Best Tequila Ice Cream Recipes

APPLE CRISP WITH PRUNE TEQUILA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Make topping:
• Blend flour, sugars, cinnamon, and salt in a food processor until combined well. Add butter and blend until mixture forms large clumps. Transfer to a bowl and work in pecans with your fingertips.
• Preheat oven to 375°F.
• Make filling:
• Whisk together sugar and cinnamon in a large bowl. Peel, quarter, and core apples, then slice 1/2 inch thick. Add apples to sugar mixture along with lemon juice and orange zest and toss until combined well.
• Bake crisp:
• Spread apples in a lightly buttered 3 1/2- to 4-quart shallow baking dish and crumble topping evenly over them. Bake in middle of oven until topping is golden brown, about 1 hour. Cool to warm and serve with ice cream.

TEQUILA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine the milk, cream and tequila in a saucepan and place over medium heat.
• Bring to a simmer, and cook gently about 12 to 14 minutes, then remove from the heat.
• Meanwhile, in a bowl, whisk the sugar and honey into the egg yolks until slightly pale and lightened.
• Put one third of the milk mixture into the yolks while whisking.
• Add the yolk mixture into the saucepan with the rest of the milk mixture and cook over medium heat stirring constantly until the mixture thickens sufficiently to coat the back of spoon -- do not allow the custard to boil.
• Remove from the heat, pass through a fine strainer, and place in the refrigerator to cool for 30 minutes.
• When it has cooled, place in an ice cream maker and follow manufacturer's instructions.

APRICOT TEQUILA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine the apricots, tequila, and vanilla bean in a small jar. Cover, and let macerate overnight at room temperature.
• The next day, set up an ice bath: Place a medium bowl in a large bowl of ice. Set a fine-mesh sieve over the medium bowl.
• Remove the vanilla bean from the jar and put it in a medium-size heavy saucepan. (Set the tequila-soaked apricots aside.) Add the cream to the pan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. While the cream is heating, whisk the egg yolks and sugar in a medium bowl until the mixture is pale in color and very smooth.
• Gradually add the hot cream to the yolks, whisking constantly (discard the vanilla bean). Return the mixture to the saucepan and cook over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, for about 4 minutes, until the custard registers 170° to 175°F on an instant-read thermometer and coats the back of the spoon.
• Immediately pour the custard through the sieve into the bowl set in the ice bath. Let the custard cool, whisking it occasionally. Cover and refrigerate for 4 hours, until very cold, or overnight.
• Pulse the apricots with the tequila in a food processor until they form a thick, chunky puree. Add 1/2 cup of the chilled custard and pulse to combine. Then stir the entire apricot mixture into the remaining custard. Churn the custard in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions. Transfer the ice cream to an airtight container and freeze for 12 hours, or until hard.
• There's no doubt about it, tequila is the best contribution Mexico has made to the world! We are definitely tequila drinkers in my family. My brother goes for the blanco, or silver, the strongest in agave flavor since it's bottled immediately after the distillation process. My dad goes for the reposado or rested, which is aged for more than two months and gentler on the palate. Oranges are mandatory with his tequila, as biting into a sweet orange wedge balances and further enhances the drink's flavor. I favor añejos, or aged tequilas and often pair them with sangrita, a sweet-and-sour tomato-based drink that is sipped alternately with the tequila. Oro, or golden tequila, is preferred for making mixed drinks, cooking, and baking; it is commonly blended with caramel color and sugar syrup, so it tends to be sweeter.

PRUNE TEQUILA ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Pack prunes into a 1/2-pint jar and add tequila (it should just cover them). Cover jar and let prunes macerate at least 12 hours at room temperature.
• Bring cream, half-and-half, and vanilla bean to a boil in a 2- to 3-quart heavy saucepan. Whisk together yolks and sugar in a bowl, then add hot cream mixture in a stream, whisking. Pour custard into saucepan and cook over moderately low heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, until it registers 170 to 175°F on an instant-read thermometer. Immediately pour custard through a very fine sieve into a bowl, then cool to room temperature, stirring occasionally. Chill custard, covered, until very cold, about 4 hours.
• Pulse prunes with macerating liquid in a food processor until prunes form a thick, slightly chunky purée. Add about 1 cup cold custard and pulse just until combined well, then whisk into remaining custard.
• Freeze custard in ice cream maker. Transfer ice cream to an airtight container and put in freezer to harden at least 12 hours. (The tequila gives this ice cream a slightly softer texture than regular ice cream.)