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Tarta De Helado

11/24/2015

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     One of my favorite desserts - and I sampled many - along the Camino de Santiago de Compostela  was an ethereal confection called tarta de helado - ice cream cake,
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...which wasn't a cake exactly as we think of it, but consisted rather of artfully stacked layers of vanilla ice cream and chocolate shell.  Kind of like a reverse ice cream bar that you eat with a spoon.
     I ate manys the slice of tarta de helado along the Camino trail, and each time I did I thought, I could make this!  I could make an even better version!  There'd be nothing to it!
    
Last week  on my first attempt at making tarta de helado I discovered one could in fact make a better tarta de helado and that there really was nothing to it.
     Or at least not a whole lot.
     So anyway, with the holidays upon us, here's the recipe for an Americanized version of a yummy Spanish dessert that would be a quick, easy fix for a crowd.

Tarta de Helado
 Ingredients:

1.  About 1 1/2 (or so)  1.5 liter boxes of vanilla ice cream.  I used Turkey Hill vanilla bean.

2.  About a little more than one  bottle of chocolate shell.  (So buy two bottles). 
N.B.: Before you use the chocolate shell be sure to let the bottle sit in a bowl of sink-hot water for about five minute then shake it very well!

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Method
1.  Take a 9" x 9" ( or bigger or smaller as desired) square dish,

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...and cover the bottom  with a layer of ice cream.
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2.  Cover the ice cream with shell, which will freeze pretty quickly.
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3.  Add another layer of ice cream on top of the shell.
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4. Add one more layer each of shell and ice cream.

5. Decorate the top ice cream layer with more chocolate shell.  Freeze for a little while.  Maybe 20 minutes or so.
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6.  Cut into slices.  If your slices, like mine, end up being not quite as attractive as the restaurant version pictured above,  not to fear;
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....your audience will give rave reviews anyway!
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     Though for myself, being a purist, I'd stick to vanilla ice cream, I expect tarta de helado would also be good made with different flavors of ice cream such as mint chocolate chip, peppermint chip, cherry vanilla or, for die-hard chocoholics, chocolate ice cream.
     Whatever flavor ice cream you use, you probably can't go wrong, right?

2 Comments
Romaine
11/24/2015 06:34:39 am

That looks delish! I wonder how it would be if you added a layer of crushed cookies on the bottom to give it a little platform.

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Patti
11/24/2015 08:23:21 am

OMG I bet that would be sooooo good!

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