Halva ice cream in three glorious flavours

With children, however, their natural instincts kick in and with the warmer weather out come the costumes and the call for ice cream!

I love making ice cream and although I have a small ice cream machine, sometimes I can just can't be bothered to take it out of the cupboard and I use this easy-peasy recipe that you can "churn" with the old-fashioned hand whisk.

I love experimenting with flavours, but with children somehow they like the familiarity and comfort of the classic vanilla, chocolate and caramel ice cream.

Halva ice cream in three glorious flavours

Makes one litre of ice cream

You make a classic vanilla ice-cream first

Ingredients:

• Two eggs
• 200ml (3/4 cup) caster sugar
• 250ml (1 cup) full cream milk
• 500ml (2 cups) cream
• ½ vanilla pod - inside scraped out

Method

Beat eggs and caster sugar in your mixing bowl until it is creamy and thick. Heat the milk and cream, and bring to just before boiling point. Add the cream, milk and vanilla, if making vanilla ice cream, to the egg mixture. Pour into a plastic container and place in the freezer. After 15 minutes, take the container from the freezer and, with a fork or whisk, just mix the ice cream again to prevent ice crystals from forming. Repeat the process again after 15 minutes and once more. Freeze until needed.

Chocolate

When heating the cream and milk, add one x 100g 70 percent chocolate to the mixture and allow to melt. Mix with the egg and sugar mixture. Now crumble 50gr Mediterranean Delicacies Chocolate Halva to the ice cream mixture and pop in the freezer or ice cream machine. Follow rest of recipe as above.

Almond and hazelnut

Make the basic vanilla ice cream and add 125ml chopped, toasted, shelled hazelnuts and 50g Mediterranean Delicacies Almond Halva to the ice cream mixture. Follow rest of method as above.

Pistachio

Make the basic vanilla ice cream and add 125ml chopped, toasted, shelled pistachios and 50g Mediterranean Delicacies Vanilla Halva to the ice cream mixture. Follow rest of method as above.

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