Tuesday, 11 May 2010
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Hello Kitty Ice Cream Waffle Sandwiches
This is a guest post from Kirbie's Corner
I once had these ice cream sandwiches that were served on two freshly made waffles. I loved it. The hot, crispy waffles tasted great with the cold ice cream. So this weekend, I decided to use my Hello Kitty Waffle maker to make some ice cream sandwiches. For anyone who is curious where to get the waffle maker, there are some third party sellers that have it on amazon as well as ebay.
This weekend I also got a chance to use the ice cream maker I recently bought, for the first time. I chose to make some coconut ice cream because I found a recipe on David Lebovitz site which was really simple to make. I had all the ingredients necessary except the saffron threads, which I left out.
Making Hello Kitty Ice Cream Sandwiches ended up being a little trickier than I imagined, and next time I'll have to make some adjustments. One of the problems is the waffles. The Hello Kitty waffles are flat on the front side, but the back side has grids of normal waffles, except they extend out more than a typical waffle. So it's hard to squish the ice cream into these grids and it makes it harder to hold the ice cream sandwich together because it becomes so thick (as you can see in the photo below). Next time I think I will cut off part of the backside of these waffles, so I have a flatter surface to work with.
The other problem I encountered was working with homemade ice cream, which melts really fast. These ice cream sandwiches were dripping like crazy. Next time I might just use store bought ice cream. Or I might freeze the homemade ice cream in hello kitty-like molds, so then I can transfer the ice cream molds directly into the waffles without having to scoop the ice cream and squish it to fit.
These still came out really cute looking and they were fun to eat on such a warm Saturday afternoon. Also, the ice cream was really good if you like coconut ice cream. I don't think I'll buy coconut ice cream again. I'll just make my own.
For the waffles, I just used a Belgium waffle mix. For the ice cream, I used a modified version of this recipe:
Coconut Ice Cream (adapted from David Lebovitz's recipe)
Yields: approx 2 pints
Ingredients
1 1/3 cup heavy cream
2 cups coconut milk
1/2 cup cane sugarDirections
1. In a medium-sized saucepan, bring all the ingredients to a boil.2. Reduce the heat and simmer gently for ten minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat, and chill the mixture thoroughly. (I put mine in the fridge overnight)
3. Once chilled, freeze in your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's directions.
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Comments (64)
That is pretty cute. There was a blog not to long ago about hello kitty products over done or things that shouldn't be hello kitty i do not agree. I love what you've done thanks for the recipe ;)
thumbs up! sounds lovely! :]
I want to make these :D
A Hello Kitty waffle maker is absolutely adorable! And that recipe sounds really good!
You're seriously trying to overload on the cute, aren't you?
haha, so cute! I love Hello Kitty!
So cute and so yummy looking
omg that's soo cute! i want hello-kitty shaped waffles!
cute, but still would om nom nom nom...
nom nom! looks so yummy!
1) cute HK waffle maker
2) yummy
3) great job on the HK waffles and ice cream
im officially jealous.
I love this! Ice cream sandwiches, ftw!
Sounds delicious, and they're cute too!
CUTE! and looks delish as well :D nom nom nom
waffles + ice cream, classic
That is so cute! I already have 2 waffle irons so in the spirit of not spending more money than I need to, I'll just try out the ice cream recipe. The ice cream looks good and the recipe seems easy enough.
awwwwwww one day i'm gonna get my hands on the hello kitty waffle maker!!!
waffle + chocolate ice cream + powdered sugar = best dessert ever
Sounds delicious and looks adorable!
Their lovely ^_^
soooooo freaking cute
I love ice cream in the summer. =)
Uh I want some NOW.
i naaaaaw'd so much when i saw this.
nomnomnom
thats adorable & looks delish!!