Chocolate Covered Ice-cream Balls

Total Time: 35 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• 1 liter vanilla ice cream
• 1 tablespoon gelatin
• 2 tablespoons water
• 3 tablespoons liqueur (your choice)
• 125 g dark chocolate
• 60 g solid vegetable shortening (this is sold as kremelta in new zealand and copha in australia)

Recipe

• 1 sprinkle gelatine over water in a small bowl.
• 2 place bowl over a container of hot water until the gelatine is dissolved, then cool.
• 3 beat ice-cream until creamy, add gelatine and liqueur and beat until just combined.
• 4 pour ice-cream mixture into a container and freeze for several hours or overnight until firm.
• 5 before making these ball put an oven tray into freezer to become very cold.
• 6 working very quickly using a melon baller scoop out balls of ice-cream and put on cold tray. it helps to dip the melon baller into cold water before rolling out each ball.
• 7 place tray with balls, back into the freezer and freeze until firm.
• 8 remove tray from feezer and push small wooden sticks (toothpicks) into each ball at a slight angle then replace tray in freezer.
• 9 once you get to this stage put chocolate and shortening in a bowl over simmering water to melt.
• 10 remove from heat and allow to cool slightly.
• 11 pour chocolate into a small drinking glass then dip each ball into mixture, coating each one well.
• 12 put chocolate covered balls on to a cold tray and return to freezer until firm.