Sour Cream Ice Cream with Deeply Toasted Nuts and Hot Honey

This dessert is so easy to make but tastes incredibly complex and sophisticated: an Orderves core mission. The ice cream is rich and silky, but has a tart brightness to it. It almost tastes like gelato’s answer to “original tart” flavored fro-yo, but only has four ingredients - and requires no machine!

If the nuts and hot honey aren’t for you, try serving it atop some grilled fruit! (Give them a shot though)

sour cream ice cream

Sour Cream Ice Cream with Deeply Toasted Nuts and Hot Honey

For the ice cream:

1½  cups sour cream

½ cup full fat Greek yogurt 

1½ cups sweetened condensed milk (about one can)

1 tsp vanilla extract 

Whisk all ingredients together until silky smooth and lumps are gone. Pour into a container and freeze for 6 hours, stirring every 1.5 hours or so.

For the nuts:

½ cup raw walnuts

½ cup raw pecans

1/3 cup salted and roasted peanuts

¼ cup salted and cashews 

¼ cup sliced raw almonds

¼ cup white sesame seeds

This is a bit of a pain but it’s worth it: each of the nuts toast at slightly different temperatures for slightly different times. Over med-low heat in a dry pan toast the walnuts first, stirring frequently. Once toasted, transfer to a cutting board and roughly chop the nuts and put in a bowl. Repeat for the remaining nuts, wiping out the pan after each round. Keep the sesame seeds separate. As a basic rule, toast the nuts until you think they are about done, and then cook them for a few minutes longer. You want them to hover in that scary space right before burned. The nuts/ seeds have been listed in (rough) cook times from longest to shortest. You can play around with different types, but the sesame seeds are really cool in it. I tried pistachios in it and they were no bueno. 

For the honey:

½ cup good quality honey

1 tsp red pepper flakes 

Mix honey and pepper flakes together. 

Everything can be done ahead of time. When you’re ready to serve:

1. Microwave the hot honey for a few seconds so it’s very liquidy. 

2. Scoop the ice cream into each bowl.

3. Top with masses of nuts. Way more than you have ever used on a sundae.

4. Drizzle with super liquidy honey (it will solidify once it hits the ice cream)

5. Top the whole thing with your sesame seeds and serve.