Amaretto Cherry Gelato
A custard gelato flavored with amaretto liqueur, folded with sweet cherries and amaretti cookies.
⏱️ Prep: 10 min🍳 Cook: 1440 min
Ingredients
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | whole milk |
| 1/2 cup | 120 ml | heavy cream |
| 1/3 cup | 80 ml | granulated sugar |
| 3 large | egg yolks | |
| 1/2 teaspoon | 2.5 ml | vanilla extract |
| 1 1/2 tablespoon | 23 ml | amaretto liqueur |
| 3/4 cup | 180 ml | pitted sweet cherries, halved (fresh or thawed frozen) |
| 3 tablespoon | 45 ml | chopped amaretti cookies, for mix-in |
| pinch | fine sea salt |
Instructions
- In a small saucepan, combine milk, heavy cream, and half of the sugar. Place over medium heat and cook, stirring occasionally, until steaming but not boiling, about 3–4 minutes.
- In a separate bowl, whisk together egg yolks, remaining sugar, vanilla extract, and salt until smooth.
- Slowly pour about ⅓ of the hot milk mixture into the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly to temper.
- Pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan and return to medium-low heat. Cook, stirring constantly with a rubber spatula, until the mixture thickens and reaches 170°F–175°F on an instant-read thermometer, about 3–5 minutes.
- Remove from heat and stir in amaretto liqueur.
- Make sure pint base is closed. Pour mixture through a fine-mesh strainer into an empty CREAMi® Swirl Pint to remove any lumps.
- Stir in the pitted cherries.
- Place pint in an ice bath to cool for 15–20 minutes, stirring occasionally. Once cooled, place storage lid on pint and freeze for 24 hours.
- Remove pint from freezer and remove lid from pint. Place Swirl Pint in outer bowl, install Creamerizer™ Paddle onto outer bowl lid, and lock the lid assembly on the outer bowl. Slide bowl assembly onto motor base and twist the handle right to raise the platform and lock in place.
- Select SCOOP, then select GELATO.
- With a spoon, create a 1½-inch wide hole that reaches the bottom of the pint. Add chopped amaretti cookies to the hole in the pint and process again using the MIX-IN program.
- When processing is complete, remove gelato from the pint and serve immediately.