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Banana Ice Cream & Brown Sugar Crumble Sundae with Bourbon Caramel

More chef whimsies updating classic banana flavors include this dessert from Chef Bill Corbett at the Boxing Room in San Francisco: brown sugar crumble topped with banana ice cream and bourbon-laced caramel.

--Monica Kass Rogers

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For the banana ice cream:

  • 3 cups half-and-half
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 8 large egg yolks
  • 1 and ¼ cup sugar
  • 4 large ripe bananas (with brown spots on skin)
  • 2 tsp lime juice
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 2 tsp pure vanilla extract

For the bourbon caramel:

  • 2 cups sugar
  • 1/2 cup bourbon
  • 1/4 cup water
  • 1 orange peel
  • 1/4 vanilla bean, scraped

For brown sugar crumble:

  • 2 ¼ cups all-purpose flour
  • 1 cup brown sugar
  • ½ tsp salt
  • 6 oz cold butter in 1-inch cubes
Instructions
  1. Place half-and-half and cream in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Heat to a simmer, stirring occasionally and remove from heat.
  2. In medium mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks
  3. Temper cream mixture into the eggs and sugar by gradually adding small amounts, until a bout a third of the cream mixture has been added
  4. Pour in remainder and return entire mixture to pan, placing over low heat
  5. Continue to cook, stirring frequently, until the mixture thickens slightly and coats the back of a spoon and reaches 170 to 175 degrees
  6. Pour mixture into a container and allow to sit at room temperature for 30 minutes. Stir in vanilla extract, mashed bananas and salt
  7. Place in refrigerator uncovered for ½ hour. Cover and refrigerate overnight. Pour into ice cream maker and process according to manufacturers directions, to solid ice cream form (25 to 30 minutes) Serve as is for soft serve, or freeze another 3 to 4 hours for hard ice cream, over brown sugar crumble, with caramel on top
  8. To make Bourbon Caramel: heat small amounts of the sugar in a deep pot until it liquifies, gradually adding a little more sugar, until all liquifies. Once caramel is dark and starts to get a little foamy, deglaze with remaining ingredients adding half the liquid and letting the sugar dissolve, then adding the remaining liquid. Let caramel simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. Remove from heat and let rest for 30 minutes before straining, cooling and serving
  9. To make Brown Sugar Crumble: combine first three ingredients in food processor and pulse to mix thoroughly. Add cold, cubed butter and pulse until mixture is sandy and there are no visible butter chunks. Spread into cookie sheet and bake at 325 until golden; about ½ hour. Cool and break into crumble.

 

The possibilities of things you can do with the parts that make up this dish, are endless. But put together, the flavor/textural combination is perfect. --MKR

 
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