Delia Smith visits my Kitchen!
Hot Chocolate Fudge Sundae
AND
Swan Ice Cream Maker
Giveaway
Oh how I wish Delia, aka Saint Delia, would visit my kitchen, but I am afraid my title has been somewhat misleading and her only presence in my kitchen was via one of her cooking bibles, books! This is my slightly adapted recipe for Hot Chocolate Fudge Sundae as taken from her book, Summer Collection, which still remains one of my very favourite cookbooks. Delia has the ability to bring the unusual and unique to the table but with simple, easy to follow instructions which makes all of her recipes appear achievable…..and it’s this skill that has made her one the most popular celebrity chefs (or cooks) of the 20th and 21st centuries. Such is power and popularity, that in the wake of her Summer Collection book release, supermarkets and deli’s all over the land sold out of sun-dried tomatoes and “muffin” tins! I have ALL of her cookbooks and they are the most thumbed books in my vast cookbook collection.
Today’s recipe is simplicity itself, especially as I made it in a rather FAB electric Swan Ice Cream maker that was sent to me by Ideal World TV. The beauty about the basic ice cream is that if you don’t have an ice cream maker, then you can make this by hand as it is a “no churn” style, and uses a very simple cream and condensed milk base, which means no egg custard to worry about. If you don’t have an ice cream maker, then stick around, as I have ONE to offer as a giveaway at the bottom of this post……as very kindly donated by the folks over at Ideal World TV. The sauce for this sundae is also super easy to make and although Delia suggests using dark chocolate, I quite fancied a milk chocolate fudge sauce for my ice cream delight, so that’s exactly what I used, but the choice is yours of course.
The ice cream maker is very simple to use – it’s a self-churning ice cream maker with an enormous 2 litre capacity that takes just half an hour to set. I LOVED using it and as my old ice cream maker has given up the ghost, I was delighted to have a new one sent to me. It has: Open lid to allow ingredients to be added whilst in motion, Detachable freezer bowl, mixing paddle and lid for easy cleaning, Glowing on/off dial and it also includes a handy recipe book. It’s ideal for making all kinds of Ice Cream, including gelato, frozen yogurt and sorbets……so, my recipe for Sorbet Cassis (Blackcurrant Sorbet) and “No Churn” Crème Fraiche Sorbet with Candied Almonds would be an absolute doddle to make!
But, back to today’s recipe, which was my random recipe for Dom’s monthly challenge, Random Recipes; this month he teamed up with Kavey from Kavey Eats for a combined Bloggers Scream for Ice Cream AND Random Recipes challenge. My randomly selected book was Delia Smith’s Summer Collection and having ascertained where the chilled section was, my recipe was revealed as a Hot Chocolate Fudge Sundae, which I was happy to make! DO give the recipe I have shared below a go, it’s decadently sweet and fudgy with a nutty crunch and it’s very easy to make. Also, WHY NOT enter the giveaway to win a fabulous Swan Ice Cream Maker, you never know your luck! See you later and have a GREAT weekend, Karen
Disclaimer: I was sent a Swan Ice Cream Maker to review; all views and opinions are my own and I was not asked to write a favourable report.
Hot Chocolate Fudge Ice Cream Sundae
Print recipe
| Serves | 6 |
| Prep time | 30 minutes |
| Cook time | 10 minutes |
| Total time | 40 minutes |
| Allergy | Milk |
| Dietary | Vegetarian |
| Meal type | Dessert |
| Misc | Child Friendly, Freezable, Pre-preparable, Serve Cold, Serve Hot |
| Occasion | Barbecue, Birthday Party, Casual Party, Christmas, Easter, Formal Party, Thanksgiving, Valentines day |
| Region | British |
| By author | Delia Smith |
Ingredients
Ice cream
- 570 ml (1pint) condensed milk
- 275 ml (10 fluid oz) single cream
- 275 ml (10 fluid oz) creme fraiche
- 2 teaspoons vanilla paste
Fudge sauce
- 1 x 170 ml tin evaporated milk
- 225 g milk chocolate, broken onto small pieces
Topping and garnish
- chopped mixed nuts to garnish (about 50g (2 ozs))
- whipped cream
Note
A rather naughty ice cream sundae where vanilla ice cream is served with a hot chocolate fudge sauce, chopped mixed nuts and whipped cream. This recipe was taken and adapted slightly from Delia Smith's cookbook, Summer Collection.
Directions
| Step 1 | To make the ice cream, place all the ingredients into an ice cream maker and turn it on to churn for about 30 to 45 minutes. Spoon the ice cream into a freezer proof container and freeze until needed. Just before serving, take the ice cream out for a couple of minutes to soften slightly. (I made my ice cream in an ice cream maker, and not manually as Delia Smith suggests in her book) |
| Step 2 | To make the fudge sauce, pour the evaporated milk into a bowl that sits over a saucepan of boiling water and add the broken up chocolate pieces. Heat them together until the chocolate melts, and then continue to stir until you have a thick fudge sauce. |
| Step 3 | To serve the sundaes, scoop some ice cream into a serving bowl and then add some fudge sauce and chopped nuts, repeat again (3 scoops of ice cream per person) and then end with some whipped cream and more sauce and chopped nuts. |
GIVEAWAY:
Prize: Swan Ice Cream Maker RRP: £79:99
Product Description:
Come Dine With Me ice cream and gelato maker is improve and aid your cooking with the new Swan. Open lid to allow ingredients to be added while in motion. Detachable freezer bowl, mixing paddle and lid for easy cleaning. Glowing on/off dial. Ideal for making all kinds of Ice Cream. Also makes gelato, frozen yogurt and sorbets. Includes recipe book and CDWM game. Swan Come Dine With Me Ice cream / gelato maker is compact and comes in stylish Silver and White, it will effortlessly fit into your kitchen. 2 litre capacity.
Box Contains:
1 x Ice Cream and Gelato Maker
1 x Recipe Book
1 x CDWM Game
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Karen
Nice looking ice cream recipe and lovely photos. Although, I don’t particularly like creme fraiche so may try it with mascapone or ricotta instead.
IT’s just part of the basic ice cream mix Lynn, so I am not sure you would taste it!
Thanks Karen – I’m sure you’re right! However I wouldn’t be buying creme fraiche so fingers crossed it won’t make a difference to substitute it…
All ice cream is delicious (apart from rum n raisin – although I bet I get shot down in flames by someone about that!)
Thanks for the recipe!
I am a caramel and nut lover Lynn! And I am sure that your subs will work too! 😉
Hi Karen, just wanted to give you an update – I tried the recipe over the weekend! It came out lovely and I did use mascarpone – I suspect you’re right in that it made little difference in taste to use it. It was a bit grainy but that’s most certainly down to me having to do it the old fashioned way with a plastic tub in the bottom of my freezer and agitating it with a fork every half an hour! It was yummy anyway but my kids broke extra meringues in to it for ‘double yum’! thanks again!
Oh, I’m with you on that one. I can’t bear rum and raisin although Mr Glam loves it. GG
I love vanilla because I can add syrups, sauces or sprinkles on top!
Great choice Tracy!
Mint choc chip is my favourite but I love all ice cream.
That’s my daughter’s favourite flavour too Melanie!
Love mint ice cream!
For me, it’s got to be mint choc chip – it’s just so fresh and it makes me very nostalgic for summer holidays as a child when we would go to the ice cream farm near my grandparents house and I would spend what felt like hours surveying all the flavours, only to pick mint choc chip every time!
It seems that mint choc chip is proving to be very popular!
Vanilla because I like chopping up chocolate bars & adding that to make a super ice cream surprise
It’s such a great canvas for other flavours I agree!
Celtic Crunch – a toffee based ice cream layered with biscuit pieces, chocolate chips and nuts.
LOVE the sound of that one Gerri!
Oh my word. You me and Delia in one room. What would we do? I love this ice cream. It’s so sinful. It’s beautiful. Thank you so much for being so Delia random xxx
Thanks Dom and sorry it was a day late, just been SO busy lately! Karen
Oh and for me it’s mint choc chip every time x
That’s Hannah’s favourite too!
I tried Amaretto & Black Cherry ice cream while we were out for the day this week. It was scrummy!
That sounds divine!
I would say Black sesame but after the great british bake off debacle it’s rather put me off!
Yes – I know what you mean!
chocolate fudge xx
So this sundae is perfect for you then!
I’ll skip the nuts Karen, but apart from that count me in! I love strawberry cheesecake ice cream BTW.
LOVE the idea of strawberry cheesecake ice cream Jac!
You had me at condensed milk!
LOL! Thanks Patricia!
Old fashioned I know but I like Tutti Frutti icecream
This looks very decadent, perfect for Mr Glam’s sweet tooth. It looks so pretty with all your vintage props. GG
Thanks GG – and now you know where all the props come from too! 😉
Chocolate!!!! 🙂
Mmmm.. hard choice to pick a favourite flavour of ice cream, as both lavender and amaretto are both right up there. A really good vanilla ice cream always goes down well too. 🙂
Vanilla!
This looks amazing! I can’t decide between strawberry and mint chocolate chip.
The ice cream sounds heavenly Karen, Let’s raise a bowl to Saint Delia!
LOL! Let’s do that Stuart! 🙂
Pralines and cream is my favourite
cookies and cream
salter caramel is my favourite ice cream!
real vanilla bean ice cream as it’s a good base for adding flavours and toppings.
Cornish Vanilla
I would love to live in the UK again, for the sole reason of being able to enter all your wonderful giveaways! Not to mention all that luscious food I miss! I love Delia, too and your ice cream and sauce looks simply heavenly! You never cease to amaze me, Karen! Lovely work!
THANKS so much Christina! Why can’t you enter this and use a UK address whilst you are there?
I love vanilla because it is so versatile.
Raspberry x
Oh dear I missed Dom’s RR this month – things are out of control. I need this ice cream maker as mine went walkabout years ago ( but that’s another story) now I am left to making non- churn ice cream . chocolate fudge – what could be better.
Never mind Denise, I am sure Dom will forgive you! 🙂
ooh Karen, you naughty blogger! Delia Smith indeed, you have no need for her as you are just as good a cook as she is. I really would love that icecream maker and my favourite icecream flavour is pistachio.
LOL! You made me laugh Janice! 🙂 Good luck with the ice cream maker and thanks for your lovely comments too!
I love pistachio flavoured ice cream
If it’s really good quality, pistachio, otherwise, a cookie dough type option
My favourite is honeycomb crunch….. but it HAS to be very creamy! But to be honest…… I’ll eat anything as long as it’s made with good quality ingredients and is packed full of the flavour it purports to be!!
coconut
I love good old vanilla, but it has to be a premium one, not a cheap variety, or clotted cream ice cream, as they are a perfect base for any dessert. I usually pour some homemade jam over it
Mint choc chip
Strawberry.
I have bookmarked your creme fraiche ice cream Karen and now it looks like another one to add to the list. And the fuge bit reminds me of when we used to do similar in Sierra Leone.
My favourite ice cream is vanilla
I have always loved rum and raisin
Strawberry!
Honeycomb, love the sound of your recipe
I love vanilla covered in raspberry sauce yum yum
I like strawberry.
Mint Choc Chip for me!
Good old plain Vanilla – Love it!
Honeycomb 🙂
mint choc chip
Mint chocolate chip
Hoeycomb
Pistachio
Mint choc chip 🙂
Chocolate!
Mint Choc Chip 🙂
Mint choc chip
Pistachio Kulfi – delicious Indian Icecream!
Vanilla with mint chocolate chunks.
I recently made fudge and raspberry with marshmallow – it was heavenly
Wow I love ice cream!! shame about the nuts though as im serevely allergic… but it doesnt matter as I just wouldnt use nuts 😀
Chocolate 🙂
my favourite ice cream is cookie dough
Fudge flavour yum
mint choc chip for me and plain old chocolate for my daughter, my wife would view this as the tool of the devil and avoid.
Love good old raspberry ripple!
When I lived in Canada my favourite ice cream was maple pecan. Only see it occasionally in UK so it would be lovely to make some.
I love strawberry
I love all ice creams. We are a family obsessed!! I personally love Vanilla so i can add what i want to it. Fresh fruits or nuts – yum yum!
rum and raisin
Would be so great to make a chocolate & peanut butter ice cream!
Reeces Peanut Butter flavour is divine
vanilla with cookie dough
Salted Caramel is the best!
something refreshing like mint chocolate chip
wow, this looks amazing!!!
p.s i love salted caramel!
Rum and raisin for me
coconut
strawberry
Looks so yummy! My favourite ice cream is chocolate chip.x
mint choc chip
Strawberry Cheesecake flavour!
Rocky Road
vanilla
Raspberry ripple – I was quite excited to read the blog thinking Delia had really visited you!
Caramel!
Mint Choc Chip
Mmm looks lovely.
vannilla
Raspberry ripple! 🙂
Mint choc chip 🙂
Chocolate!
Strawberry
strawberry x
this makes me want to make a yummy sundae!!!
Rum and raisin
I love Rum & Raisin flavour
Banana :3
Rum & Raisin
Pistachio.
Chocolate is my favourite ice cream flavour 🙂
Mint Choc Chip
I rarely drink alcohol yet love both Baileys and Rum and Raisin ice cream.
Hazlenut praline Ice cream – yummy!
Mint
salted caramel
My favourite is coconut ice cream which is why I’d love an ice cream maker because for some reason none of the big brands make one
mint choc chip
my favorite isnt anything to fancy, just a really good creamy strawberry flavour… yummy
strawberry
Salted caramel
Rum and raisin – but it’s hard to get hold of so it would be great to make my own.
mint choc chip is yummy
My favourite is Baileys flavour
coconut flavour mmmmmmm
My favourite is Baileys ice cream
I’ll have to own up to being a tad boring and say vanilla, but vanilla ice cream has stuck with me through thick and thin 🙂
strawberry
I love Coffee & Walnut ice cream
mint choc chip
chocolate chip is me favourite
i love banana ice cream
raspberry ripple
choc chip it has to be 🙂
Strawberry
Cookie Dough Ice Cream 🙂
love a good vanilla
chocolate!!!!
vanilla
mint choc chip is the best! yummy! i dont really eat icecream but if theres mint choc chip around it doesnt last long!
mint
butterscotch
mint choc chips nom nom..
I love Maple Pecan Ice Cream
Honeycomb. Nom nom nom!
Strawberry and Clotted Cream!
I’ve always wanted an ice cream maker! Thanks for the awesome giveaway.
My favourite flavour is either thunder & lightening, or blackcurrant.. I can’t decide!
xo
salted caramel – yum x
rum and raisin x
I love vanilla icecream made with a real vanilla pod, rather than essence. Or vanilla icecream with chunks of strawberries in it.
Raspberry Ripple
Coffee… but preferably one scoop coffee and one scoop chocolate. xx
alted caramel
Raspberry or a proper vanilla but then again I can’t resist anything with pralines in it.
Strawberry
Pistachio! So underrated!
toffee fudge
Triple Chocolate!
Pistachio 🙂 x
White chocolate flavour!
Toffee
Mint choc chip
Vanilla ice cream with caramel sauce and toffee bits
Chocolate.
Has to be Raspberry Ripple everytime (although sometimes strawberry sneeks in there too).
Mint chocolate chip!
Mint choc chip
Chocolate
Mint Chocolate Chip 🙂
My favourite flavour is fudge or toffee. I also like honeycomb and most flavours with nuts in.
I like a variety!
I love good old fashioned peppermint! x
I love a really dark chocolate ice cream
Honeycomb
Mint
Rum & Raisin
Cookie dough
butterscotch!! 🙂 faye x
rum and raisin – the more rum the better!
Chocolate chip
Rum and Raisen 🙂
pistachio
Rum & Raisin!! Extra Rum hold the raisin LOL xx
It has to be mint choc chip, delicious.
pooh bear ice-cream with big chunks of honeycomb
Bailey’s Ice Cream 🙂
Not sure if it classes a A Flavour but I love Haagen Dazz Strawberry Cheesecake!
Rum and raisin
Neapolitan!
My favourite is mint chocolate chip! This ice cream maker looks amazing!
My favourite ice cream flavour is vanilla – preferably served with fresh strawberries!
It has to be Blakcherry & Chocolate MMMMM
Mint chocolate chip.
vanilla
Strawberry is my favourite.
Cherry & Custard – only found it in a few places but it’s yummy
Hard to choose I had a Christmas pudding flavour ice cream at a farm a couple of years ago which was a little strange but I love rum and raisin ice cream x
Honeycomb
strawberry and chocolate is my favourt
Strawberry
Chocolate chip =)
Mint chocolate chip
Cherry Ripple 🙂
Chocolate fudge
Vanilla
Mint Choc Chip.
I love butterscotch 🙂
Hokey Pokey
I love a proper vanilla. when made right it is delicious
Rum and raisin – so funny, when I was a little girl, I remember thinking when my mum ate rum raisin that it was such a ‘yukky’ flavour and i’ll never eat that when i could have chocolate, or strawberry – and now… I love it! Must be age 🙂 Thanks for lovely recipe too x
Chocolate – it so yummy!!
Cinnamon is my favorite ice cream however you don’t see it often.
Raspberry Ripple does it for me.
Chocolate
Cookie crisp
pistachio
Chocolate mmmm
Pistachio is the best! 🙂
Tiramisu ice cream! Was so happy when Haagen Dazs brought their one out!
Tutti Fruiti but not seen it for ages, going to have to try and make some
Bubblegum 🙂
Vanilla.
All the people that don’t like rum & raisin can sent it to me and I will eat it for them.
rum and raisin
I love chocolate with a salted caramel ripple yum xx
that choc fudge sundae looks amazing !!
Raspberry Ripple
I love mint choc chip ice cream 🙂
I have not found a flavour I do not like, these all sound yummy x
Raspberry ripple
mint choc chip
Neapolitan
hazelnut
Honeycomb!
My all time favourite was gino ginelli mint choc chip which had little bits of chewy toffee through it.
I love honeycomb icecream!
cherry and chocolate is my favourite ice-cream combination
Just a lovely creamy vanilla
Vanilla is my favourite 🙂
Strawberry
Dulce de leche or caramel pecan are my favourite flavours
Chocolate.
Vanilla
I love a good vanilla
Banana!
Chocolate
Pistachio
vanilla
You can’t beat good homemade vanilla!
Mint choc chip,
I love vanilla dairy ice-cream best as you can do anything with it and it goes with everything! The kids like to use different sauces and we get various sprinkles, berries and squirty cream to put on top!
Pistachio, which is so hard to find in the supermarkets!
love raspberry ripple
Raspberyy Ripple
I tried cookies and cream the other day on holiday, it was amazing
My favourite flavour of ice cream is mint choc chip
I like vanilla.
Chocolate orange
mmm love ice cream
chocolate 🙂
Toffee
Vanilla and chocolate swirl
Mint choc chip! Yum!
Pistachio is my favourite.
Lemon meringue with summer fruits from roys at Bardsea beach
mint choc chip
Love cookie dough and mint choc chip too but still hold rum and raisin dear to my heart!
Cookie Dough
Rum n raisin
I think i am quite boring 😀 I like vanilla ice cream then i add what i fancy to it depending on how i feel 🙂
Caramel or vanilla
Love butterscotch its my fave flavour ever
My favourite is Caramel x
A really good Vanilla ice cream is hard to beat, can add strawberries and crushed meringue, or crushed chocolate flake, nuts etc
I tried pecan and maple last summer and loved it
its amazing