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Panda Loving China Captain
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 Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:22 pm
In Birth By Sleep, Volcano Curry Ice-Cream puts you into the fire command style, so naturally the ice-cream itself would be a spicy flavor. Now, I have had two types of spicy ice-cream before, spiced chocolate, and mango curry ice-cream. Unfortunately, the ingredients for the ice-cream in the game are five pixy peppers, and three toon curries. Peppers are a key ingredient in spicy chocolate ice-cream, and curry powder is a key ingredient in … well any curry based ice-cream but the two don’t really mix. As such, I had three choices. I could make a spiced-chocolate ice-cream and add some curry, a curry fruit ice-cream and add some peppers, or omit both the chocolate and the fruit and just see how spicy curry chili pepper ice-cream would turn out.
Well, I made a tiny batch of pre-freeze ice-cream with all three recipes in mind, and had mixed results. The plain old spicy ice-cream was interesting but wasn’t really a flavor I wanted to have again. The fruit with chili ice-cream was a strange combination that actually kind of weirded me out, so I scrapped that one. The spicy chocolate curry ice-cream recipe, however, was pretty good, Chocolate and curry actually go together (you would know this if you watched Kuroshitsuji season 1) and I was actually impressed at how well both flavors mix together. So I decided that Volcano Curry ice-cream was a flavor of chocolate, and here is the recipe I used.
What you will need:
Large bowl
Saucepan
Wooden spoon
Wire whisk or electric mixer
Ice-cream maker or ice pop molds
3 cups half-and-half
1 jalapeño chile, stemmed, seeded, and julienned
10 ounces bitter sweet chocolate, finely chopped
2 teaspoons cinnamon
2 teaspoons yellow curry powder
3 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup crumbled dark chocolate bits or dark chocolate chips
Instructions:
1. Put the half-and-half, Jalapeno, cinnamon, and curry powder in a saucepan and heat over medium-high heat, stirring constnatly until it just about boils. Do not let the mixture over-boil as it will burn the half-and-half. Use a wooden spoon, not a metal one, as metal spoons will scratch your pot and make it more likely that the half-and-half will burn.
2. Immediately remove from heat and add the bitter sweet chocolate. Let it sit for about 2 minutes and stir until the chocolate is melted and incorporated into the mixture.
3. Let it cool. Cover the pot and refrigerate overnight.
4. Strain the mixture, discarding the jalapeno.
5. In a large bowl, combine the eggs and sugar. Beat until fluffy and light in color. An electric mixer is good for this.
6. Combine the egg mixture with the chocolate mixture. Stir well.
7. Add the heavy cream. Stir well again.
8. Put the entire mixture into an ice-cream maker, adding the dark chocolate chips or bits. Make some ice-cream!
9. (Alternative) Put the mixture into ice-pop molds and freeze overnight. If you do this, do not add the chocolate chips or bits.
Verdict:
Are you a chocolate fan? I hope so because this is about as chocolate as chocolate gets. For those of you who have never had spiced chocolate ice-cream before, here is a short run down. Adding spice to chocolate actually makes that chocolate taste darker. As a result, the combination of cinnamon and spicy pepper makes this recipe taste exceedingly dark. The curry powder balances out this darkness, believe it or not, with a sight smooth taste. Overall, I liked it. I’m actually not a big chocolate lover, but the flavor was more than serviceable.
If I were to think of condiments to add to this, I would probably choose something like white chocolate sauce, or bits, or marshmallow fluff. Nuts in syrup would help too. The ice-cream tastes so much of chocolate and spice, a lighter flavor helps balance the whole package.
A lot of people are going to say I cheated on this one … and since it’s my first one I can’t say I was off to a good start. I suppose the most “authentic” flavor would omit the chocolate all together, but it’s also very clear in the game that there are ingredients used in the ice-cream that aren’t gathered by you specifically. Now, I’ve had curry flavored ice-cream before, and I suppose I could attempt to make just an exceedingly spicy curry flavor, but I doubt my ability to do it with any sort of success. However, if enough fans want me to try this, I’ll go out and give it a shot.
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:25 pm
Hm, this sounds good. I'll have to try it some time! ^ u ^
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Panda Loving China Captain
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:33 pm
I haven't really made it, I just copied and pasted the recipe. >w<
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Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:40 pm
Well I'm tempted to make it~ I'll post results when and if I do =)
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