BonBons for Bonnie

One of my closest friends had her first child a year ago. She’s the first of our friends group to have a baby. I can’t even imagine how hard that would be. When she was about 4/5 months she told me the name she chose, Bonnie. I rubbed her belly and told BonBon how excited I am to meet her. Well now that its a year later, I decided I wanted to make the beautiful Bonnie some BonBons for her first birthday.

Well, it seemed easy. Right. Easy. I made the vanilla ice cream in an ice cream maker. Okay yes, that was pretty easy. But then I went to make the BonBons. I melted the chocolate, and every time I went to dip the Ice cream scoops, I’d make it to two and have to re-temper the chocolate. But the cream in the chocolate made it near impossible so I had to start over. 6 Bonbons in and I decided that was enough. Good thing we broke them out at the end of the party, with just 6 people left in the room!

I wish they came out better, but I’ll definitely try again… And it seemed Bonnie preferred pizza anyway!

Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients

• 1 eggs
• 3 Egg Yolks
• 1 cup sugar
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 1/2 cups whipping cream
• 2 cups half-and-half cream
• 2 1/4 teaspoons vanilla extract

Instructions

1. Whisks eggs and place in a heavy saucepan.
2. Add in sugar, salt, whipping cream and half-and-half.
3.  Cook over medium-low heat, stirring constantly, until the mixture is thick enough to coat a metal spoon and reaches as close to 180 degrees F as possible.
4. Remove from the heat; cool quickly by setting pan in ice and stirring the mixture.
5. Cover and refrigerate overnight or freeze immediately.
6. When ready to make ice cream, pour custard and vanilla into the cylinder of an ice cream freezer.
7. Freeze according to the manufacturer’s directions.

BonBons

Ingredients

• 6 ounces of chocolate
• Ice Cream

Instructions

1. Place parchment paper on a cookie sheet
2. Scoop ice cream in to small round balls (I did them too big…)
3. Put them into the freezer so they set
4. Melt the chocolate in a double boiler
5. Remove from heat
6. Take sheet of ice cream scoops out of the fridge
7. Quickly use two forks to dip and full coat in chocolate
8. Return to fridge before it starts to melt

I had to re-temper the chocolate every two scoops or so but perhaps a heating pad or something would keep it warm.