Chocolate and Marrons Glacés Ice Cream

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6–8

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Claire Macdonald Cookbook

By Claire Macdonald

Published 1997

  • About

This is one of my favourite chocolatey ice creams. The contrast in texture between the smooth, rich ice cream and the pieces of marron glacé is quite delicious.

Ingredients

  • 3 oz/84 g caster sugar
  • 6 tbsp water

Method

Put the sugar and water into a saucepan and heat gently without letting the liquid boil until the sugar has dissolved completely, then boil fast for 3 minutes.

Meanwhile, break the chocolate into a blender or food processor. Pour the hot sugar syrup straight on to the chocolate, put the lid on and whiz – the noise will be horrendous but the chocolate soon melts in the heat of the syrup.