Internet hit tested: ice cream bread
What if you hear that you can make a loaf of bread with just two ingredients, one of which is ICE CREAM – you’d want to try that, right?! We did. And this is what we thought of it…
This recipe for ice cream bread had been floating around for a while, and elicited more or less the same reaction from everyone in the editorial office, namely ‘huh’? Would it work, but more importantly: would it taste good?
Easy-peasy bake
It really couldn’t be easier. And this was clearly going to be a ‘bread’ in the same way that banana bread is a ‘bread’. Which, if you’re honest, is of course just something you tell yourself so you can eat cake for breakfast.
How then
Let 300 grams of ice cream melt completely. The flavor doesn’t matter, but don’t use plant-based or light ice cream. Then fold in 150 grams of self-rising flour. Baking logic tells us that in this case the ice cream is basically the fat (egg and cream), while the self-rising flour is the flour with baking powder and salt. So it should work. Next, you can go wild with your supply of sprinkles (optional, so they don’t count as an ingredient), which certainly helps reinforce the idea that this could be a cheerful loaf. Then spoon the mixture into a greased loaf tin (you can line it with baking paper first, but I’m usually too lazy for that) and bake it for 40 minutes at 180° C.
So? Tell us!
First of all, it’s obviously difficult to leave ice cream alone until it melts without sneaking bites of it. Apart from that, I think I was happiest when the sprinkles went into the batter. That really does cheer you up.
After that, things went downhill. It took longer than expected in the oven and looked pretty pathetic because, once the batter was already in the tin, I found some more sprinkles in the jar and randomly scattered them over the top. Okay, that was my own fault, but the overall result?
Yuck
Then it didn’t smell good at all; in fact, it smelled a bit cloying and eggy, the bottom remained soggy (even after an extra ten minutes at a lower temperature), and when we tasted it, none of the ice cream’s sweetness was left. There we were, with a soggy, stinky loaf containing blue spots. The children, who usually devour my (admittedly mediocre) baking like happy hyenas, cheering with delight, delivered the ice cream bread’s death sentence: disgusting.
So?
Take it from us; you can skip this one. You’d be better off spending some time on something genuinely delicious. You don’t have to immediately decorate macarons with gold-lacquered handmade miniature dragons, but with just a little more effort you can reward yourself with, for example, a frozen margarita pie, a cheerful Dutch Baby or, of course, that good old banana bread!
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