Recipe for an easy strawberry ice cream cake with a nut base.
Course Dessert
Cuisine Danish
Nøgleord Easy summer dessert, Homemade ice cream, Ice cream cake, Ice cream without a machine
Total Time 6 hourshours
Servings 12people
Calories 454kcal
Ingredients
Nut base
200galmonds or hazelnuts
200gsugar, preferably cane sugar
3large eggs
1pinchsalt
Butter for the tin
Strawberry ice cream
500gstrawberries, fresh or frozen
100gsugar
1vanilla pod, seeds scraped out
1tinsweetened condensed milk, approx. 400 g
1/2lwhipping cream (38% fat)
You will also need
Springform tin, approx. 26-28 cm
Acetate cake collar
Fresh strawberries or other decoration
Instructions
Whisk the eggs, sugar and a pinch of salt until pale, thick and fluffy.
Blitz the nuts to a medium-fine flour and fold them into the egg mixture.
Line the base of a springform tin with baking parchment and grease the whole tin, including the parchment, with a little butter.
Pour the batter into the tin and tap it on the worktop a couple of times so any air bubbles rise to the surface.
Bake the base in a preheated conventional oven (top and bottom heat) at 175°C for approx. 30-35 minutes. Then let it cool completely, in the fridge if you like, and press the top down flat.
Put the strawberries, sugar and vanilla seeds, along with the empty vanilla pod, in a saucepan and bring to the boil.
Let the strawberries simmer until completely soft – approx. 10 minutes. Remove the vanilla pod and blend the strawberries to a smooth purée. Put it in the fridge and let it cool completely.
Whip the cream and condensed milk together to a creamy, airy ice cream mixture. Fold in the cold strawberry purée and stir until well combined.
Line the inside of the springform tin with an acetate cake collar; it should stand a little above the top of the tin so all the ice cream mixture will fit.
Pour the ice cream mixture over the base. Tap the tin gently on the worktop so the mixture fills the whole tin, and smooth the top with a palette knife.
Freeze the ice cream cake for at least 4 hours, or until frozen all the way through.
Take the ice cream cake out of the freezer 15-20 minutes before serving and decorate with fresh strawberries.