Chef's Table Recipe
Sticky date pudding and toffee crunch praline ice cream
Ingredients:

Sticky Date Pudding (Serves six)

Ingredients:

  • 200 Grams Brown sugar
  • 65 Grams Butter
  • 1 Whole Eggs
  • 250 Grams Flour
  • 5 Grams Baking powder
  • 5 Grams Baking soda
  • 300 Grams Water
  • Vanilla
  • 200 Grams Chopped dates

Toffee Crunch Praline Ice Cream

Toffee Almond Ingredients:

  • 125 Grams Sugar
  • 200 Grams Sliced Almonds
  • 40 Grams Butter

Praline Ice Cream Ingredients:

  • 750 Grams Milk
  • 50 Grams Skimmed Milk Powder
  • 75 Grams Heavy Cream
  • 90 Grams Yolks
  • 150 Grams Sugar
  • 100 Grams Praline Paste 50%
Method:

Sticky Date Pudding Method:

Bring water to a boil and soak date for 1/2 hour. Beat together with sugar and butter, then slowly add the eggs. Sift together the flour, baking powder and soda. Strain the water off the dates and process them through the robot coupe. Add half of the water back to the dates. Add the rest of the water alternately with the flour to the sugar and butter mixture. Add the vanilla and dates. Use a scoop of ice cream to portion into small dome flexipans. Make the mixture level with the top of flexipan. Steam in small moulds for 15 minutes.

Serve warm, topped with toffee sauce or with homemade ice cream

Toffee Almond Method:

In a medium sized pan stainless steel pot, combine sugar with 1/2 cup water.

Place on a stove and cook until it has reached 175C (light golden brown caramel).

Add butter and carefully mix until it has been completely absorbed. Pour the mix into the oiled marble top (thin layer). Cool down. Using a rolling pin, crunch the toffee into 1/4 inch thick pieces.

Praline Ice Cream Method:

Using 8 liters stainless steel pot, add milk, skimmed milk and heavy cream. Bring to boil.

In a mixing bowl separately, combine yolks and sugar and whisk until there is a pale (Prepare ice water bath to cool down the ice cream) When the milk mixture is boiling, pour half of it into the yolks while whisking. Pour back into the pot on medium flame and cook until 87C or until the ice cream mix is coating the back of the wooden spoon and a clean strike appear when passing your finger on it.

Remove from stove right away. Add praline paste and pass through a thin sieve into the ice bath container. Agitate the mix until it is cooled down to 20C. Run the mix through an ice cream maker until it reaches proper consistency. Fold the toffee almond into it to bring out the flavour.

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