The Coca-Cola Ice Cream (only for my sister)

2019-05-31

This Recipe
Cuisine: American Cuisine
Course: Dessert, Ice Cream And Sorbet
Difficulty: Easy
Category: Course

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Chef : François
Category: Recipe
Posted on: Friday May 31, 2019
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Languages : English | Français

Ingredients
Coca cola, Vanilla Custard,

Staples
Bugey, Patricia

La version Française se trouve ICI

A delicious and refreshing Ice Cream

About this recipe

An Ice Cream with coca cola flavor that may shock you at first...

...and that may shock you as well when you taste it : soooooo refreshing and tasty ! If you thought this is the kind of Ice Cream that only kids may enjoy, you will be surprised to see that the whole family loves it !

This is an Ice Cream that I used to make with my sister every summer with Patricia, my favorite sister (and the only one by the way)

We used to have an ice-cream maker that we made sure was working every day...

And day after day, Patricia and I used to try any flavor

Until this day when we ran out if ideas, and so, we decided to pour Coke in the ice cream mix

And what a surprise ! It was so refreshing and tasty !!

And not only WE loved it, but our friends, then the neighborhood, then the whole town heard about this Coca-Cola Ice Cream and tasted it. Everybody was asking for it !

Patricia was reminding me of this ice cream recently, and as summer is finally coming here in California, I decided to try it again : this is the recipe that I am showing you today !

Ingredients

4 ½ Cups Cola (Coca Cola or Pepsi) (1 Liter)

The Custard Base

2 ¼ Cups Whipping Cream (500 grams)

4 Egg Yolks. ⅓ Cup or 80 grams

2 Tablespoons Sugar (30 grams)

You will need...

Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl

DeBuyer Whisk

Digital Laser Infrared Thermometer

Food Wrap

Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker

Cuisinart Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker

Pyrex Glass Bakeware

Glass Baking Dish with Lid

Double-Sided Melon Baller

Stainless Steel Melon Baller

Steps

The Custard

Cook in a saucepan the

Whipping Cream

(2 ¼ Cups or 500 g),

on low heat

2. In a mixing bowl, beat the

Egg Yolks

(4) and the

Sugar

(2 Tablespoons or 30 g)

3. Pour in the

Whipping Cream

onto the bowl and mix with a wire whip

4. Transfer to the saucepan

Stainless Steel Mixing Bowl

DeBuyer Whisk

Cook

on low heat

6. Keep stirring to avoid lumps

7. Check the temperature : stir until the temperature reaches 180 °F / 83 °C

Digital Laser Infrared Thermometer

8. Transfer right away to a clean bowl

9. Wrap airtight

10.

Let cool down for

30 minutes

at room temperature then for

1 hour

in the fridge

Food Wrap

The Coca-Cola Reduction

11. To make the reduction (which concentrates the coca-cola flavor) :

12.

Pour the

Cola (Coca Cola or Pepsi)

(4 ½ Cups or 1 Liter) into a saucepan and cook

on medium/high heat

13. Cook until the quantity of liquid has reduced until you get 400 Milliliters : you should get less than half of the initial volume

14. Transfer onto a clean bowl and let cool down at room temperature for

1 hour

15.

Place in the refrigerator for at least

2 hours

The Ice Cream Mix

16. Once everything has cooled down, you just need to whisk the

custard

and the

coca-cola reduction

together

17.

If you observe lumps, mix with a immersion blender (sometimes called 'hand blender')

Churning

There are several ice cream makers that you will need to chose from :

Ice Cream Maker with a Freezer Bowl
This ice cream maker has a special bowl, a container that goes into the freezer
overnight
. Once it's frozen, you put it in your ice cream maker, add your mix, and let the machine stir them until the ice cream is ready.
Ice Cream Maker with a Compressor
This top of the line ice cream maker chills using a compressor. You don't need neither ice nor bowl : you don't need to remember to freeze anything overnight; when you're ready to make ice cream, just add your ingredients and go

Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker

Cuisinart Compressor Ice Cream and Gelato Maker

If you are using like me an Ice Cream Maker with a Freezer Bowl, you need to place the bowl and the plastic over into the freezer for

a few hours

Also, clean and dry the container that will store the ice cream when done, and chill in the freezer until you are done preparing your ice cream or sorbet

Pyrex Glass Bakeware

Glass Baking Dish with Lid

Churning

18. Pour in the mix onto your ice-cream maker

At first, the mix is liquid, but gradually, it thickens

In summer, I cover the ice cream maker with aluminium foil

Churning

19. First, the mix is liquid

20. After

10/15 minutes

, the liquid thickens

21. After

30 minutes

(or sooner depending on your device), you get the ice-cream !

Churn... churn... churn... and observe the mix getting thicker and thicker

Freezing...

22. Transfer the ice-cream onto a container (I am using a glass container, Pyrex)

23.

Place it in the freezer for

2 hours

, ideally

overnight

How to serve

24. To make the whole experience even more fun, I use candies (Haribo found at CVS, or Walgreens)

25. I chose to scoop little balls with a melon baller