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(Mae & Cheryl, this post is for you!)
When I was in Australia, during the same meal where I got to try some of that awesome pumpkin risotto, I also discovered the mysterious and wonderful Ice Cream Slice.
I had never heard of Ice Cream Slice before, but a bit of googling seemed to indicate that it’s an OZ thing. The mystery of the ice cream slice is that… it doesn’t consist of ice cream, and you don’t need an ice cream maker to make it. It looks like ice cream, it feels like ice cream, it tastes like ice cream, it must be…
Heavy cream and condensed milk.
I kid you not. That’s all it is. Heavy cream and condensed milk, along with some filler of your choice (I used chocolate honeycomb), sandwiched between two biscuits.
Isn’t that marvellous? So easy to make, and you get to feel all cool (pardon the pun) for making your own ice cream.
If you run a search on Ice Cream Slice you’ll see that all the recipes are about the same, so here is my take on it (it’s not fundamentally different than the other recipes, just a bit more detailed).
Ice Cream Slice
Ingredients (makes about 20 hefty slices):
- 600ml heavy/thickened cream
- 1 can (395g) condensed milk
- 2-3 bars (100-150g) crunchie or other chocolate honeycomb bar
- 250-300g of any flat rectangular biscuit that you like (I used 1-1/4 packs of Liebniz butter biscuits)
Directions:
1. Line two 9x6x2 inch baking tins (or a single baking tin with a more or less equivalent volume) with foil and leave a little extra length of foil folded over the sides of the tin. Place one layer of biscuits in each tin, front-side down. (Use a sharp knife to cut the biscuits down to size if you have to.) Set aside.
2. Place chocolate bars into a ziplock bag and pulverize with a pestle or rolling pin (be careful not to tear the plastic or you have honeycomb bits flying around the kitchen).
3. Using an electric mixer, whip the cream on high speed till it goes from liquid and bubbly to fluffy and able to hold its shape (i.e. when you lift your mixer attachment, the cream shouldn’t drip down but fall as one clump).
4. Add condensed milk and stir through gently. Fold in crushed honeycomb.
5. Pour mixture over the first layer of biscuits. Jiggle the tray about a little bit to get the mixture to sit evenly on the biscuits. Cover mixture with a second layer of biscuits.
6. Cover tray with another piece of foil and put in freezer for several hours until solid (best to leave it overnight).
7. Remove from freezer and lift the whole block of ice cream slice out of its tin using the slack aluminium foil. Slice and enjoy.
See the ingredients, and steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5.
The perfect treat on a hot summer day…
This is so easy you just have to try it! Your kids will thank you for it!
this looks great! will try this with my kids one day, thanks! =)
what a clever way to make ice cream sandwich.. looks really refreshing. at first glance reminds me of our street wafer ice cream sandwich
This I will definitely make! Awesome job, Clare!
Yep, it reminded me of wafer ice-cream sold by the uncle on the cycling-cart…
spots & Ju: Yes yes you totally should! your kids will love it!
noobcook & tigerfish: yes it sure looks like the stuff sold by the orchard road uncle! but yummier =)
fantastic. Ill make this definitely!! Wonderful discovery for u and all of us.
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This looks great…and so easy. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic idea-I used to love crunchie back in the day!
veggie wedgie, Kelsey and zurin: Thanks! It’s a fun dish.
That sounds to easy. And you can kick up the flavour with anything you like. Do you have to be careful about the thickness of the biscuit you use? would it get soggy if you used a thin one ?
Kulsum: Yup you can add any crunchy cereal, nuts etc. that you like. The biscuit I used didn’t get soggy, but it did soften. I think it’s not so much about the thickness as it is about the constitution of the biscuit? I probably wouldn’t use a flaky wafer-like biscuit… But a thin butter biscuit should be fine.
I am so loving this! Will it help if we layer the biscuit with some sort of caramelized substance that harden quickly before spreading the ice cream? Just a thought .. It would be wonderful if the crispiness of the biscuit can be preserved
Hey Jun! The crispiness of the biscuits isn’t entirely lost. I think caramel might be a little too hard and sweet an addition to the ice cream slice – it’s nice to have a bit of crunch but not too much =)
This looks so delicious .. and of course will be bookmarked
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You’ve made it look so easy! Ahh, to have homemade ice cream available in a flash like that will be very dangerous in our household. But it’ll be worth it! Thanks for the great recipe.
OMG i love this recipe.
Maryam, Carolyn, joy: Thanks much =)
This looks sooooo good!!! Great for bday parties for adults and kids!
Hi! Made this today for a dinner with some friends and everyone raved about it and asked for the recipe! My kids absolutely LOVED it too and they kept trying to wheedle extra helpings out of us… Thanks for sharing such a great recipe and for putting up all the details like the brand of biscuits to get!!
have a blessed week ahead…
A Little Yuminess: Thanks =)
SW: Very well done! I’m sure it was wonderful! Did you take pictures? =D
This was the first dessert I attempted to make using my brand new mixer! I used honey graham crackers (mainly coz they were the only biscuits I had in my pantry at the time) in this “ice cream sandwich”. So yummy!
As an Aussie i often make this. We usually use malt biscuits. Anything from honeycomb bars to jaffa’s, chopped chocolate bars eg mars, cherry ripe, crumbled flake or twirl, choc chips and chopped nuts are added and perfectly plain is also an option. I intend making this for our family for Christmas.
Hi Mrs Multitasker! I saw this recipe at “KevinandAmanda” is I fell in love with it. You can throw anything in it and its absolutely delicious. Never thought of making ice cream sandwiches with them though. and the cookies that you chose are my absolute favorite. I will be making these this weekend for sure. Great site!
Hey, I was wondering what happened to mine… I tried making it. But after I added the condensed milk to the cream mixture, and after much stirring, it became like “scrambled egg with milk”. Issit supposed to be like this ? :/
Hi Joey! No it probably shouldn’t have turned out like scrambled milk :-O Either you didn’t whip the cream sufficiently before mixing in the condensed milk (you want to whip it till comes down in stiff peaks), or you over-stirred the condensed milk, which might have caused the whipped cream to deflate. Wanna give it another go and let me know how it turns out? Lots of my readers have used the recipe without any hitches so it’s probably not a recipe issue I don’t think…
Hey thanks for replying! (: I guess, i over-stirred the condensed milk.. Because once I saw a little of the “Scrambled milk”, I stirred even more ! :/ (sorry, i’m bad at this D: )
Ahh yes few yrs ago i worked in a indian resturant and this is how we use to make it we also used milkshake syrup in it for flavour, very yummy