Spring ice cream cake

Elderflower ice cream and berry sorbet cake with almond dacquoise.


Spring ice cream cake
Rolling pin and whisk

Debic's Culinary Team

Debic

Ingredients

For 1 servings

Elderflower ice cream - base mix

673 g full-cream milk

33 g skimmed milk powder

104 g Debic Cream 40%

137 g sucrose

32 g dried glucose

14 g dextrose

5 g binder

Elderflower sorbet

500 g elderflower syrup (30°Brix)

435 g water

30 g sucrose

20 g dextrose

5 g atomised glucose

5 g stabiliser

5 g inulin

Strawberry and forest fruit sorbet

125 g fresh strawberries

125 g forest fruit purée

155 g sugar syrup

80 g water

10 g inulin

5 g sucrose

5 g lemon juice

0.5 g binder

Almond dacquoise

500 g egg white

100 g sucrose

750 g ground almonds 50%

50 g flour

Meringue

500 g egg white

500 g sucrose

500 g icing sugar

Yellow glaze

50 g Debic Cream with Sugar

1 g vanilla caviar

1 ring of baked almond crumble

4 meringue dots

Chocolate decoration

Preparation

Elderflower ice cream - base mix

Mix the binder with 10 times its weight in sugar.

Mix the full-cream milk and milk powder, then heat to 25 °C.

Add the sugars.

Add the Cream 40%.

Add the binder with the sugar.

Pasteurise the mixture at 85 °C and then cool as quickly as possible to 4 °C. 

Leave the mixture to mature at 4°C for 4 to 12 hours.

Elderflower sorbet

Heat all the ingredients to 85 °C.

Then cool as quickly as possible to 4 °C.

Leave the mixture to mature at 4 °C.

Weigh out 2600 g of base mix and add 1400 g of elderflower sorbet.

Mix for 2 minutes.

Churn the elderflower ice cream.

Strawberry and forest fruit sorbet

Chop the strawberries and defrost the fruit purée.

Mix in the water, sugar syrup and lemon juice.

Mix the binding agent with the sucrose and inulin.

Blend the strawberries together with the liquids and add the binder and sugar-inulin mixture.

Leave to mature for 15-20 minutes and churn.

Almond dacquoise

Beat the egg whites with the sucrose until fluffy.

Sieve the ground almonds and flour and mix with the beaten egg whites.

Spread on baking sheets and bake at 180 °C for 11 minutes.

Meringue

Whip the egg whites and gradually add the sucrose.

Mix in the icing sugar.

Using a piping bag with a smooth nozzle, pipe into neat lines.

Sprinkle with roasted coconut.

Bake at 90 °C for 120 minutes.

Assembly

Fill a silpat mat or circle 3 to 4 cm in diameter smaller than the cake tin with the elderflower ice cream.

Leave to set in the freezer. 

Line the silicone cake tin with the strawberry and forest fruit sorbet.

Push in the elderflower ice cream and smooth over with the forest fruit sorbet.

Finish with a layer of almond dacquoise.

Leave to set in the freezer.

Glaze the cake with a yellow glaze and finish with a ring of almond crumble.

Finishing touch

Whip the Cream with Sugar together with the vanilla until light and airy.

Pipe tufts of whipped cream onto the ring and finish off with the meringue dots and chocolate decoration.

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