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Hi Bold Bakers!
Who doesn’t love caramel corn? And Ice Cream? Separately and together they are a happy combination of flavor and texture.
You are probably wondering how you make ice cream taste like Caramel Corn? It’s simple, soak the popcorn in cream for 30 minutes until it goes soft. The caramel and popcorn will infuse in the cream. The longer you infuse, the stronger the flavor.
A dessert mash up is where two delicious things come together to become one. That’s a perfect way to describe my Caramel Corn Ice Cream: Caramel Popcorn & Ice Cream. They’re yummy by themselves and even better together.
Have you seen my other Big & Bold Ice Cream Flavors? You might also like my Toasted Marshmallow, Cereal Milk, Lemon Meringue Pie and Starbucks Mocha Frappuccino Ice Cream.
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Caramel Corn Ice Cream (No Machine)
Ingredients
- 2 cups (100g/ 3 ½ oz) caramel corn
- 2 cups (16oz/450 ml ) cold whipping cream (all purpose cream or heavy cream)
- ¼ cup (3 ½ oz/ 100g) cold condensed milk
- A handful of crushed popcorn for mixing in
Instructions
- Pour the cream into a bowl and stir in the caramel corn. Let is sit and soak for 30 minutes. This will infuse the cream with the flavors of the popcorn.
- Pass the cream through a sieve. Feel free to push out any excess cream from the corn too. It’s all flavors.
- Whip the cold cream on medium/ high in a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or using a hand mixer) until soft peaks form.
- Turn off the machine and pour the condensed milk into the whipped cream.
- Turn the speed back up high again and whisk until the mixture is thick and stiff peaks.
- Now you have your ice cream base you can add in your desired flavors once it is nice and thick.
- Stir in the crushed caramel corn for even more caramel corn flavor and texture.
- Place in a large resealable container and freeze at least 4 hours or overnight before eating. Keep for up to 6 weeks.
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This recipe did not work for me. The cream didn’t turn to soft peaks. Caramel corn has butter in it, could this impact the cream from whipping properly? Also, This website is filled to the brim with ads. 4 at any given time… terrible user experience.
Completely delicious!!!! Thank you! Only thing is, my popcorn got a bit soggy in the ice cream, but I guess there’s no way of preventing that right?
Hi gemma.
Thanks for all great recipes.
Why is this recipe different and has only 100 gr of condensed milk?
Can one replace the caramel corn with just caramel?
HI Gemma,
Oh wow! excellent content! I need to recreate all of your recipes, 😀
I would like to ask about the recipes, would they work with a liquid nitrogen mixer? or will it freeze the batch so quickly it may lose some of its texture?
thanks a lot! 🙂
Hey gemma this ice cream is such a good idea. It literally filled my ice cream cravings but I have a small problem , can u plz tell us how to make caramel corn at home
Yess!!! May I take it to the cinema? Hehe, tastes so good! It’s crunchy and creamy at the same time 😀 Wonderful recipe. Thanks Gemma!
Gemma, this was excellent! Thank you.