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vanilla🍨 Ice Cream🇨🇦 Canada

Butter Tart

Brown sugar, butter and egg yolk base — the filling, frozen.

20 min prep · 24h freeze 4 pints medium

The interior of a Canadian butter tart: brown sugar, egg yolk, butter, raisins. Pastry chunks go in as a Mix-In.

Almost — small tweak
Close to target. A small adjustment will make it noticeably smoother.
Fat
12.6%
target 10–16%
Sugar
19.2%
target 14–20%
MSNF
10.0%
target 8–11%
Total solids
43.4%
target 36–42%
PAC279.7 / 220280
POD (sweetness)
171
target 140–190
Total mass
662 g
target 473 g = pint
Why
  • Total solids 43.4% is above 42% — base will be gummy.
Fix it
  • Add 38 g water to lower total solids.

Ingredients

Scale to the number of pints you want — every gram scales with you.

4
pints
  • Whole Milk350 g
  • Heavy Cream129 g
  • Brown Sugar60 g
  • Dextrose18 g
  • Skim Milk Powder30 g
  • Egg Yolk30 g
  • Browned Butter (cooled)20 g
  • Raisins (soaked)25 g
Batch mass662 g

Method

  1. 1.Brown butter, cool. Soak raisins in warm water for 10 min, drain.
  2. 2.Make a yolk-tempered custard with milk, cream, sugars; cook to 80 °C.
  3. 3.Whisk in butter, cool, fold raisins through.
  4. 4.Pint, freeze 24 h. Spin on Ice Cream. Mix-In 25 g pie-crust crumbs.

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