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.)

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Panettone and Coffee Ice Cream Cake

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Ingredients

  

• ½ cup sultanas
• ¼ cup brandy plus more for sprinkling
• 350 g panettone
• 500 ml double cream
• 385 g condensed milk
• salt
• 60 ml espresso (cooled)

Instructions

 

• Soak the sultanas in the brandy for about 30 minutes
• Line a 22cm loose-bottomed cake tin with baking paper
• Make a collar for the rim of the cake tin a few centimetres higher than the edge (use baking spray to make it stick)
• Place the prepared tin in the freezer
• Tear the panettone into chunks, place in a food processor and blitz to a coarse crumb
• Place 250ml double cream, and 192g condensed milk in the bowl of a standing mixer
• Add a good pinch of salt and whisk until soft peaks form
• Add the panettone crumbs and brandied sultanas and fold in till just mixed and spoon the mixture into the cake tin, smoothing the top
• Sprinkle the top with more brandy - about a tablespoon
• Place in the freezer for an hour
• Place the other 250ml cream and 192g condensed milk in the bowl of a standing mixer
• Add the cooled coffee and a good pinch of salt, and whisk until soft peaks form
• Spoon the mixture on top of the frozen cake mixture and smooth the top
• Cover and freeze for at least 6 hours or overnight