Blackberry Vanilla Custard Popsicle

I love a good Ice cream any day. Keyword here is ‘Good’. Most home-made ice creams are so creamy that they almost taste like frozen cream. And even though I like my ice creams super-rich, I don’t like them to be too creamy in a weird sort of way. Am I making any sense? May be I had a brain freeze from too much ice cream. Anyways, so I was saying that I am picky about my ice creams. And home-made ice cream always run into the danger of either over doing it or under doing it. Either the ice cream is too creamy to taste like an authentic one or not rich enough to avoid crystallization. And it’s a challenge to get it just right.

When I decided to use custard as the base for this Blackberry Vanilla Custard Popsicle, I thought I had an Eureka moment. A quick google search burst my bubble. 🙁 Now that innovation was out-of-the-way, its taste was my only savior. But even then I wasn’t expecting anything Earth-shattering or such. Because when I was making this ice cream, I was just thinking ” Hmm….Blackberries and home-made custard infused with vanilla bean…..should taste good…rite? Should I waste one whole vanilla bean on it or use extract instead?” LOL. I am funny that ways. But I sure am glad that I decided to use the bean anyways. Because that was, in my opinion, the best use of my humble but expensive vanilla bean.

Blackberry Vanilla Custard Popsicle

Blackberries and Vanilla are two of my favorite things in the world. And while I love them immensely, I am also aware that one of them is available for an extremely short duration of the year and the other one is not so easily available at all and yet it is totally worth all the effort and hassle to gather the ingredients. It was creamy, finger-licking good, dreamy and  umm……..just RIGHT. Slurp….Slurp.

Blackberry Vanilla Custard Popsicle

Prep Time: 10 minutes

Cook Time: 30 minutes

Yield: 10 popsicles

Ingredients

  • 440 gms fresh Blackberries
  • 2 1/2 tbsp. Sugar
  • Juice of 1 Orange
  • Zest of 1 Orange
  • 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
  • 1 2/3 cup Whole Milk
  • 1 Vanilla Bean or 1 tsp Vanilla Bean paste or 1 tbsp. Vanilla extract (In that order)
  • 100 gms Sugar
  • 1 1/2 tbsp. Cornstarch
  • 2 large Egg yolks

Instructions

  1. In a pan, add blackberries, sugar, orange juice and zest and boil the mixture until it is a thick pulp. Using a fork, mash half of the blackberries while you are boiling the mixture. If you wish to remove the blackberry seeds, sieve the mixture. Keep aside.
  2. In another pan, heat milk, cream and sugar. Keep 3 tbsp. cold milk aside.
  3. Split open the vanilla bean and scrape all the beans from the pod. Add all the beans into the custard mixture with the pod.
  4. Heat the mixture until you see few bubbles around the edges. Do not boil over the milk.
  5. In a bowl, whisk the yolks to mix them well. Now very slowly, pour about 1/4 cup custard mixture onto eggs while continuously whisking the eggs.
  6. Once you have tempered the eggs, add the remaining custard mixture slowly in a slow stream while whisking the eggs continuously.
  7. Once all the milk is added, sieve it to make sure no cooked egg pieces are there in the mixture. Discard the vanilla bean pod.
  8. Pour the mixture back into the pan and heat it. In the cold milk kept aside, add cornstarch and mix well.
  9. Add cornstarch to the custard and let the mixture thicken. Stir a wooden spoon in the custard and when you run a finger along the back of the spoon, the custard stays separate then the custard is ready.
  10. Take it off the heat and keep whisking for a few minutes to avoid forming a layer.
  11. In the ice cream mold, add custard until 1/4 full, then add a scoop of blackberry pulp. Repeat the process one more time or until full.
  12. Stick in the popsicle stick (depends on the mold), cover it and freeze it. Enjoy them chilled.

Notes

You can use any berry in case blackberries aren't easily available.

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4 Comments

  1. Gaurav Sedwal

    Hi Nidhi,
    You simlly make us love the food with your description of it. And I am sure you too love it from the deepest core of your heart.
    Though I am a bit lazy to amble to the kitchen at times but I can feel its goodness just by reading your posts.
    Love it.

  2. Ashish Lirani

    Love the picture and the presentation. Khane ka man kar gaya! Very impressive stuff nidhi! Ek number!

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