#Brambleberry crisp plus#

Whisk the cream cheese and salt in a medium bowl until smooth.Ĭombine the remaining milk, the cream, sugar, corn syrup, and vanilla seeds and bean in a 4-quart heavy duty saucepan, bring to a rolling boil over medium-high heat, and boil for 4 minutes. Mix about 2 tablespoons of the milk with the tapioca starch in a small bowl to make a smooth slurry.

#Brambleberry crisp plus#

Copywrite 2011.ġ tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon tapioca or cornstarchĢ tablespoons light corn or tapioca syrupġ vanilla bean, split and seeds scraped out You can use whatever your taste buds desire raspberries, cherries, blackberries, blueberries, even rhubarb would taste great in this.Įxcerpted from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home by Jeni Britton Bauer (Artison Books). I used boysenberries, which is a hybrid of raspberry and blackberries. Jeni’s brambleberry crisp ice cream uses black raspberries, blackberries and black currants.

While your custard is chilling you will prepare the berry mix in. Then, once this has been covered and chilled in the refrigerator, remove the vanilla bean and churn it in an ice cream maker. Then, while whisking the smooth cream cheese, slowly pour in the custard. I set a timer for this as well, just to be sure. Bring the mixture back to a boil over medium-high heat and boil until thick, about 1 minute. You may need to re-whisk the corn starch before pouring it in if any settled at the bottom. Once the timer goes off, remove the saucepan from the heat and slowly whisk in the corn starch mixed with the milk. Bring that to a boil over medium-high heat and set a timer for 4 minutes. I will be looking forward to reviewing more Jeni's flavors in the future.From there you will combine the rest of the milk with heavy cream, sugar, corn syrup and a vanilla bean that has been split and seeded in a heavy duty saucepan. Once you get past the sticker shock, though, it is very good ice cream. In the past, I'd occasionally get double-takes from cashiers while they rang up eight dollar pints of McConnell's - Jeni's is even more than that. This pint was ten dollars at Whole Foods. A word of warning, though: Jeni's is not cheap. One of the best pints I've had in terms of quality and combinations of flavors. The fact that the jam was isolated to a swirl on the side was worried me at first after the mixing issues that I encountered in a similar Steve's flavor, but it was very easy to get a little bit of jam into every spoonful.Ī very successful pint. The jam was tasty, not too tart and not too sweet. I briefly wondered if the ice cream would even melt if I left it out on the counter but I ate it fast enough anyways. I didn't taste the tapioca but it did its job of keeping the ice cream both thick and soft at the same time. The vanilla & streusel base was delicious. The swirl of jam is thick and off to one side of the pint. If you look really close you can see vanilla bean specks as well.

The vanilla base is visible with golden colored oat specks visible. On to the ice cream! Opening the pint took a bit of effort because the jam had formed a bond with the lid. The crisp means that oat streusel has been mixed in to give the sensation that you are having a slice of berry pie with vanilla ice cream. Here, Jeni's specifically uses a jam make with blackberries and blackcurrants. 'Bramble' is a vague term usually associated with blackberries, raspberries or other cane berries. The first Jeni's flavor I am trying is Brambleberry Crisp. I like tapioca, so that sounds intriguing. Many brands use either egg yolks or guar gum to give their ice cream the right consistency - thick without being icy. What appears to set her apart from other ice cream makers is her choice of thickening agent. Just the type of thing that makes for interesting reviews. She focuses on creative flavor combinations using high quality ingredients. Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream was founded in Columbus, Ohio by Jeni Britton Bauer in 2002. Whole Foods is now in my rotation of places to check for ice cream. A whole row of Jeni's ice cream flavors as well as some Coolhaus flavors I hadn't seen before and a couple of Three Twins flavors as well. Anyways, off I went to the Whole Foods this past weekend and I was pleasantly surprised at what I saw in the freezer case. First, they don't sell Diet Coke there and second, I associate Whole Foods with things such as hummus and organic rutabaga - not tasty desserts. I don't usually find myself at Whole Foods. It turns out the only place near me that carries Jeni's is Whole Foods. After another request last week, I checked online for where in San Diego to get it. I have been getting requests for reviews of pints of Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream for quite a while but I haven't been able to find any pints at the grocery stores that I frequent. Brambleberry Crisp - Vanilla Ice Cream with Brambleberry Jam and an Oat Streusel