Gelato
Bourbon Bacon Gelato
A gelato made with bourbon and crisp bacon, a sweet and smoky dessert.
Recipe
Ingredients
| Metric | US | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 3 | bacon strips | |
| 4 | 4 | large egg yolks | |
| 50 g | ¼ cup | granulated sugar | |
| 240 ml | 1 cup | double cream | |
| 180 ml | ¾ cup | whole milk | |
| 30 g | 2 tbsp | cream cheese | |
| 30 ml | 2 tbsp | bourbon | |
| 5 ml | 1 tsp | vanilla extract |
Ingredients
Method
- Put the bacon in a medium frying pan over a medium-low heat. Cook for 6–8 minutes, until crisp on both sides. Take the bacon out of the pan and leave to cool for about 5 minutes. Keep 1 tablespoon of the bacon fat from the pan.
- Once cool, chop the bacon finely and keep it in an airtight container in the fridge.
- Whisk the egg yolks and sugar together in a small saucepan until the sugar has dissolved.
- Add the double cream, milk, cream cheese, bourbon and vanilla and stir.
- Heat over a medium heat, stirring constantly with a whisk or spatula. Cook until it reaches 74–79°C on a thermometer.
- Take off the heat, whisk in the reserved bacon fat and strain through a fine sieve into an empty Creami pint. Stand the pint in an ice bath until cool. Once cool, cover and freeze for 24 hours.
- Press: GELATO Take the pint out of the freezer, remove the lid, lock it into the outer bowl with the paddle lid, place it on the machine and select gelato.
- Press: MIX-IN Make a hole about 4 cm wide down to the bottom of the pint. Add the chopped bacon to the hole and spin again on the mix-in program.
- Serve straight away.
Nutrition per serving estimated
- Calories
- 470 kcal
- Fat
- 39 g
- of which saturates
- 22 g
- Carbohydrate
- 17 g
- of which sugars
- 16 g
- Fibre
- 0 g
- Protein
- 7.8 g
- Sodium
- 170 mg
We add up the nutrition in each ingredient, using standard food data from the US Department of Agriculture's FoodData Central (and typical packet values where it has no match, such as UK double cream), then divide by the 4 servings this recipe makes. Brands vary, so treat it as a guide. Optional extras and the liquid you top up with before spinning aren't counted.
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