Ice cream log with tsoureki and dried fruits

Ingredients

For the log

• A few slices of tsoureki
• Some dried fruits of your preference, chopped in small pieces
• 1 dose of “Mastic or vanilla ice cream”

For the “Mastic or vanilla ice cream”

• 120 g sugar
• 120 g water
• 5 egg yolks
• 500 g heavy cream whipped until frothy

Add some more flavour with 4 drops of mastic extract or 5 g of mastic powder. If your tsoureki contains mastic don’t add more. If you don’t like the mastic aroma, use vanilla extract. 

Preparation

Chop the dried fruits in small pieces. Cut the tsoureki in thin slices, about 0,5 cm.

For the ice cream

Whip the heavy cream in the mixer until frothy and put it in the fridge until you need it.

In a saucepan boil the water with sugar and make a syrup. Once it starts to boil keep it in the heat for 2-3 minutes and then remove it.

Separate the yolks from the egg whites. Beat the yolks in the mixer. While beating the eggs pour slowly the boiling hot syrup. This way you pasteurise the yolks. Keep beating until the mixture is a frothy cream and the mixer bowl is full.

Add to the mixture the whipped cream you prepared previously. Stir gently to incorporate. Add mastic or vanilla, the pieces of fruit and mix gently.

Cover a mold with cling film that protrudes at the edges and pour in 1/3 of the ice cream. Spread the slices of tsoureki. Continue with ice cream, slices again and finish with the rest of the ice cream. Fold the film covering the surface of the ice cream and place it in the freezer for at least 4 hours to harden.

Source: https://cookeatup.com/en/ice-cream-log-with-tsoureki-and-dried-fruits/