WATERMELON ICE CREAM POTS

WATERMELON ICE CREAM POTS

 

These watermelon ice-cream pots are perfect for summer! In this recipe I have made my own ice cream but you can also just by strawberry flavoured ice cream instead if you do not want to make the ice cream! 

What you will need:

• 400g strawberries
• 200ml double cream
• 75g sugar
• 1 tsp vanilla essence
• 1 1/2 bars white chocolate
• dark chocolate chips
• balloons

Method:

• Firstly, wash your strawberries and then cut the stalks off. Then cut them in half.
• Place these on a baking tray and cover with brown sugar.
• Place these in the oven at 170'c for 15-20 minutes.

 

• When these are done they will be all soft and caramelised and it smells delicious!
• Place these roasted strawberries into a blender and blend it all up! Once this is done leave aside for later.

 

• Now melt your white chocolate in the microwave.
• You will need to temper your chocolate as this will help the bowls stay together. Click here and scroll down for instructions on how to temper chocolate and why you should temper chocolate.
• Once this is all melted, colour your white chocolate a dark green. I have really bad food colourings so mine didn't go as dark as I wanted it to go but it was still green!

 

• Now for the fun part! Wash your balloons in cold water and then blow up as many or as little balloons as you would like to use, however tie them off when they reach the size of a tennis ball.
• Then dip the bottom of the balloons into the green chocolate and then place these onto a baking tray to set.

 

• I accidently made my balloons too big and so there wasn't enough ice cream to fill them up so I would advise you to make them smaller than I did!

 

 

• Now back to the ice cream! Whip up the double cream and then add the sugar and vanilla essence. Then pour in the strawberry purée over a sieve to get rid of all the seeds. Fold it all together.
• If you have an ice cream mixer you can add the mixture to that now for about 40 minutes to an hour. This will add air to the ice cream whilst it freezes to make the ice cream nice and fluffy in texture.
• Then you can go ahead and test to see if your chocolate pots have set. They should be firm and easily pull away from the baking paper. If so then pop the balloons.
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• Then pour the ice cream into each bowl and add chocolate chips to make the seeds of a watermelon. ( If you don't have an ice cream maker then just go straight to this step)
• Freeze for 2-6 hours and then enjoy!!!!!!!