Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Ice Cream

We use brown sugar and butter to give the ice cream a deeper butterscotch flavor. The homemade butterscotch candy bits are oh so buttery and sweet, and the cashew bits add a satisfying crunchiness.

Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Ice Cream

This ice cream is made in three steps. Make the Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Candy, cool it, and crumble it. Then make the Butterscotch ice cream. After the ice cream is frozen, mix in the crumbled candy.

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Servings: 5 cups

Ingredients Instructions Notes

Ingredients

  

Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Candy

• ½ cup Roasted salted cashews (=60 g)
• ½ cup White sugar (=96 g)
• 1 Tbsp Butter, melted (=14 g)

Butterscotch Flavor

• 2 Tbsp Butter, melted (=28 g)
• ¾ cup Brown sugar ( =134 g)
• ½ tsp Vanilla

Ice Cream Base Mix

• 1 cup Whole milk (=240 g)
• 2 Whole pasteurized eggs (Large eggs)
• 1 Dash Salt
• 2 cups Heavy whipping cream ( =444 g, add later)

Instructions

 

Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Candy

1. Chop the cashews and set aside.
2. Put the white sugar into a heavy saucepan. Heat on medium high heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon until fully melted. You can check the temperature with an IR thermometer. It will begin to melt at about 315 F, and will be fully melted at 400 F.
3. When sugar is fully melted, add the 1 Tbsp melted butter and stir for 30 seconds.
4. Add the chopped cashews and stir for 30 seconds. Pour out onto a silicone mat on a cookie sheet. Cool.
5. Once cool, lift the butterscotch cashew mix off the silicone mat and put it into double layer Ziplock bags, and smash with a rubber mallet or other instrument to make fairly small crumbles.

Butterscotch Flavor

1. Put the butterscotch flavor ingredients in a blender.

Ice Cream Base Mix

1. Add the ice cream base mix ingredients except whipping cream to the blender. Blend on High for 1 minute.
2. Add whipping cream. Blend on Medium setting for 30 seconds.
3. Freeze in ice cream machine.

Combine

1. Just as the ice cream finishes freezing, pour in the Butterscotch Cashew Crunch Candy crumbles and turn for a few seconds to mix them in.

Notes

We replaced the white sugar that is normally part of our ice cream base mix with brown sugar to give the ice cream a deeper butterscotch flavor.