeped forever + splenda + dash of raw sugar (to get rid of the icky splenda aftertaste) + tsp or so of the fat free creamer + handheld frother makes for a really good chai tea latte with almost no calories and no fat. Heat the tea in the microwave until it’s very hot beforehand, of course.
I’ll take this recipe with me when I go on vacation in Jan/Feb, as we will be staying with the friends who were lucky enough to get a brand spanking new ice cream maker that we had to give away (UK vs. US appliances! Gah!).
December 6th, 2009 at 8:18 pm
note on the recipe: I have just learned that they have renamed the chai from Indian Chai Spice to just Chai, I also saw at the grocery that they make an extra spiced Chai, but I haven’t tried it yet.