Coffee, Meringue and Nutella Ice Cream Loaf

Ingredients:

  • 2 L Vanilla Ice Cream
  • Meringues (home made or store bought)
  • Instant coffee powder
  • Nutella
  • Fresh Cream
  • Hazelnuts
  • Gooseberres

Method:

  1. Allow the ice cream it to soften slightly outside the freezer
  2. Crush about 6 meringues into the soft ice cream
  3. Make a cup of instant coffee by combining 1 – 2 tbsp with a cup of boiling water and mixing this until it is combined
  4. Add a touch of cream to the coffee, to make it creamier
  5. Line a bread loaf baking tin with some cling film
  6. Pour the soft ice cream and meringue mixture into the loaf tin
  7. Spoon the instant coffee and nutella over the ice cream and swirl it through the mixture. Don’t over mix so that the ingredients are distributed through the loaf but not mixed in
  8. Put this loaf into the freezer to set
  9. While the ice cream is freezing, put the hazelnuts into a dry frying pan
  10. Heat the pan on a stove, and roast the Hazelnuts slowly until the skin starts to peel off, shaking the pan continuously
  11. Once the ice cream is frozen, remove it from the loaf tin and remove the glad wrap around the loaf
  12. Sprinkle the roasted hazelnuts and some gooseberries over the loaf and serve immediately, before it melts