Fig ice cream can be made with fresh or dried figs and can be flavored with other fruits, nuts, and flavorings. Key ingredients are raw eggs, heavy cream, and sugar. Recipes vary, but typically involve cooking and blending figs with other ingredients before freezing in an ice cream maker. Egg-free options are also available.
When figs are in season at the end of summer, it’s the perfect time to dust off the ice cream maker and try fig ice cream. The frozen treat can be made using fresh or dried figs. Fig ice cream flavors range from plain fig to a blend of figs and other fruits, nuts, and flavorings, such as banana fig ice cream. Similar to many other ice creams, the key ingredients in most types of fig ice cream are raw eggs, heavy cream, and sugar.
Fig ice cream recipes with dried figs typically call for 6 to 10 figs. The figs are cut into small pieces and the stems are removed. The eggs are separated and the whites are whipped until stiff. The yolks are blended with the figs and the cream is whipped. The ingredients are folded together, sugar is added to taste, and the mixture is frozen before being made into a churn.
Using fresh figs to make ice cream often involves cutting the figs into several pieces, removing the stems, and cooking them with lemon water until tender. The figs are cooled, then added to the remaining ice cream ingredients. The concoction is typically refrigerated before being placed in an ice cream maker.
Louisiana fig ice cream contains milk, sugar and pureed, preserved figs. The eggs are separated and the whites are whipped until firm before being added to the mixture. Figs are already sweet, so the amount of sugar used in many fig ice cream recipes is simply a matter of taste. Separating the eggs during the ice cream making process offers a lighter texture to the finished fig ice cream.
The banana fig ice cream also features fig preserves. The preserves are combined with vanilla ice cream and a large frozen banana that has been mashed. The mixture is frozen until firm, then served topped with caramel sauce.
Two fig ice cream combines dried and fresh figs. Dried figs are boiled in water and left to fill. The fresh figs are cut into quarters and cooked together with water and lemon zest. The two groups of figs are combined with sugar and agave syrup, cooked and blended. This mixture is added to yogurt and lemon juice and chilled before being taken out of the oven in an ice cream maker.
An egg-free fig ice cream option is also available. The recipe calls for fresh or dried figs, milk and honey. Instead of eggs, cornmeal and condensed milk can be substituted. Sherry is an optional ingredient in the recipe and chopped walnuts are used for garnish.
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