This is part two in our series of pizza appropriate savory ice creams. There was a point where we were just throwing out delicious herbs and thinking about how they were best used in savory foods. Browning sage in butter is one of the first steps in making an excellent Thanksgiving meal. And browned butter is just plain delicious and decadent.
The three important flavor components to our ice cream sandwiches
However, butter is not high on the roster of common ice cream flavors. It does play an important role in a great proportion of sweet baked goods, so we knew there had to be something to it. We were kind of clueless on how to make a browned butter into an ice cream component. Luckily, Jenni’s Splendid Ice Creams has a “Brown Butter Almond Brittle Ice Cream” that acted, very loosely, as our guide to this butter alchemy. We made a couple changes, namely lowering the amount of butter (she uses three sticks!) and the addition of some lemon zest and the substitution of light brown instead of white sugar. The results are surprisingly sweet and just the right amount of buttery.
After tasting the ice cream, we thought it would pair nicely with a shortbread, another dessert that prominently features butter. The recipe for a favorite Earl Grey Tea shortbread, which naturally highlights compliments the hints of citrus, follows the ice cream recipe. These ice cream sandwiches are like a butter explosion!
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