Many dinner parties begin with cheese, crackers and wine as an appetizer, but this iconoclastic sundae makes a novel finale to a summer dinner for adults.
Ingredients
Instructions
Further Details
Ingredients
- half gallon of premium vanilla ice cream
- one batch of Zinfandel sauce
- 2 tablespoons of Zinfandel
- 2 cups of whipping cream
- 2-8 ounce bars of cream cheese
- 8 tablespoons of powdered sugar
- 12 to 15 large graham crackers
- a few drops of milk
Instructions
- In a food processor, pulse the graham crackers until they are crumbs. Set aside.
- With an electric mixer, beat the cream cheese and 4 of the tablespoons of powdered sugar. Add drops of milk until the sweetened cheese can be piped. Fill a pastry bag with the cheese mixture and set aside.
- Combine the 2 cups of whipping cream and 4 tablespoons of powdered sugar and whip with an electric beater until firm. Add the 2 tablespoons of Zinfandel and continue whipping until incorporated. Fill a pastry bag with the whipped cream and set aside.
- Place one or two scoops of ice cream in each of your serving glasses.
- Pipe concentric circles of the cream cheese mixture on top of the ice cream. Don't put too much cream cheese into the sundae, two or three concentric circles are enough.
- Spoon a generous amount of Zinfandel sauce on each sundae.
- Sprinkle some graham cracker crumbs on top of the sauce.
- Pipe the whipped cream on top of each sundae.
- Decorate by sprinkling graham cracker crumbs on top of the whipped cream and serve quickly.
Equipment needed
- ice cream scoop
- electric mixer
- food processor
- 2 pastry bags with or without decorating tips
- measuring tablespoon
- spoon
- glasses for serving
If you don't have a food processor, you can place the graham crackers in a plastic bag and pound them with a heavy object until they are crumbs.
Try substituting
mascarpone for the cream cheese if you'd like a tangier sundae.
Makes about 6 sundaes.
Makes about 6 sundaes.