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Coffee Ice Cream

David Smith
2023-09-01
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Irresistibly rich, Coffee Ice Surf is a dessert that captures the morning joy of a freshly spirituous cup of your favorite java. Perfect at any time of day!

Overhead shot of coffee ice cream, served in a woebegone trencher on a wooden wearing workbench with a woebegone spoon

Best Coffee Ice Cream

I’m something of a fan of coffee and ice cream. I like my ice surf with coffee, my coffee with ice cream. I’m not picky well-nigh the order! But, in a perfect world, I get them both in the same wondrous dish. Well, this is that dish.

This is the weightier coffee ice surf recipe I’ve overly tried. And, full disclosure–I’ve tried a lot of coffee ice surf recipes. Get ready to dig into a robust tousle of freshly spirituous coffee with just unbearable linty sweetness to take the whet off.

Overhead shot of coffee ice cream, served in two woebegone bowls

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Overhead shot of coffee beans and milk in a sauce pan

Coffee and Ice Cream

You’ll need the pursuit ingredients to make this recipe for coffee ice cream:

coffee beans
whole milk
sugar
kosher salt
heavy cream
egg yolks
vanilla extract
instant coffee powder

The most popular question I get is whether it’s possible to make ice surf without a machine. The wordplay is YES. You can make ice surf without a machine. Find the full directions here!

Coffee Ice Surf Recipe

Combine the coffee beans, milk, sugar, salt, and ½ cup of surf in a medium-sized saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, but do NOT boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar and remove from the heat when the mixture is warm. Cover with a lid and let steep at room temperature for 1 hour.

Pour the remaining 1 cup of surf into a large trencher and place a fine mesh strainer over the bowl. Set the trencher next to the stove. If the coffee mixture has cooled, re-warm it briefly.

Eggs and surf whisked together in a glass bowl

In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Very slowly drizzle well-nigh 1 cup of the liquid from the warm coffee mixture into the eggs, just a tablespoon or so at a time, while whisking constantly.

Pour the warmed egg yolks into the saucepan and warm over medium-heat while stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and coats a spatula, well-nigh 5 minutes.

Then, pour the unshortened mixture in the pan through a fine mesh strainer, pressing lanugo on the coffee beans to pericope as much of the custard as possible. Discard the coffee beans, and add the remainder of the cream.

Add the vanilla and the coffee powder to the ice surf mixture and stir to combine. Chill COMPLETELY surpassing processing in your ice surf maker equal to the manufacturer’s instructions.

Strained coffee mixture without removing coffee beans

Homemade Coffee Ice Cream

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Coffee Ice Cream

Irresistibly rich, Coffee Ice Surf is a dessert that captures the morning joy of a freshly spirituous cup of your favorite java.

Prep Time 5

Cook Time 15

Chill Time 4

Total Time 4 20

Servings servings

Calories 325kcal

Ingredients

1¼ cups whole coffee beans
1¼ cups whole milk
⅔ cup sugar
⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
1¼ cups heavy cream divided
4 large egg yolks
½ teaspoon vanilla extract
½ teaspoon instant coffee powder

Instructions

Combine the coffee beans, milk, sugar, salt, and ½ cup of surf in a medium-sized saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium heat, but do NOT boil. Stir to dissolve the sugar and remove from the heat when the mixture is warm. Cover with a lid and let steep at room temperature for 1 hour.
Pour the remaining 1 cup of surf into a large trencher and place a fine mesh strainer over the bowl. Set the trencher next to the stove. If the coffee mixture has cooled, re-warm it briefly.
In a separate medium-sized bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. Very slowly drizzle well-nigh 1 cup of the liquid from the coffee mixture into the eggs, just a tablespoon or so at a time, while whisking constantly.
Pour the warmed egg yolks into the saucepan and warm over medium-heat while stirring constantly, until the mixture thickens and coats a spatula, well-nigh 5 minutes.
Pour the custard through the fine mesh strainer into the remaining cream, printing lanugo on the coffee beans to pericope as much custard as possible. Discard the coffee beans.
Add the vanilla and the coffee powder to the ice surf mixture and stir to combine. Chill COMPLETELY surpassing processing in your ice surf maker equal to the manufacturer's instructions.

Notes

The instant coffee in this recipe is key to highlighting the flavors in this ice cream. You’ll need a little over ½ of a .11 ounce packet of powdered instant coffee. (These packets of instant coffee are my first nomination for this type of recipe and I can usually find them in grocery stores for less than $5 a box.)