Best El Toritos Deep Fried Ice Cream Recipes

Copycat El Torito Deep Fried Ice Cream image

Provided by Iron Woman

Time 2h15m

Yield 4 serving(s)

Number Of Ingredients 12

20 ounces chocolate chip ice cream
2 cups flaked four-grain cereal, crushed
1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
3 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
2 eggs
1 teaspoon water
4 flour tortillas
oil
cinnamon, mixed with
sugar
whipped cream
4 maraschino cherries

Steps:

Form ice cream into 4 balls. Place in baking pan andfreeze solid, 2 hours or longer.
Mix cereal, sugar and cinnamon. Divide equally between 2 pie plates or other.
shallow containers.
Beat eggs with water.
Roll each ice cream ball in cereal mixture and press.
coating into ice cream. Dip coated ball in egg wash, then roll in second container of cereal mixture. Again press coating onto ice cream.
Freeze coated ice cream balls solid, 4 to 6 hours.
Shape each tortilla into hourglass form (with narrow waist) by cutting off curved slice from 2 opposite sides. One end will serve as base for ice cream. Other end will be decorative fan.
Heat oil in wok or large deep−fryer. Place tortilla between 2 ladles or large spoons of different sizes(smaller ladle on top). Place tortilla so that base end is cupped in larger ladle to form basket, with back of.
upper fan supported by handle of larger ladle.
Deep−fry until crisp.
Drain and sprinkle with cinnamon−sugar. Set aside.
Deep−fry frozen coated ice cream balls 30 to 45 seconds.
Place each fried tortilla in large−stemmed.
glass, with fan part of tortilla standing vertically above glass. Set fried ice cream ball in base of tortilla.
Top with dollop of whipped cream and decorate with cherry.

El Torito's Deep Fried Ice Cream image

Provided by Lynnda Cloutier

Number Of Ingredients 13

EGG WASH:
6 eggs
2 tbsp. water
CEREAL COATING MIX:
3/4 cup corn flakes, lightly crushed
6 tbsp. sugar
1 1/2 tbsp. cinnamon
DEEP FRIED ICE CREAM:
1 pint chocolate chip ice cream
oil for deep frying
GARNISH:
whipped cream
maraschino cherries

Steps:

1. To make egg wash, beat eggs and add water. Set aside
2. To make cereal coating, mix corn lakes, sugar and cinnamon together and set aside.
3. To make deep fried ice cream, form ice cream into 2 oz. balls. Place on cookie sheet in freezer for 2 hours.
4. Remove ice cream from freezer and dip into egg wash, then in cereal, back into egg wash then back into cereal. Be sure ice cream is covered completely. Refreeze.
5. Remove ice cream balls from freezer and lower into a deep fryer and fry at 375 for 45 to 60 seconds, long enough to bring the inside to serving temperature. Top with rosette of whipped cream and a cherry. Makes 8 servings. El Torito Restaurant, 4221 Dolphin Striker Way, Newport Beach, Ca.