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Carrot Cake Ice Cream

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This recipe was entered in the contest for Your Best Carrot Recipe

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marcella_missirian's Notes: Growing up in the Inland Empire, summers were hot and looking for ways to cool down in my grandmother's very old Spanish style house in the heritage part of town, was all my cousins and I...
Growing up in the Inland Empire, summers were hot and looking for ways to cool down in my grandmother's very old Spanish style house in the heritage part of town, was all my cousins and I were occupied with. We made a version of this ice cream as children with left over carrot cake, fresh dairy cream from our grandfather's ranch and nuts from Hadley farms. No one every wrote it down to my dismay but I came across this similar recipe from David Lebovitz recently and much to my delight, its very similar to what I remembered was an ambrosia treat as a child.

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Makes 1 quart

Spiced Pecans, Candied Carrots, Soaked Currants:

1 cup Pecan Halves Ask a question about this ingredient

1 tablespoon Butter, melted Ask a question about this ingredient

1 teaspoon cinnamon Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 teaspoon Ground Cloves Ask a question about this ingredient

2 tablespoons Dark Brown Sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

1/8 teaspoon salt Ask a question about this ingredient

1/4 cup Dried Currants Ask a question about this ingredient

2 tablespoons Maker's Mark Bourbon or Bourbon of your choice Ask a question about this ingredient

2 cups Finely Diced Carrots Ask a question about this ingredient

2/3 cups Sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

2 tablespoons Light Corn Syrup Ask a question about this ingredient

2 cups Water Ask a question about this ingredient

Ice Cream Base:

8 ounces Cream Cheese Ask a question about this ingredient

1 1/2 cup Low Fat Sour Cream (or full fat) Ask a question about this ingredient

2/3 cups Sugar Ask a question about this ingredient

1 tablespoon Chopped Lemon Zest (micro plane works) Ask a question about this ingredient

Spiced Pecans, first 6 ingredients of part 1 ingredients - Heat the oven to 350 degrees. Toss the pecans with the butter. In a small bowl, whisk together the cinnamon, cloves, brown sugar and salt. Pour the mixture over the pecans and toss to coat completely. Spread the pecans on a baking sheet and cook for 12 minutes, gently stirring halfway during baking to candy the nuts. Remove the tray to a rack and cool the nuts completely. Once cool, coarsely chop the pecans. Set aside.
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Maker's-Soaked Currants, ingredients 7 and 8 of part 1 ingredients - In a small saucepan, heat the currants and bourbon until boiling. Simmer until the currants have absorbed almost all of the liquid. Remove from heat and cover the pan. Set aside to cool completely.
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Candied Carrots, last 4 ingredients of part 1 ingredients - In a medium saucepan, combine the carrots, sugar, corn syrup and water. Bring to a low boil and cook until the syrup is reduced to about 2 tablespoons and the carrots are translucent and candied, 20 to 30 minutes. Keep an eye on the carrots during the last few minutes so they do not burn. Drain the carrots and set aside to cool.
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Ice Cream Base - In the bowl of a stand mixer, or in a large bowl using a hand mixer, blend together the cream cheese, sour cream, sugar and lemon zest until smooth. Chill thoroughly. Freeze the base in an ice cream maker - use ice cream maker's directions (I use Cuisinart). After churning, gently fold in the spiced pecans, soaked currants and candied carrot cubes. Freeze until firm.
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