Panettone and Coffee Ice Cream Cake

It has taken a while to get to this recipe for Panettone and Coffee Ice Cream Cake. I had been thinking about what to do with panettone after using it in a shot to promote one of my new surfaces and thick slices of it have been in the freezer since. Well, after eating the dome…

I could do a bread and butter pudding or french toast but felt that all those ideas have been done more than enough times. I can’t make a trifle look good enough to photograph so that was not an option and I then thought of doing a layered interpretation of Florence’s famous zuccotto di panettone but remembered I had eaten the dome so that won’t work.

So here is my Panettone and Coffee Ice Cream Cake. The panettone is blitzed to a crumb and mixed with a batch of ice cream, spooned into a cake tin, drizzled with brandy (it is 2020 after all) and frozen. Then I made another batch of ice cream, blended it with two hazelnut espressos, piled it on the frozen cake layer and froze it overnight. Easy and so delicious. I used a no-churn ice cream recipe from Nigella’s book Nigellissima but you could easily use 2 x 1-liter storebought ice cream. (I would replace the espresso with espresso powder if the ice cream is bought.)

I hope you enjoy this recipe for Panettone and Coffee Ice Cream Cake. If you’ve made it, share it with me by tagging @heinstirred on Instagram or Facebook with the hashtag #heinstirred. It is always a treat to see the recipes made and enjoy.

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