Fried Mexican Ice Cream

Total Time: 15 mins Preparation Time: 10 mins Cook Time: 5 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 pint vanilla ice cream
• 1/2 cup corn flakes or 1/2 cup cookie crumbs, crushed
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 2 teaspoons sugar
• 1 egg
• oil (for deep frying)
• honey
• whipped cream

Recipe

• 1 scoop out 4 or 5 balls of ice cream. return to freezer.
• 2 mix crumbs, cinnamon and sugar.
• 3 roll frozen ice cream balls in half the crumb mixture and freeze again.
• 4 beat egg and dip coated balls in egg, then roll again in remaining crumbs.
• 5 freeze until ready to use (for thicker coating repeat dipping in egg and rolling in crumbs).
• 6 when ready to serve, heat oil to 350 degrees.
• 7 place a frozen ice cream ball in fryer basket or on a perforated spoon and lower into hot oil 1 minute.
• 8 immediately remove and place on dessert compote.
• 9 drizzle with honey and top with a dab of whipped cream.
• 10 continue to fry balls one at a time.
• 11 balls will be crunchy on the outside and just beginning to melt on the inside.