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The weather sure is heating up around here! It’s great for my garden and perfect for outdoor playtime with the kids, but sometimes it’s just downright hot. That hot and humid weather is going to be sticking around for a while, so I thought it would be best to have some yummy recipes on hand to indulge in and cool off with. I had a chance to try some of Four Roses Bourbon recently and decided to use it in a tasty recipe. Morgan Murphy’s Candied Bacon & Bourbon Frozen Custard is a treat for the grown-up’s this summer that you don’t want to miss!
May is National BBQ month and this boozy dessert is the perfect addition to your summer backyard barbecue. To make this frozen custard recipe absolutely delicious you need to use good bourbon! Four Roses Bourbon has been around since 1888 and it’s award winning smooth and mellow taste sets it apart from other brands.
Bourbon & Bacon: The Ultimate Guide to the South’s Favorite Foods
If you’ve never made frozen custard before, let me tell you that’s it’s fairly easy and totally worth every calorie! This recipe combines candied bacon with rich heavy cream, milk, egg yolks, sugar, Four Roses Bourbon, vanilla and a few pinches of nutmeg for a creamy dessert that you will not be able to get enough of!
That sweet and salty combination of the sweetened cream with the savory bacon is fantastic! Then with the addition of the bourbon- it’s simply wonderful!
After cooking everything according to the directions, you chill the custard overnight. If you are making this for a get together, make sure you start the day before.
The next day (add the nutmeg you forgot 😉 ), transfer your chilled custard into your electric ice cream maker to churn. You can now get out your lovely, delicious bacon and add that towards the end of churning.
You can serve this immediately or freeze it for a bit to let it harden slightly. My Electric Ice Cream Maker
If you want to impress your BBQ guests this summer, grab a bottle of Four Roses Bourbon and make this amazing dessert! I think you’ll love it! Enjoy!
Ingredients
- 10 thick bacon slices
- 1/3 cup firmly packed light brown sugar
- 1 tsp. freshly ground black pepper
- 2 cups milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 2 Tbsp. bacon drippings
- 1 Tbsp. vanilla extract
- ¼ tsp. ground nutmeg
- 1 cup granulated sugar, divided
- 10 large egg yolks
- ¼ cup bourbon
- ½ cup maple syrup
Instructions
- 1. Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place bacon slices on a rack in a half sheet pan lined with heavy-duty aluminum foil. Sprinkle brown sugar and pepper evenly over bacon. Bake at 375 degrees for 30 minutes or until crisp. Remove from oven, and let cool slightly on rack in pan. Finely chop bacon. (I then store mine in the refrigerator)
- 2. Combine milk, next 4 ingredients, and ½ cup granulated sugar in a medium-size heavy non-aluminum saucepan over medium heat, stirring constantly, just until bubbles appear (do not boil); remove from heat.
- 3. Whisk together egg yolks and remaining ½ cup granulated sugar. Gradually stir about one-fourth of hot milk mixture into yolks; add yolk mixture to remaining hot milk mixture, stirring constantly. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture coats back of wooden spoon and thermometer registers 170 degrees. (Do not boil.) Pour mixture through a fine wire-mesh strainer into a medium bowl. Whisk in bourbon and maple syrup. Place heavy-duty plastic wrap directly on custard (to prevent a film from forming); chill overnight.
- 4. Pour mixture into freezer container of a 2-qt. electric ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions, adding chopped bacon toward end of processing time. Transfer to a 13-x 9- inch pan. Cover and freeze 3 hours or until firm.
- Makes: 7 Servings
- Hands-On: 30 min.
- Total: 4 Hr., Not including chilling and freezing
*Recipe from Southern Living Bourbon & Bacon: The Ultimate Guide to the South’s Favorite Foods
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