Nuts add a wonderful crunch and taste to many ice cream recipes. However, raw nuts can get soft and soggy when immersed in liquid or frozen ingredients for a long time. Nuts in ice cream taste best when they are chopped, buttered, salted, and roasted ahead of time. You can buy some nuts, like peanuts, cashews, and pistachios already roasted and salted and all you have to do is chop them up and add them to the ice cream after it is frozen. Other nuts, like walnuts and almonds, are usually raw.
Properly roasted nuts will stay crunchy and delicious for months in frozen ice cream. It is easy to do. Here are the steps.
