Best 20 Maple Ice Cream Recipes

MAPLE-WALNUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, heat half-and-half to 175°; stir in the sugar. Cool quickly by placing pan in a bowl of ice water; stir for 2 minutes. Stir in whipping cream and extracts., Fill cylinder of ice cream freezer two-thirds full; freeze according to manufacturer's directions. During the last 5 minutes, add half of the syrup and walnuts. Refrigerate remaining mixture until ready to freeze; repeat the process, adding remaining syrup and walnuts. Transfer to a freezer container; freeze for 2-4 hours before serving., In a heavy saucepan over medium heat, melt caramels with milk. Stir in chocolate chips until melted. Stir in cream until blended. Remove from the heat. Stir in walnuts and vanilla. Serve warm over ice cream. Refrigerate leftover sauce.

MAPLE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Whisk 1/2 cup maple syrup and egg yolks together in a medium bowl. Set aside.
• Stir remaining maple syrup, half-and-half, cream, and salt together in a medium saucepan. Heat over medium-high heat, stirring often, until simmering. Reduce heat to medium.
• Add about 1/2 cup of the hot cream mixture to the egg mixture. Whisk constantly to prevent the eggs from cooking. Repeat with another 1/2 cup of the cream mixture. Pour egg mixture into the saucepan, stirring constantly with a heatproof spatula. Cook, stirring constantly, until custard thickens and coats the back of the spatula, 1 to 2 minutes longer. Remove from heat.
• Strain custard through a fine-mesh sieve set over a clean bowl. Whisk in vanilla extract. Set the bowl in an ice bath and stir the custard occasionally until cooled to room temperature, 15 to 30 minutes.
• Remove the bowl from the ice bath, cover with plastic wrap, and refrigerate for 2 to 4 hours, or overnight.
• Churn cold custard in an ice cream maker, according to manufacturer's instructions, until it reaches the consistency of soft serve. Serve right away or cover tightly with plastic wrap and freeze until firm.

MAPLE WALNUT ICE CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• In a heavy saucepot combine the maple syrup, brown sugar, butter and water.
• Stir over medium heat until mixture comes to a boil.
• Over low heat simmer until slightly thickened which takes about ten minutes.
• Stir in the cream, vanilla, and nuts.
• Cool to room temperature before using so it will thicken to right consistency.
• Makes 1 cup of sauce.

MAPLE-PEACH ICE CREAM TOPPING

Steps:

• Cut each peach in half, remove pit, and cut each half into 6 slices.
• Melt butter in a medium saucepan over medium-high heat until slightly browned, 2 to 4 minutes. Place peach slices into the butter, reduce heat to medium-low, and cook for 3 minutes, turning carefully. Add maple syrup, lemon zest, and nutmeg to the pot and cook for 2 to 3 more minutes.
• Allow to cool slightly before serving.

MAPLE BUTTER-PECAN ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Coarsely chop pecans. In a skillet melt butter over moderate heat until foam subsides. Toast pecans in butter, stirring occasionally, until golden and fragrant, about 5 minutes, and sprinkle with salt to taste. Cool pecans and chill in a sealable plastic bag. Buttered pecans may be made 3 days ahead and chilled.
• In a heavy saucepan bring cream, milk, maple syrup, and salt just to a boil, stirring occasionally. In a bowl beat yolks until smooth. Add hot cream mixture to yolks in a slow stream, whisking, and pour into pan. Cook custard over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until a thermometer registers 170° F. Pour custard through a sieve into a clean bowl and cool. Stir in extract. Chill custard, its surface covered with plastic wrap, at least 3 hours, or until cold, and up to 1 day.
• Freeze custard in an ice-cream maker. Transfer ice cream to a bowl and fold in chilled pecans. Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden. Ice cream may be made 1 week ahead.

SALTED PECAN-MAPLE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Place pecans into a heavy saucepan over medium heat and toast the nuts, stirring constantly, until fragrant, 1 to 2 minutes.
• Sprinkle 2 tablespoons sugar over pecans and stir constantly until the sugar melts to a light brown syrup and coats the pecans. Immediately pull the pan off the heat; sprinkle with 1/2 teaspoon sea salt.
• Turn hot pecans out onto a piece of parchment paper and cool thoroughly; break apart any large clumps. Set candied pecans aside.
• Whisk 3/4 cup sugar, maple syrup, eggs, vanilla extract, and maple flavoring in a large bowl until smooth. Slowly whisk in half-and-half.
• Pour mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. Mix the candied pecans into the softly-frozen ice cream. Sprinkle servings with a pinch of coarsely ground sea salt.

HOMEMADE MAPLE-WALNUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, heat the milk to 175°. Combine eggs and honey. Whisk in a small amount of the hot mixture to the egg mixture. Return all to the pan, whisking constantly., Cook over low heat until mixture coats the back of a metal spoon and a thermometer reads at least 160°, stirring constantly. Do not allow to boil. Remove from heat immediately. , Quickly transfer to a large bowl; place bowl in a pan of ice water. Stir gently and occasionally for 2 minutes. Stir in cream and maple flavoring. Press plastic wrap onto surface of custard. Refrigerate several hours or overnight., Fill cylinder of ice cream freezer two-thirds full; freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. For each batch, add some of the walnuts during the 5 minutes of processing. (Refrigerate any remaining mixture until ready to freeze.) Transfer ice cream to freezer containers, allowing headspace for expansion. Freeze 2-4 hours or until firm.

MAPLE PRALINE ICE-CREAM SAUCE

Steps:

• In a 2-quart heavy saucepan combine maple syrup, sugar, salt, and cream and cook mixture over moderately low heat, stirring and washing down any sugar crystals clinging to side with a brush dipped in cold water, until sugar is dissolved. Boil mixture over moderate heat, undisturbed, until thickened and a candy thermometer registers 220°F. Stir in butter and pecans, stirring until butter is melted, and cool sauce until warm. Sauce keeps, covered and chilled, 1 week. Serve sauce warm over ice cream.

MAPLE-BACON CRUNCH ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Make the ice cream: Whisk the egg yolks, sugar and salt in a bowl until pale yellow. Transfer to a saucepan and whisk in the milk. Cook over medium heat, stirring, until almost simmering (the mixture should be thick enough to coat a spoon). Stir in the maple syrup. Transfer to a bowl and refrigerate until cold, about 30 minutes.
• Make the bacon brittle: Butter a rimmed baking sheet. Cook the bacon in a medium skillet over medium heat until crisp, about 5 minutes per side; transfer to paper towels to drain. Let the bacon cool, then very finely chop.
• Cook the sugar in a saucepan over medium-high heat, stirring constantly, until it melts and turns golden, about 4 minutes. (If lumps form, remove from the heat and continue stirring until melted.) Continue to cook, stirring, until light amber, about 2 more minutes. Remove from the heat and immediately stir in the butter. Carefully stir in the baking soda, then the bacon and chile powder. Pour onto the prepared baking sheet and let cool until set, about 15 minutes. Break into bite-size pieces, then smash about one-third of the brittle into shards with a meat mallet or heavy skillet. Reserve the remaining brittle in a container for up to 3 days.
• Stir the cream into the chilled custard. Churn in an ice cream maker. Stir in the bacon brittle shards. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze until firm, at least 2 hours.

BACON MAPLE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Bacon:.
• Pre Heat oven to 400°F.
• mix the 1 tablespoon of syrup and the 1/4 cup brown sugar to form a paste.
• Lay the bacon out on a cooling rack on a lined sheet pan (lining the sheet pan will save you some nasty clean up.
• Spread the paste on one side of the bacon and then bake for 10 minutes.
• Pull out bacon and turn each slice over. Spread the paste the other side of the bacon and out back in the oven for another 10 minutes.
• Pull bacon out and turn it over again, then bake for another 5-10 minutes, or until bacon is evenly glazed.
• Cool completely and then chop into small pieces.
• Maple Ice Cream:.
• Combine all the ice cream ingredients except the bacon in a medium sauce pan and heat to 170°F.
• Cool completely before adding to your ice ream maker.
• Follow you ice cream makers directions, but the basics are
• make sure you machine has been in the freezer for 24 hours and that the mixture is chilled completely.
• add the mixture to the machine while it's running.
• wait until the ice cream is at a soft serve consistancy before adding the bacon pieces.
• Put the ice cream in an airtight container and put in the freezer for a few hours before enjoying.

MAPLE WALNUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Boil syrup in a 2 quart heavy saucepan over moderately high heat until reduced to 3/4 cup, 5 to 10 minutes.
• Stir in cream, milk and salt and bring to a boil over moderate heat.
• Whisk eggs in a large bow, then add hot cream in a slow stream, whisking.
• Transfer to a saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring constantly, until slightly thickened and an instant read thermometer registers 170*F, 1 to 2 minutes (do not let boil!).
• Pour custard through a fine sieve into a clean metal bowl, then cool, stirring occasionally.
• Chill, covered, until cold, at least 3 hours.
• Freeze custard in an ice-cream maker until soft frozen, then with motor running, add nuts.
• Continue churning ice cream until frozen, then transfer to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden.

PEANUT BUTTER MAPLE ICE CREAM PIE

Steps:

• In a large bowl, combine the ice cream, syrup and peanut butter until smooth. Transfer half into each crust. Cover and freeze for 2-3 hours. Just before serving, sprinkle with peanuts.

MAPLE SPICE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan over medium heat, reduce maple syrup by half, about 10 minutes.
• Meanwhile, in a separate saucepan over medium-low heat, simmer one cup cream with cardamom pods, cloves, cinnamon and salt, stirring occasionally until cream begins to simmer, about 5 minutes. Allow to stand, off heat, for 20 minutes.
• Strain into a bowl, discarding spices. Stir in reduced maple syrup, remaining cup cream and the milk. Transfer bowl to refrigerator or set into an ice bath to chill.
• When cold, pour into bowl of an ice cream machine and churn according to manufacturer's directions. Transfer to a container and freeze until solid, at least 2 hours. Let sit at room temperature for 5 to 10 minutes before serving, or in refrigerator for 15 to 30 minutes.

CINNAMON PANCAKES WITH ICE-CREAM AND MAPLE SYRUP

Steps:

• PANCAKES combine the flours and cinnamon in a medium bowl.
• Put the milk, syrup and egg white in a small bowl and whisk to combine.
• Add to flour mixture and mix until well combined.
• Spray a large non stick frying pan with cooking spray and heat on medium.
• To make 1 pancake and 1 tablespoon of batter to the pan and spread out slightly and then add another 2 tablespoons of batter to pan to make 2 more pancakes and cook for 2 minutes or until bubbles appear on the surface and then turn pancakes over and then cook for a further 1 minute or until cooked through and then transfer to a large plate lines with a clean tea towel and cover pancakes to keep warm.
• Repeat with remaining batter to make a total of 16 pancakes.
• Divide pancakes between plates and top with a scoop of icecream and drizzle with the maple syrup.
• TIP to cut coking time in half, you can use two large frying pans at the same time.

CHOCOLATE MAPLE SAUCE ON MAPLE-WALNUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, bring syrup to a boil. Remove from heat; add chocolate, butter, and salt. Whisk until smooth. (To store sauce, cover and refrigerate up to 2 weeks; warm in the microwave or on the stove over low heat.)
• To serve, divide ice cream among four serving bowls; top with sauce.

MAPLE WALNUT ICE CREAM (DAIRY FREE)

Steps:

• Place banana, maple syrup, cinnamon and vanilla extract in a food processor and allow the motor to run until it's smooth and creamy. Stop and break up large clumps with a spatula as needed.
• Stir in walnut pieces.
• **Tips: Can easily double.
• **If you are not going to eat right away put in freezer safe container with a lid being sure to stir every hour or so to keep it from getting too icy.

"FRENCH TOAST" NAPOLEON WITH MAPLE SYRUP, PECANS AND ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 200 degrees F.
• Slice the bread into 1/2-inch slices and remove crusts. Use a glass or a biscuit cutter to cut out circles from the middles.
• Melt about a half a stick of butter in small skillet. Spoon off all the milky solids from the top to clarify the butter.
• In another large skillet, add about half of the clarified butter and brown the bread rounds on each side, adding more butter as needed. Keep finished slices warm in the oven while the remaining slices are prepared, repeating the process.
• Crush the toasted pecans and heat with the maple syrup and cinnamon in a small saucepan until steaming.
• Stack the browned bread slices, 3 high, alternating with a spoonful of hot pecan maple syrup between each layer.
• Top stacks with scoop of vanilla ice cream and drizzle pecan maple syrup on top.

MAPLE CARAMEL SAUCE FOR ICE CREAM SERVED AT 2013 OBAMA INAUGURAL

Steps:

• In a small saucepan over medium-high heat, melt the butter. Add brown sugar and salt.
• Cook, stirring constantly, until the sugar is completely dissolved. Adjust heat to medium and boil 2 minutes longer.
• Add maple syrup and boil again for about another 2-4 minutes, stirring frequently, until the sauce is thick, smooth and coats a metal spoon.
• Remove from heat and keep warm for serving over Sour Cream Ice Cream.

MAPLE WALNUT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Pour cream into a large bowl and set a mesh strainer over the bowl. Whisk egg yolks together in a separate bowl.
• Heat milk, sugar, and corn syrup together in a saucepan over medium-low heat until milk begins to steam, about 5 minutes. Slowly pour about 1/2 cup heated milk into the egg yolks, whisking constantly. Scrape egg yolk mixture into the saucepan with a heatproof spatula.
• Cook and stir milk mixture constantly with the spatula, scraping the bottom of the saucepan often, until mixture thickens and coats the spatula, about 10 minutes. Remove saucepan from heat; pour mixture through the mesh strainer into the cream.
• Stir 3/4 cup maple syrup, coarse salt, and vanilla into cream mixture, then place the bowl over a larger bowl of ice water; stir to cool to room temperature. Chill mixture in the refrigerator, about 2 hours.
• Preheat oven to 275 degrees F (135 degrees C). Spread walnuts onto a baking sheet.
• Toast walnuts in the preheated oven until they turn golden brown and become fragrant, about 15 minutes. Set nuts aside to cool to room temperature. Chop nuts coarsely.
• Heat the 1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon maple syrup in a saucepan until it comes to a boil. Stir in walnuts, and return to a boil. Stir nuts for 10 seconds, remove from heat; set aside to cool completely. The nuts will be wet and sticky when cooled.
• Remove cream mixture from the refrigerator, pour into your ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions. During the last few minutes of churning, stir in wet walnuts.

MAPLE ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Fill a large bowl with ice water; set aside. In small saucepan, bring cream to a boil. Add sugar, remove from heat and stir in syrup, vanilla bean and scrapings. Whisk about 1/4 cup cream mixture into egg yolks, then whisk yolks back into remainder of cream. Strain into clean pan.
• Return pan to medium-low heat and stir until custard is thick enough to coat back of a wooden spoon. Pour into a heatproof bowl and set in ice water until completely cooled. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.