Ingredients

Method

For the ice cream:
• 1 x 385 g can condensed milk
• 2½ t vanilla extract
• ¼ t salt
• 2 cups whipping cream
For the chocolate-fudge sauce:
• 1 x 385 g can condensed milk
• 1 x 380 g can Ideal evaporated milk
• 160 g milk chocolate , broken into small pieces
• 2 T sugar (optional and I wouldn’t)
• 300 g roasted and salted cashews (set some aside to sprinkle over the ice cream just before serving)

Method

Ingredients

1. To make the ice cream, mix the condensed milk, vanilla and salt in a bowl. Whip the cream until stiff peaks form.

2. Add a few spoons of whipped cream to the condensed milk and fold in gently to lighten the mixture. Pour the lightened condensed milk back into the remaining whipped cream and gently fold in.

3. Pour this mixture into a plastic freezer-friendly container or an old 2-litre ice cream tub and freeze for 2 hours.

4. To make the chocolate-fudge sauce, place all the ingredients into a saucepan over a low heat, stirring continuously, until all the chocolate bits have melted.

5. Once the chocolate has melted, allow the mixture to boil gently, stirring continuously. Once small bubbles start forming, take it off the heat and set aside to cool. This makes about 3 cups of chocolate sauce. It can be made ahead of time and stored in the fridge. It will thicken, but a few seconds in the microwave will soften it.

6. Once the ice cream is semi-set (after the two hours in the freezer) swirl in about 2 cups of the chocolate-fudge sauce and the cashews. Be careful not to overmix. You definitely don’t want chocolate ice cream, you want vanilla ice cream with thick “rivers” of chocolate-fudge sauce and cashews running through it. Return to the freezer for another 8 hours.

7. Serve with some of the remaining chocolate-fudge sauce poured on top, or go wild and make suburban sundaes. Scoop the ice cream into a sundae glass, pour over the remaining chocolate-fudge sauce and top with cashews, chocolate peanuts and Woolworths gingerbread Chuckles. You know. So extra.

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Photograph: Jan Ras 
Production: Bianca Strydom
Food assistant: Ellah Maepe