Hot Ice Cream Balls

Total Time: 48 hrs 30 mins Preparation Time: 48 hrs Cook Time: 30 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 2 liters vanilla ice cream (good quality full cream)
• plain flour
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup milk
• breadcrumbs
• vegetable oil (for deep frying)
• 60 g butter
• 1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
• 1/2 cup water
• 3 tablespoons grand marnier or 3 tablespoons cointreau liqueur
• 1 tablespoon cornflour
• 1/2 cup cream

Recipe

• 1 for success with this recipe, it is important when making these ice-cream balls to have everything as cold as possible.
• 2 ice-cream must be very hard and should be a good quality full cream ice-cream.
• 3 put a scone (biscuit) tray into freezer before starting to make the ice-cream balls, so it too is very cold.
• 4 ice-cream balls: remove ice-cream container from the freezer, scoop ice-cream into balls with an ice-cream scoop*, put onto prepared tray, return to freezer until hard.
• 5 then, working very quickly, coat one or two ice-cream balls lightly in flour, dip in combined beaten eggs and milk, then coat firmly with breadcrumbs.
• 6 place immediately on tray in freezer; repeat with remaining ice-cream balls.
• 7 freeze the crumbed ice-cream balls until very hard, then repeat"egg-and-breadcrumbing" to give them a firm well covered coating.
• 8 they can now be left for several days until you wish to cook and serve them.
• 9 cooking ice-cream balls: to fry, place ice-cream balls, two at a time, into deep hot oil, fry for 30 seconds or until golden brown, place on absorbent paper.
• 10 serve immediately with hot caramel sauce or hot chocolate sauce or any of your favourite dessert sauces.
• 11 caramel sauce: put butter and sugar into a pan, stir over heat until butter has melted, add combined remaining ingredients, stir over low heart until sugar dissolves, increase heat, bring to boil.
• 12 reduce heat, simmer 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• 13 sauce can be made ahead of time and warm through.
• 14 *tip: dip ice-cream scoop into a glass of water when scooping hard ice-cream into balls.