I often wish I could be part of Tuesdays with Dorie, a baking group that bakes something from Baking from My Home to Yours every week. However, the every week baking commitment is too much for me. I just can't make that kind of commitment to baking from Dorie's book, much as I love it. However, I often check out the group to see what they are making and I follow a bunch of blogs that are part of the group and I love seeing what they make.
This week, the recipe was burnt sugar ice cream from page 432 of Baking and I was looking for an ice cream flavor to make and decided to give it a try. Both my husband and I liked this ice cream (a rarity in the chocolate/non-chocolate divided house). It has a strong, complex flavor with a little bit of bitterness. This is not ice cream for children. You can find the recipe here, on the blog of the person who chose it for Tuesdays with Dorie.
I thought the ice cream could use a little something to compliment the flavor. Dorie suggests a sugar cookie, but I decided to try hot fudge, which I have been wanting to try making anyway. I tried Dorie's recipe and it was so good. Rich and thick and chocolaty, and it hardened just the right amount when it touched the ice cream. I thought the flavors of the burnt sugar and the hot fudge went really well together.
I also had some milk chocolate ice cream in the freezer, left over from when we were supposed to have people over but had to cancel because of sick children. I put some of that in the bowl as well. The milk chocolate ice cream has a pretty mild flavor, but I thought the burnt sugar actually brought out the milk chocolate flavor well. And chocolate ice cream with hot fudge is always good in my book. The recipe is from David Lebovitz (my personal ice cream guru). He says to use a premium quality milk chocolate (not a Hershey bar or something like that). I used Scharffenberger, which has just appeared in my grocery store and it worked well. I thought it had really good flavor.
You can find the recipes after the jump.
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