Ice-cream Vacherin - Cooking-ez.com

Preparation	Resting	Start to finish
45 min.	8 hours	8 hours 45 min.

Step by step recipe

Stage 1 - 2 min.

Preheat the oven to 210°F (100°C).

You will need a cake tin, dessert ring or plate about 23 cm (9 inches) in diameter to draw round. Draw 2 circles on a sheet of cooking parchment.

Stage 2 - 5 min.

Make a meringue with 90 g egg white and 150 g caster sugar.

Stage 3 - 2 min.

Turn the paper with the circles on over and fix down onto a baking sheet with a small dab of meringue at each corner.

Stage 4 - 5 min.

Use a forcing bag to pipe 2 neat discs of meringue using the circles on the paper to guide you.

The professionals start from the centre and work outwards in one elegant gesture, but for amateurs like us, it is easier to start from the outside and finish in the centre, like in the photo.

Stage 5 - 3 min.

If there is any meringue left over, you can fill up the spaces on the paper with small meringue shapes to serve to your guests with coffee. Cook in the oven for 4 to 6 hours. For more details, see the recipe for meringues.

Stage 6 - 2 hours

Lay a sheet of cooking parchment of a baking sheet, stand the dessert ring on it and place a circle of meringue in the bottom. Put this in the freezer for at least one hour.

If you do not have a dessert ring, you can use a strip of card wrapped in aluminium foil and bent round to the correct size.

Stage 7 - 5 min.

Remove from the freezer and spread a layer of blackcurrant sorbet on the meringue base to about halfway up the side of the ring.

Stage 8 - 5 min.

Follow this immediately with a second layer of vanilla ice cream.

Stage 9 - 4 hours

Finish with the second circle of meringue on top and press this down to sit firmly on the filling. It doesn't really matter if it cracks or breaks slightly.

Put the vacherin back in the freezer for at least 4 hours.

Stage 10 - 5 min.

Take the vacherin out of the freezer and remove the ring. This is easier if you slip a knife blade around the edge.

Stage 11 - 8 min.

Use a forcing bag to pipe small whorls of Chantilly...

Stage 12

...all over the top of the vacherin.

Stage 13 - 5 min.

Finish around the edge with a flat nozzle if you have one...

Stage 14

...and cover the outside. You can pipe a "cord" around the bottom of the vacherin if you wish.

If you don't have a flat nozzle, you can use a palette-knife to spread the cream around the outside.

Stage 15 - 2 hours

Put the vacherin back in the freezer for at least 2 hours bafore serving.

And to drink?

Nutritional information

Whole recipe
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
1,821 Kcal or 7,624 Kj	54 gr	354 gr	169 gr
91 %	21 %	33 %	26 %

Per 100 g
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
85 Kcal or 356 Kj	3 gr	17 gr	8 gr
4 %	1 %	2 %	1 %

Per person
Energetic value	Proteins	Carbohydrates	Fats
304 Kcal or 1,273 Kj	9 gr	59 gr	28 gr
15 %	3 %	6 %	4 %

% are calculated relative to a Recommended Dietary Intake or RDI of 2000 k-calories or 8400 k-joules by day for a woman (change to a man).

This recipe uses (among others)

	Vanilla ice cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Poire Belle Hélène, Baked Alaska, Peach Melba, Little caramelized peach tarts, Profiteroles, ... All
	Blackcurrant sorbet: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Baked Alaska, Peach and blackcurrant sundae, Peach and blackcurrant coupe, ... All
	Chantilly cream: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Chantilly rice pudding, Strawberry Charlotte, Pavlova, Pear charlotte, Warm apple feuillantines, ... All
	Caster sugar: You can get more informations, or check-out other recipes which use it, for example: Plain cake, Apple custard tart, Brioche dough, Pistachio ice cream, Blackcurrant, vanilla and lime verrine , ... All

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