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Strawberries & cream vanilla bean 'Nice Cream'
A delicious Canadian dessert that really doesn't need to say 'sorry'.
SERVES
4
Ingredients
- 2 tablespoons butter, divided
- 125 millilitres organic apple cider
- 1 tablespoon honey
- 1 tablespoon all-purpose flour
- 2 star anise gloves, whole
- 250 millilitres heavy cream 35%
- 4 frozen banana's, sliced in half
- 1 vanilla bean pod, sliced and seeds scrapped
- 85% dark cacao, grated to garnish
Directions
- Place banana’s into the freezer for minimum two to three hours to fully thaw.
- In a medium sauce pan pot over medium to high heat combine the butter, honey and flour and cook for one minute until a paste. Add the apple cider, star anise, heavy cream and cook down until sauce has thickened. Remove from heat until needed keeping warm.
- When ready to serve using a food processor add the frozen sliced bananas, fresh Vanilla Bean, and remaining butter.
- Blend together until the mixture looks like soft serve ice cream (approximately one to two minutes).
- To serve, spoon a big heap of vanilla “nice cream” followed by the fresh Ontario strawberries and ladle over the cream sauce and grate the 85% cacao overtop!
