Sea Salt Brownie & Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches & Ice Cream Maker Giveaway! {Naptime Everyday}
What’s Happening Today: Hot, hot, hot summer day. In the mood for something chilly after a long afternoon at the beach.
Naptime Goals: Make Chai Ice Cream and Sea Salt Brownies
Tonight’s Menu: Char’s Chinese Chicken Salad, White Wine, Sea Salt Brownie – Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches
While I firmly respect my daughter’s love of mint chip ice cream sandwiched between chocolate cookies, sometimes I am in the mood for more adult flavors. It’s not that my daughter doesn’t like sea salt brownies with chai ice cream, but it is definitely not the dessert she asks for everyday. Iced Chai lattes are my cold beverage of choice in the summer so turning it into ice cream seemed to be a natural fit when I was dreaming up new ice cream flavors during a hot day at the beach last week.
To infuse the ice cream with chai flavors I steeped the milk base with the spices from my favorite chai tea spice bag. I use the Double Spice Chai tea bags from Target. If you have a preferred brand of chai tea feel free to use that, it will work just as well. During naptime I made the base and chilled it in the ice bath for an hour. Then, just before my daughter woke up, I churned it in the ice cream maker before scooping it into my container to harden in the freezer. While the ice cream was chilling I quickly mixed together some brownies and popped them in the oven.
After dinner we sandwiched the brownies and ice cream in our favorite ice cream sandwich molds to make a delicious frozen treat. The sea salt brownies paired perfectly with the sweet spiced ice cream. Even my daughter tried a bite, before asking for her preferred mint chip of course.
In order to get everyone in the ice cream making spirit this summer I am giving away a Cuisinart Ice-21 this week! It is a perfect, basic ice cream maker that I swear by. To enter to win your very own ice cream maker:
1. Leave a comment sharing your ice cream flavor.
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4. Contest runs from July 13th at 7:00am through July 20th at 11:59am ET.
Recipe
Sea Salt Brownie & Chai Ice Cream Sandwiches
Ingredients
| 2 | cups whole milk |
| 1 | tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon cornstarch |
| 3 | tablespoons cream cheese, softened |
| 1 | pinch fine sea salt |
| 1 ¼ | cups heavy cream |
| 2/3 | cup granulated sugar |
| 2 | tablespoons light corn syrup |
| 3 | chai tea bags |
| 1 | batch brownies with an extra ½ teaspoon of sea salt in the batter |
Instructions
1. Mix 2 tablespoons of the milk with the cornstarch and set aside. Whisk the cream cheese and salt in a medium bowl until smooth. Fill a large bowl with ice and water.
2. Pour the remaining milk, cream, sugar, and corn syrup into a large saucepan and bring it to roiling boiling. Boil it for 4 minutes. Remove it from the heat and whisk in the cornstarch and drop in the tea bags. Return the mixture to a boil for one more minute, until it has thickened slightly.
3. Pour the milk mixture into the cream cheese and whisk until smooth. Pour the mixture, with the tea bags into a large ziploc bag and immerse it in the bowl of ice and water. All it to chill for 30 minutes while the tea infuses the milk.
4. Strain out the tea bags and pour the milk mixture into an ice cream maker. Churn according to manufacturers directions!
Naptime Notes
Naptime Recipe Serving ideas
This ice cream is great served on its own. If you don’t want to make ice cream sandwiches, make sundaes instead!
Naptime Stopwatch
20 minutes for the ice cream base, 20 minutes to churn
Naptime Reviews
My daughter wasn’t sold on the chai ice cream when there was mint chip to be had, but we loved it!
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