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10 min prep · 24h freeze 4 pints easy
A café gourmand in a pint: espresso ice cream with crunchy almond praline folded in last.
Smooth & scoopable
Balanced base. Freeze 24h, then spin on the matching program.
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Fat
13.0%
target 10–16%
Sugar
18.1%
target 14–20%
MSNF
9.1%
target 8–11%
Total solids
41.1%
target 36–42%
PAC268.3 / 220–280
POD (sweetness)
157
target 140–190
Total mass
575 g
target 473 g = pint
Ingredients
Scale to the number of pints you want — every gram scales with you.
4
pints
- Whole Milk260 g
- Heavy Cream160 g
- Granulated Sugar55 g
- Dextrose20 g
- Skim Milk Powder22 g
- Espresso (concentrated, cold)40 g
- Egg Yolk18 g
Batch mass575 g
Method
- 1.Whisk yolks with sugars. Warm milk and cream, temper, cook to 80 °C.
- 2.Off heat, stir in espresso.
- 3.Cool, pint, freeze 24 h. Spin on Ice Cream. Mix-In 25 g crushed almond praline.
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