Dessert & Baked Goods » Chocolate-Hazelnut Ice Cream Pie
Ingredients
Chocolate Cookie Crust
- 1½ cups crushed chocolate sandwich cookies
- 4 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
Frangelico Ice cream
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 1 cup half & half
- ½ cup sugar
- 4 egg yolks
- 2 tsp vanilla bean paste
- 5 tbsp Frangelico
Nutella Ganache
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ¾ cup dark chocolate chips
- 4 tbsp chocolate-hazelnut spread (Nutella suggested)
- 1 tbsp light corn syrup
For Assembly
- 8 tbsp nutella
- ½ cup roasted hazelnuts, chopped
- sea salt to sprinkle
How-to
Make Ice Cream
- Bring cream, half & half, and sugar to just scant a boil
- In a separate bowl, whisk egg yolks with vanilla. Start to drizzle in hot cream mixture, whisking constantly until about half of the cream is tempered into the egg yolks
- Add back to the pot with remaining cream and cook over low heat till thickened, 1-2 minutes
- Strain, add Frangelico, then cool to room temperature. Transfer to the refrigerator and chill at least 4 hours, stirring every so often
- Add to ice cream machine and process according to manufacturer’s instructions. Freeze until firm, 2-3 hours
Make Crust
- Preheat oven to 350º
- Mix melted butter with crumbs
- Fill mini pie tins with about 2 tbsp crumb mixture per tin. Press against bottom and up sides
- Bake for 5 minutes, remove and let cool
- Make Nutella Ganache
- Bring heavy cream to a scald over medium heat. Pour over chocolate and stir to melt
- Add nutella and corn syrup. Set aside to cool slightly
Assemble
- Spread 1 tbsp of nutella in bottom of each pie shell
- Place 1 scoop of ice cream on top and freeze for 15 minutes till firm
- Spoon room temperature ganache over top of the ice cream to cover
- Sprinkle with toasted, chopped hazelnuts and a dash of sea salt
Meghan McGarry
Raised in Bronx, NY, Meghan was three years into her pursuit of a Finance Degree from Manhattan College when she realized that a life of crunching numbers was not going to be a "piece of cake." As baking was her true passion, she attended the French Culinary Institute where she graduated with a degree in Pastry Arts. After moving to Boston in 2003, she has worked as pastry chef at Rustic Kitchen as well as overseeing a commissary that produced baked goods for three restaurants in Cambridge, MA. Today, you can find Meghan working as a consulting pastry chef, as well as surrounded by her favorite color pink in her Cambridge kitchen, whipping up delectable pastry treats and making eye-popping, taste bud-rocking wedding cakes.
Meghan McGarry challenges all that we know about frozen treats with these grown-up and glammed-up chocolate-hazelnut ice cream pies. Creamy, heaping scoops of homemade Frangelico ice cream are layered in individual pie molds with chocolate-hazelnut ganache. A crunchy chocolate cookie crust holds it all together. The pies are then topped with chopped hazelnuts and finished in the freezer until they're ready to serve. Life can be hard sometimes. You deserve this.
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