Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream is lush dairy salted caramel ice cream studded with honeycomb and chocolate from Crunchie bars. This ice cream is simply heavenly!
Faced with a carton of double cream that was fast approaching its use-by date I knew the best way of preserving it was to make ice cream.
That way we could eat it at our leisure rather than making a creamy dessert that would need to be finished the same day!
Then came the dilemma of which flavour of ice cream to make.
Having been to three food fairs recently, the one that sprang to mind was ‘salted caramel’, it’s in everything these days and deservedly so.
Then wanting a bit of texture in there I decided that chopped-up Cadbury’s Crunchie bars (chocolate-coated honeycomb) would be the perfect flavour combination and I wasn’t wrong.
As the Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream was coming out of the ice cream machine it was tough to resist diving straight in for a portion!
My daughter had helped me so I rewarded her with being allowed to scrape the bowl clean whilst I took the spoon – there was no talking we were just swept away in a moment of culinary euphoria.
So by dinner time, everyone was champing at the bit to have a portion of ice cream for dessert even though I’d wanted to let it freeze fully overnight.
Bowing to family pressure I served it a bit before it had fully set and as I was about to take my photos my camera decided after a couple of shots to stop working.
Ordinarily, this wouldn’t phase me but this was ice cream and it was melting fast so I ran up to find another battery as I didn’t know what else to do with a frozen flashing camera.
So please excuse the photographs for the slightly melted look but rest assured that it is delicious.
The Crunchie pieces aren’t that visible in my shots but they worked so well as a contrast to the smooth dairy salted caramel ice cream and when you hit them it’s just pure pleasure!
My hubby said my ice cream was better than Haagen Daaz and my children said it was out of this world too.
This Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream would be the most wonderful treat for a bonfire night party or Christmas for those who don’t like Christmas pudding or serve it with the Christmas pudding – ooh yum!
More Ice Cream Recipes
Here are some more ice cream recipes you should try!
- Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk – Fab Food 4 all
- Caramel Ice Cream with Easter Eggs – Fab Food 4 All
- Burnt Apple and Bourbon Ice Cream – Kavey Eats
- Banana Blueberry Ripple Ice Cream – Family Food Friends
- Easy Baileys Marbled Chocolate Ice Cream – Tin and Thyme
- Chai Latte Ice Cream – Munchies & Munchkins
- No Churn Oreo Ice Cream – Emily’s Recipes & Reviews
- Rhubarb and Raspberry Ice Cream – Supergolden Bakes
- Stem Ginger Ice Cream – Gingey Bites
- Maple Walnut Ice Cream – It’s not easy being greedy
Fun fact
Salted caramel originates from French and American chefs and Haagan Dazs introduced their Salted Caramel Ice Cream in the US in 2008 then six months later Starbucks started selling their Salted Caramel Hot chocolate over there.
The rest is history as they say!
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Salted Caramel Crunchie Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 90 g Light brown Muscovado sugar
- 50 g unsualted butter
- 300 ml warm semi skimmed milk
- 2 eggs
- 65 g caster sugar
- 1 tsp vanilla paste
- 300 ml double cream
- ½ tsp Maldon salt flakes
- 2 Cadbury’s Crunchie bars chocolate covered honeycomb
Instructions
- Place the Muscovado sugar and butter in a pan and heat until melted.
- Allow to bubble for 1 minute.
- Add the warm milk, stirring until gently heated through.
- Beat the eggs and sugar until thoroughly mixed then stir in the warm milk mixture and vanilla paste.
- Use a sieve to strain the mixture back into the pan.
- Stir over a low heat until the custard thickens slightly (it mustn’t boil or simmer or will curdle). It should just coat the back of a spoon.
- Cool the custard by pouring it into a bowl and place it in a larger bowl, a third full of iced water – this takes about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile whisk the double cream lightly (until forms floppy peaks, you don’t want stiff cream). Place in the fridge until custard has cooled.
- Once the custard has cooled mix in the cream and salt flakes and put in the fridge for at least 10 minutes.
- Chop up the Crunchie bars into small nuggets (if you do this any earlier they just start to melt).
- Pour the ice cream mixture into an ice cream maker, switch on and then pour the Crunchie pieces down the shoot in order to mix them in.
- Once the ice cream is ready, spoon it into a suitable container (if you can wait) and allow it to freeze fully for a few hours before serving.
Sarah Bailey
Oh my goodness what a delicious sounding desert – I do love a good ice cream. x
Camilla
Thanks Sarah:)
StressedMum
This sounds amazing, me and my daughter love making ice cream together x
Camilla
Thanks, yes I waited for my daughter to get back from school as she wanted to help me!
Sus @ roughmeasures.com
Ooh this looks ever so moorish! Thanks for linking my ice cream.
Camilla
Thanks Sus, it really is fab:-)
Debi @ Life Currents
Nom nom nommy! This looks so good! I would eat the whole thing right now! Yum!
Camilla
Thanks Debi, I don’t blame you!
April J Harris
Crunchie Bars are a secret vice of mine and I know I would love this beautiful ice cream! Love all the wonderful flavours – I could eat bowls and bowls of this!
Camilla
Your secret is out now LOL – thanks, you’ll just have to make some now April:-)
Choclette
Oh but melting ice cream looks delightful Camilla. I commend your willpower for holding off until dinner, I adore salted caramel anything and not at all sure I could have held out.
Camilla
Thank you Choclette, I was so at 2 ends of the scale with euphoria over the lush ice cream followed by stress of camera playing up and wanting to do it justice!
Prateek
Salted caramel i literally my favorite Ice Cream flavor! Great recipe!
Camilla
Thanks Prateek:-)
peter @feedyoursoultoo
This looks delicious. How fun. Do we need to tell the kids we made ice cream?
Camilla
LOL Peter, you’re evil (but no best not tell the kids if you can help it)!
Laura@howtocookgoodfood
I wish I could have a scoop right now Camilla, you have created a winning flavour here especially love the added Crunchie. This is definitely getting made soon! Thanks for including my fig ice cream :))
Camilla
Thank you Laura, it’s amazing the inspiration you get wondering around the aisles at Tesco:-)
Jeanne Horak-Druiff
This ice-cream is my idea of heaven!! And in other news, great minds think alike. Have a look at what I posted this week 😉
Camilla
Thanks Jeanne, yes I just saw, definitely some kind of psychic connection going on between us:-) Wonder if we can do it again LOL;-)