March 12, 2011: Choc-Ice Magic

I bet a few of you lot straight off recognise the chocolatey shard shapes pictured above, yes?  You powerfulness fifty-fifty live on thinking, "It's Cottee's Ice Magic to live on quite precise, as well as inwards merely a few seconds it turns into crackly choc ice!"  (Or, if you lot grew upwards inwards the US, mayhap you lot know it every bit Magic Shell.)  This was my favourite process when visiting my grandparents every bit a kid as well as inwards the by duet of years I've bought a duet of bottles as well as re-experienced the magic inwards full.  (That's around industrial-strength nostalgia correct there!)

I assumed they were pulling out the industrial-strength chemicals to exercise the liquid-to-solid transformation, but it turns out you lot tin plough over the axe teach inwards at home.  With ii ingredients.  They're non fifty-fifty really scary ingredients.  What's more, it's both vegan as well as gluten-free if you lot select those ingredients well.  K as well as I got talking almost it on twitter as well as she already tried it out inwards January.  What I tin plough over the axe say you lot now, every bit the temperature skips as well as dips to a greater extent than often, is that it behaves (as good every bit tastes) really much similar the existent deal:

• you tin plough over the axe shop it at room temperature merely fine, merely giving it a piffling milkshake or whisk earlier serving,
• it's perfectly crunchy yet silky almost one-half a infinitesimal later you lot pour it on icecream,
• at cooler room temperatures it tends to thicken, but sitting it inwards a hot H2O lavatory for a duet of minutes earlier the shaking/ whisking is all it takes for total revival.

This could cause got me eating icecream all wintertime long.  I suppose it could live on dressed upwards alongside a piffling instant coffee, peppermint essence or fifty-fifty rosewater, but correct at nowadays I'm nevertheless hooked on the original.

(For the record, I origin tried this out every bit dessert for our 3rd Simpsons Night later a dinner of Indya Bistro takeaway [thanks Mike].  That tag-line nosotros used to run almost existence reformed Simpsons addicts is likely best forgotten.)

Choc-ice Magic
(based on a recipe from The Accidental Vegetarian,
constitute via In The Mood For Noodles)

1/3 loving cup kokosnoot oil
2/3 loving cup chocolate (dark chips are best)

In a modest saucepan over gentle heat, melt the kokosnoot oil.  Add the chocolate as well as stir regularly, until the chocolate is melted as well as you lot cause got a polish sauce.

Spoon the sauce over icecream as well as shop leftovers inwards a jounce at room temperature.