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Bourbon Caramel Pecan Swirl
Brown sugar custard built around bourbon’s vanilla and oak, finished with a ribbon of salted caramel and candied pecans folded in at the end.
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Servings: 12 2/3 cup servings
Calories: 379kcal
Weight measurements (grams) adjust with servings. Volume measurements shown in parentheses are accurate at the default serving size — use grams when scaling recipes up or down.
Ingredients
- 632.9 g heavy cream ~2⅔ cups
- 329.9 g Fairlife Whole Milk ~1⅜ cups (1 cup + 6 tbsp)
- 222.2 g dark brown sugar packed ~1 cup + 2 tbsp
- 121.2 g egg yolks 7 large yolks
- 53.9 g bourbon ~3¾ tbsp (just under ¼ cup)
- 6.1 g Vanilla bean paste ~1 to 1¼ tsp
- 2.0 g salt ~⅓ tsp fine / ~¾ tsp Diamond kosher
- 208.7 g caramel sauce ~⅔ cup
- 74.1 g chopped toasted pecans ~¾ cup
Instructions
- Heat cream, milk, and salt until steaming.
- Whisk egg yolks and brown sugar until pale. Temper in two additions.
- Cook to 170–175°F. Remove from heat. Stir in bourbon and vanilla.
- Strain and chill overnight (recommended) or at for 4 least hours.
- While the base is cooling, toast pecans in a dry skillet over medium heat 4–5 minutes until fragrant. Cool, chop roughly, set aside.
- Warm caramel until pourable but not hot. Churn 20–25 minutes.
- Pour the chilled base into the bowl and churn 40–60 minutes.
- Warm caramel until pourable but not hot.
- Layer half ice cream, half caramel, half pecans. Repeat. Swirl gently 3–4 strokes.
- Freeze at least 4 hours until firm. The icre cream should be scoopable (thank you bourbon!)
To serve, scoop the ice cream and garnish it with a drizzle of caramel sauce and some toasted, chopped, pecans.
Nutrition
Serving: 0.67cup | Calories: 379kcal | Carbohydrates: 31g | Protein: 4g | Fat: 26g | Saturated Fat: 14g | Polyunsaturated Fat: 3g | Monounsaturated Fat: 9g | Cholesterol: 169mg | Sodium: 149mg | Potassium: 123mg | Fiber: 1g | Sugar: 30g | Vitamin A: 940IU | Vitamin C: 0.5mg | Calcium: 76mg | Iron: 1mg
One of my favorites and the original inspiration for Spirited Licks!