Ube Ice Cream Sandwich with Coconut White Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

Ube Ice Cream Sandwich with Coconut White Chocolate Chip Cookies Recipe

This towering ice cream sandwich uses ube, a bright purple Filipino yam, to flavour the ice cream and thick chocolate chip cookies for the 'sandwich'. Each of these elements is delicious in their own right, but they’re especially delightful sandwiched together into one phenomenal dessert.

    Ingredients

    Instructions

    1. Step 1

      Begin by preparing the ube ice cream. Add the cream and whole milk to a large saucepan and warm over a medium heat | Ingredients: 1 pint of whipping cream , 1 pint of whole milk
    2. Step 2

      Stir occasionally until the mix begins to steam
    3. Step 3

      Meanwhile whisk together the egg yolks, sugar and a pinch of salt until the mixture begins to lighten | Ingredients: 6 egg yolks , 7 1/16 oz of caster sugar , 1 pinch of table salt
    4. Step 4

      Slowly temper the mix with a little bit of the warm cream mixture, pouring a small amount of the cream into the egg mix while whisking
    5. Step 5

      Add everything back to the saucepan - all the egg and all the cream - and whisk until smooth
    6. Step 6

      Heat the mixture over a low heat until it’s thick enough to coat the back of a spoon. Stir the mixture while it thickens to make sure it heats evenly, and keep an eye on it so it doesn’t come to the boil and scramble
    7. Step 7

      Blend the thickened custard with the vanilla bean paste, ube extract and ube halaya until fully combined | Ingredients: 1 tbsp of vanilla bean paste , 1 tbsp of ube extract , 4 1/4 oz of ube halaya
    8. Step 8

      Strain the ice cream base through a fine sieve, then chill in the fridge until completely cold, or overnight. Once cold, churn in an ice cream maker and then transfer to the freezer to set
    9. Step 9

      For the white chocolate and coconut cookies, first add the softened butter along with both of the sugars and the egg to a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, then beat for around 4 minutes | Ingredients: 8 1/8 oz of unsalted butter, softened , 7 1/16 oz of caster sugar , 3 1/2 oz of soft light brown sugar , 2 eggs
    10. Step 10

      Once the mix is smooth, add in the vanilla and beat well | Ingredients: 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
    11. Step 11

      Add in the desiccated coconut, flour, sodium bicarbonate and salt and mix well until everything has just come together. Take care not to over mix it | Ingredients: 5 2/3 oz of desiccated coconut , 10 2/3 oz of plain flour , 1/2 tsp sodium bicarbonate , 1 pinch of table salt
    12. Step 12

      Fold in the chocolate chips with a rubber spatula | Ingredients: 8 3/4 oz of white chocolate chips, plus a handful extra for adding to the tops
    13. Step 13

      Line a baking tray with parchment paper then divide the dough into xx equal portions
    14. Step 14

      Cover the tray with plastic wrap and freeze for one hour
    15. Step 15

      Preheat the oven 175°C
    16. Step 16

      Bake the cookies for 15 minutes, then remove from the oven and swirl the warm cookies in a 7.5 cm ring cutter to form them into circles. Leave to cool on the baking tray
    17. Step 17

      To assemble, scoop out the ice cream and sandwich each scoop between two cooled cookies. To finish, roll the edges of the ice cream sandwich in desiccated coconut | Ingredients: 2 handfuls of desiccated coconut