A Canadian favorite! This sweet ice cream actually stays soft even after a week.
Preparation Details
Prep Time: 30 mins
Cook Time: 35 mins
Total Time: 4 hrs 5 mins
Servings: 8
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups heavy whipping cream
- 5 egg yolks
- 1 ½ cups milk
- 2 tablespoons white sugar
- 1 tablespoon corn syrup (Optional)
- ¾ cup maple syrup
- ⅛ teaspoon coarse salt
- ¼ teaspoon vanilla extract
Steps
- Pour cream into a large bowl and set a mesh strainer over the bowl. Whisk egg yolks together in a separate bowl.
- Heat milk, sugar, and corn syrup together in a saucepan over medium-low heat until milk begins to steam, about 5 minutes. Slowly pour about 1/2 cup heated milk into the egg yolks, whisking constantly. Scrape egg yolk mixture into the saucepan with a heatproof spatula.
- Cook and stir milk mixture constantly with the spatula, scraping the bottom of the saucepan often, until mixture thickens and coats the spatula, about 10 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat; pour mixture through the mesh strainer into the cream.
- Stir 3/4 cup maple syrup, coarse salt, and vanilla into cream mixture, then place the bowl over a larger bowl of ice water; stir to cool to room temperature. Chill mixture in the refrigerator, about 2 hours.
- Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Spread walnuts onto a baking sheet.
- Toast walnuts in the preheated oven until they turn golden brown and become fragrant, about 15 minutes. Set nuts aside to cool to room temperature. Chop nuts coarsely.
- Heat the 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon maple syrup in a saucepan until it comes to a boil. Stir in walnuts, and return to a boil. Stir nuts for 10 seconds, remove from heat; set aside to cool completely. The nuts will be wet and sticky when cooled.
- Remove cream mixture from the refrigerator, pour into your ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions. During the last few minutes of churning, stir in wet walnuts.
