VANILLA CARAMEL POPSICLES

It’s safe to assume that most people love ice cream, whether it’s extra creamy like gelato or refreshingly fruity like a berry sorbet. Rolled ice cream is trending on TikTok besides the countless homemade ice cream recipes. We love a 2-ingredient, creamy, homemade vanilla ice cream but popsicles kick it up a notch. It’s probably the presentation, a hard coating of nutty chocolate for chocolate lovers, a creamy vanilla interior with a delightful caramel promise in the centre. A creamy, cold indulgence you cannot say no to on a hot day.

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It’s true; making homemade ice cream is satisfying, especially when it’s effortless and requires only a few ingredients; heavy cream, milk and sweetener. For flavouring, a good quality vanilla extract is the best option for a frozen vanilla dessert. The only extra mile for these Vanilla Caramel popsicles is you will need a popsicle mould and be well-versed in making homemade caramel sauce which you can also use store-bought.

Steps For Making Vanilla Caramel Popsicles

Make the homemade caramel sauce. In a small heavy-duty pan, mix water with granulated sugar. Over medium heat, let it come to a gentle boil, stirring constantly until it turns amber in colour.

Pour in warm heavy cream while gradually stirring. Let it cook for 1-2 minutes then remove it from the heat. Stir in room-temperature butter until fully combined, then set the caramel aside to cool before using.

Make a vanilla ice cream base. In a medium-sized mixing bowl, add heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, evaporated milk and vanilla extract. Mix just until thick( 3-5 minutes with a hand mixer set on medium speed).

Pour into silicon popsicle moulds. Pour half the vanilla ice cream into the silicon moulds only filling up to half in each space. Pipe the cooled caramel sauce on each half-filled section then fill with the remaining vanilla ice cream base. Gently insert popsicle sticks into each section and freeze for at least 4 hours or until completely solid.

Gently unmould from the silicon when ready to dip into melted chocolate.

Coat with chocolate. Chop and melt a bar of dark chocolate. Pour melted chocolate into a deep glass jar and mix with chopped nuts. Dip each frozen popsicle into the melted chocolate then, set aside on parchment paper to cool.

Ingredients and substitutions For Vanilla Caramel Popsicles

Heavy cream. When heavy cream is whipped it incorporates air which in turn makes this homemade ice cream creamy. You can substitute with double cream, or coconut cream although this may change the flavour completely.

Sweetened condensed milk acts as a sweetener and a creamer. It has almost zero water content which limits crystallization, thus making the popsicles creamy. Possible substitutions for sweetened condensed milk are heavy kinds of milk such as coconut cream, evaporated milk or cream cheese with a combination of sweeteners such as honey, maple syrup or sugar.

Evaporated milk. The preferred milk to use in ice cream since it has less water content.

However, note that some ingredient substitutions can completely change the flavour of the ice cream. For example, cheese cream will steer it toward a cream cheese flavoured ice cream or coconut towards coconut flavour ice cream.

Ingredients You Will Need For the caramel

Heavy cream. To deglaze caramelized sugar.

Sugar. It is cooked to an amber colour before it’s mixed with hot, heavy cream.

Unsalted butter. It improves caramel texture and enhances the flavour.

Pinch of salt. Balance out the sweetness.

Dark chocolate mixed with chopped nuts. For coating.

Notes.

• For coating, you can skip the nuts or use your preferred nuts but make sure they are toasted.
• Read more on making homemade caramel sauce here. However, feel free to use store-bought if making it seems lengthy or complicated.
• You can easily make the caramel salted by adding a bit of salt to the caramel mixture.
• The recipe makes eight popsicles, so you will need two four popsicles moulds or the eight silicon mould set

TOOLS YOU WILL NEED

1. Two four silicon popsicle moulds or eight silicon mould sets.
2. Hand mixer
3. Popsicle sticks
4. Piping bag and tip
5. Mixing bowl.

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