Hot Ice Cream Balls Recipes

ICE CREAM BALLS

Steps:

• In a shallow bowl, combine cereal, sugar and butter. Add nuts. Shape ice cream into 1-in. balls; roll in cereal mixture until well coated. , Freeze for at least 1 hour. If desired, serve with fudge or caramel ice cream topping and cherries.

HOT ICE CREAM BALLS

Steps:

• For success with this recipe, it is important when making these ice-cream balls to have everything as COLD as possible.
• Ice-cream MUST BE VERY HARD and should be a good quality full cream ice-cream.
• Put a scone (biscuit) tray into freezer before starting to make the ice-cream balls, so it too is very cold.
• ICE-CREAM BALLS: Remove ice-cream container from the freezer, scoop ice-cream into balls with an ice-cream scoop*, put onto prepared tray, return to freezer until hard.
• Then, working very quickly, coat one or two ice-cream balls lightly in flour, dip in combined beaten eggs and milk, then coat firmly with breadcrumbs.
• Place immediately on tray in freezer; repeat with remaining ice-cream balls.
• Freeze the crumbed ice-cream balls until very hard, then repeat"egg-and-breadcrumbing" to give them a firm well covered coating.
• They can now be left for several days until you wish to cook and serve them.
• Cooking Ice-cream Balls: To fry, place ice-cream balls, two at a time, into deep hot oil, fry for 30 seconds or until golden brown, place on absorbent paper.
• Serve immediately with Hot Caramel Sauce or Hot Chocolate Sauce or any of your favourite dessert sauces.
• CARAMEL SAUCE: Put butter and sugar into a pan, stir over heat until butter has melted, add combined remaining ingredients, stir over low heart until sugar dissolves, increase heat, bring to boil.
• Reduce heat, simmer 3 minutes, stirring constantly.
• Sauce can be made ahead of time and warm through.
• *TIP: Dip ice-cream scoop into a glass of water when scooping hard ice-cream into balls.

CHOCOLATE COVERED ICE-CREAM BALLS

Steps:

• Sprinkle gelatine over water in a small bowl.
• Place bowl over a container of hot water until the gelatine is dissolved, then cool.
• Beat ice-cream until creamy, add gelatine and liqueur and beat until just combined.
• Pour ice-cream mixture into a container and freeze for several hours or overnight until firm.
• Before making these ball put an oven tray into freezer to become very cold.
• Working very quickly using a melon baller scoop out balls of ice-cream and put on cold tray. It helps to dip the melon baller into cold water before rolling out each ball.
• Place tray with balls, back into the freezer and freeze until firm.
• Remove tray from feezer and push small wooden sticks (toothpicks) into each ball at a slight angle then replace tray in freezer.
• Once you get to this stage put chocolate and shortening in a bowl over simmering water to melt.
• Remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
• Pour chocolate into a small drinking glass then dip each ball into mixture, coating each one well.
• Put chocolate covered balls on to a cold tray and return to freezer until firm.

ICE CREAM BALLS

Steps:

• Mix graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, sugar & cinnamon.
• Make balls out of the ice cream and roll in dry mixture.
• Freeze.
• Serve with caramel topping.
• -To make the balls: Cut a square 1/2 gallon of ice cream into 4 equal slices. Then cut each slice into quarters. Mold into a ball with your hands and by rolling it in the dry mixture. Only work with 1-2 "slices" at a time or the rest will melt too much while sitting out. It will also melt quicker if you take too much time to form the balls.