I remember Aubrey and I driving home one night from visiting my grandparents (3.5 hours away). There are several small towns that we drive through along the way, and we were both craving a chocolate malt. We went to 3 fast food restaurants, and every single one of them said their machine was broken. I have a feeling they didn't want to bother with making them because they were about to close. Maybe they had already cleaned it and didn't want to dirty it up again... I don't know, but I was really sad we couldn't share a malt.
I can't even describe to you how good this ice cream is. It's so creamy, but it also has the crunchy malted milk balls scattered all throughout the ice cream.
David Lebovitz says in this book that "he guarded this Malted Milk Ice Cream, saving it all for himself." I surely believe it, too!
Ingredients:
1 cup half-and-half
3/4 cup sugar
Pinch of salt
2 cups heavy cream
1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract
2/3 cup malt powder
6 large egg yolks
2 cups malted milk balls, coarsely chopped
Directions:
Warm the half-and-half, sugar, and salt in a medium saucepan. In a large bowl, whisk together the heavy cream, vanilla, and malt powder and set a mesh strainer on top.
In a separate medium bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Slowly pour the warm mixture into the egg yolks, whisking constantly, then scrape the warmed egg yolks back into the saucepan.
Stir the mixture constantly over medium heat with a heatproof spatula, scraping the bottom as you stir, until the mixture thickens and coats the spatula. Pour the custard through the strainer and whisk it into the malted milk mixture. Stir until cool over an ice bath.
Chill the mixture thoroughly in the refrigerator, then freeze it in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. As you remove the ice cream from the machine, fold in the chopped malted milk balls.
Source: The Perfect Scoop, by David Lebovitz
5 comments:
YUM! Thanks for the positive review of this recipe! I got The Perfect Scoop for Christmas but I haven't made anything from it yet and I was looking at this recipe to get me started. You convinced me! I love malted milk balls too!!
All I can say is, "wow!" This looks absolutely divine!
Bring on the malted milk balls!
I bought some malted eggs, early Easter....Riley told me he didn't like eggs, but like Schatzi, he did like these! It looks wonderful. wonder how it would work sans eggs?????
Yum! This sounds so good. Where do you find the Malt powder though?
Meg (Miller): The malt powder is next to the breakfast drink mixes in my grocery store, but I've also seen it next to ice cream toppings in another. You can also ask someone at your grocery store. Carnation is a popular brand here in the U.S.
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