![]() ![]() Preheat the oven to 350 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment or a silicone baking mat. While the custard is chilling, prepare the caramelized cereal. Cover the bowl of custard with aluminum foil and chill thoroughly in the refrigerator, overnight, or at least a few hours. Stir often to cool the custard down quickly. Pour the custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a metal bowl set over an ice-water bath. Do not let the custard come to a bubble or boil while cooking. Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the custard thickens and coats the back of a spoon (when you run your finger across the back of the spoon through the custard, a track should remain and not run back into itself). In a medium saucepan, whisk together the milk, cream, sugar, egg yolks, cinnamon and salt. I used salted butter for the caramelized cereal, but if you have unsalted butter on hand, add a good pinch of salt to get that great sweet-salty balance.ġ teaspoon ground Vietnamese cinnamon (see note)ģ tablespoons salted butter (or unsalted-see note) Remember that the unfrozen custard needs to be sweeter and more intense in flavor than you might want in the end, because these things become muted when frozen. The amounts listed below are the result of testing this recipe with it, so you may need to add more of regular ground cinnamon to get a noticably cinnamon-y flavor. It is so much more potent, so much more alive in flavor than your standard ground cinnamon. ![]() If you can get your hands on it, I highly, highly suggest getting some Vietnamese cinnamon for this recipe (sometimes sold as Saigon cinnamon in supermarkets these days). Like finding a shameless way to justify eating ice cream for breakfast. All mixed together-the spicy, creamy ice cream dotted with bits of what amounts to sweet-salty, candied bits of crunch-this ice cream gives the ghost of Swensen's cinnamon ice cream a run for its money. (Sidenote: this part of the recipe can be consumed by the handful in an addicitive frenzy, so just watch your back-it creeps up on you like that.)Ĭan you just imagine a scoop of this stuff on your holiday pies instead of plain old vanilla? Hoooo, boy. ![]() I opted to up the crazy further by caramelizing the cereal to a satisfying sweet-salty crunch with salted butter and brown sugar, which also keeps it from getting all soft when mixed into the ice cream. I needed to mix in some Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal. I needed to add some dimension and texture. But because I've become cranky and particular about my ice cream in my old age, I needed more than just plain cinnamon ice cream. So for quite some time I've been dreaming up my own cinnamon ice cream, one with all the spice and creaminess that I remember from the days of yore. And wouldn't you know it, those jerks don't even have cinnamon ice cream anymore? Geez. Stopping abruptly to avoid being killed by a racing streetcar full of Alcatraz sweatshirt-wearing tourists, I look up to see a flippin' Swensen's ice cream parlor! What?! Childhood memories came flooding back, filling my eyes with tears. ![]() Like when you promise them a cookie, like, seven hours ago.Īnyway, fast forward many years later and I'm cruising the highly dangerous, hilly streets of my new hometown of San Francisco. Funny how a small child can savor such fleeting moments so vividly. But I do very clearly remember a certain cinnamon ice cream they had that just about made my whole life, even though I probably really only had it a couple of times. It didn't stick around for too long into my childhood I think many of the Midwestern locations closed up shop at some point. Anyway, back in the little suburban town in Illinois where I grew up, there was a Swensen's ice cream parlor that I was obsessed with. I know it was definitely before my little sister came along and dethroned me, so for certain younger than five. Like, way back to when I was probably four or so, maybe. Then we're gonna mix the caramelized cereal into the ice cream.īefore I go any further, I need to take you back a bit. Then we're going to caramelize some breakfast cereal. First we're going to make one heck of a cinnamon ice cream. So let me tell you how this is all going to go down. ![]()
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