Magnum liquorice

  • Petit four
  • medium
  • 15
  • 30 minutes
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Gary Jones' Magnum liquorice ice cream recipe provides a real post-dinner treat packed with flavour. These ice cream bars are perfect for the heat of summer, and brilliant for birthdays and other celebrations. Diamant 50 is a base for ice cream, giving it a creamy texture. You should be able to get this from a speciality ingredient store, such as MSK.

Recipe by Raymond Blanc, chef patron and Gary Jones, executive head chef.

First published in 2015
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Ingredients

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Ice cream

  • 650ml of full-fat milk
  • 2 liquorice sticks
  • 85g of caster sugar
  • 65ml of double cream
  • 9g of milk powder
  • 12g of diamante 50
  • 130g of pasteurised egg yolk

Equipment

  • Piping bag 1-2cm nozzle
  • Ice cream maker
  • Sugar thermometer
  • Blender
  • 35 Japanese bamboo cocktail sticks

Method

1
To make the ice cream bring the milk to a simmer. Chop the liquorice and dissolve it in the warm milk. Blitz in a blender
  • 650ml of full-fat milk
  • 2 liquorice sticks
2
Put 85g of caster sugar in a pan and melt over a low heat. Keep heating until it turns a dark brown caramel. Add the hot cream to stop it cooking any further. Add to the liquorice milk
  • 85g of caster sugar
  • 65ml of double cream
3
Heat to 30°C, add the milk powder and diamant 50 and bring to the boil for 2 minutes. Pour over the yolks, stirring all the time and cook to 86°C
4
Cool the mixture in an ice bain-marie. When cold, blitz for 1 minute in a blender and leave to maturate overnight
5
Blitz again before churning for 1 minute. Spoon into a piping bag. Pipe the ice cream onto a frozen tray covered with silicone paper using a 2cm diameter nozzle. Freeze until hard
6
For the chocolate coating, heat the oven to 160°C/gas mark 2. Roast the hazelnuts until golden, which should take about 8 minutes. Blitz in a blender
7
Sieve through a coarse sieve to get rid of all the excess powder as this will thicken the chocolate. Weigh to make sure you have 50g
8
Leave to cool. Melt the chocolate and cocoa butter over a bain-marie and stir to combine. Mix in the hazelnuts and keep warm
9
Cut the frozen lengths of ice cream into 3cm long pieces, and push a bamboo stick into each. Keep frozen so they don’t melt
10
Dip each one in the hazelnut and milk chocolate mixture and allow the chocolate to set. Store in a container in the freezer until needed
First published in 2015
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Gary Jones led the kitchen at Raymond Blanc's Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons from 1999 to 2022.

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