Dulce de Leche Ice Cream in Piloncillo Tortilla Cups

This easy recipe for homemade dulce de leche ice cream is made with milk, heavy cream and store bought dulce de leche. Creamy, dreamy this ice cream is a snap to make and taste like it took hours to make.  I like to make a triple batch and store it snuggled between the frozen veggies in my freezer. No one seems to look there for frozen treats.

Wonderful to serve for a fiesta or great for a ice cream bar I like to serve it with a handful of finely diced pecans for a bit of crunch. When Old El Paso asked me to create a fun recipe using their stand ‘n stuff tortilla shells I knew this was the perfect vessel to hold my creamy dulce de leche ice cream.

I brushed them with melted butter, sprinkled them with piloncillo and crisped them in the oven.  The tortilla becomes crispy, flaky and caramelized from the piloncillo.  A sweet crispy shell is the perfect bowl for a huge scoop of ducle de leche ice cream. Yum!

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Dulce de Leche Ice Cream in Piloncillo Tortilla Cups

Author: Vianney Rodriguez

Ingredients

• 4 Old El Paso stand and stuff tortilla shells
• ¼ cup butter melted
• ¼ cup grated piloncillo
• 2 cups milk
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1 ½ cups dulce de leche
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• ¼ cup finely chopped pecans

Instructions

1. To Make Dulce de Leche Ice Cream:
2. In a saucepan bring milk and cream to a boil, remove from heat add dulce de leche and whisk until dissolved. Whisk in vanilla, pour into a bowl and place in fridge to chill, about 4 hours. After four hours pour into the bowl of an ice cream machine and freeze according to the manufactures’ instructions. Transfer to a container, place in freezer until ready to serve.
3. To Make Piloncillo Tortilla Cups:
4. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly brush inside and outside of stand and stuff tortilla shells with melted butter and sprinkle with grated piloncillo. Place on baking sheet, bake for 8-13 minutes or until crispy.
5. To Serve:
6. Scoop dulce de leche ice cream into piloncillo tortilla cup, sprinkle with pecans.

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