The first reaction to a new ice cream trend is always surprise.
Ice cream, like clothes, is also in fashion at the resort.
This year, black ice cream has become fashionable. Incredibly attractive, refreshing and very tasty.
Starting this year, not only the usual white, chocolate, creme brulee, and multi-colored ice cream are available for free sale, but also black ice cream.
This ice cream came to the world from Japan, where it appeared at the beginning of the 21st century. Like all unexpected new products, it aroused interest and was liked by many tasters. Black ice cream began to spread quickly and was enjoyed everywhere, and the inventor of black ice cream received his dividends, quickly becoming rich.
The idea of delicious new black ice cream was continued throughout Asia, in America, then in England and the European Union, and now in Russia, where the population happily eats the black delicacy in a black waffle cup.
What is unusual black ice cream made from?
Taste, color and main ingredient of black ice cream from Japan
The original ice cream, invented in Japan, is not black in color, but gray, with an ashen tint. This is due to the presence in ice cream of such a food ingredient as black sesame seeds (urbech) in large quantities. The taste of the ice cream clearly has a hint of sesame.
Taste, color and main ingredient of black ice cream from America
In America, black ice cream was first offered at Morgenstern’s Cafe in New York City. It looks really very unusual. One gets the impression that this is a fake, and not a delicious dessert. In this natural product, the base and, accordingly, the color is coconut ash. It can be obtained in a simple way by firing coconut shells.
Instead of coconut ash, you can use activated carbon, which is known for its main function of cleansing the body, especially in case of food poisoning.
In this black ice cream, its creator uses high-fat cow butter and coconut flakes with milk. This gives the ice cream a pleasant coconut aftertaste.
Taste, color and main ingredient of black ice cream from Russia
In Russia, preference in preparing black ice cream, new to the population, is given to something absolutely harmless to the human body - charcoal in combination with the kernels of two types of nuts - cashews and almonds. The pleasant nutty aroma in taste and the unusual black color for ice cream sundae made it a “hit” of this summer season.
How to make your own black ice cream?
Surprisingly, black ice cream is quite easy and simple to prepare yourself in your home kitchen. Its preparation does not require any special skills or abilities. The result will definitely exceed all expectations. Surprise and delight from loved ones is guaranteed.
Grocery set of ingredients for black ice cream:
- very fat milk (from 6%) – 300 ml;
- very fat cream (from 35%) - 300 g;
- yolks from fresh large chicken eggs – 6 pcs;
- sweet paste from black sesame seeds (sold in the grocery section of the supermarket) – 150 g;
- fine powdered sugar – 150 g;
- sugar-vanilla powder – 40 g.
Step-by-step recipe for making ice cream:
- In a thick-bottomed non-stick saucepan, combine milk and half the amount of cream (150 g).
- Place the saucepan with the milk mixture over high heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer the mixture for a couple of minutes.
- In a special bowl, grind both types of sugar with the yolks using a blender with a whisk attachment.
- Without ceasing to work with the blender, gradually add a warm mixture of cream and milk into the sweet yolk.
- Pour the resulting sweet yolk-milk mass into the same thick-bottomed pan and place over low heat.
- Stirring constantly, cook the sweet yolk-milk mass for about 5 minutes until a cream of uniform consistency forms.
- Now it's time to add sweet black sesame seed paste to the mixture. Mix it thoroughly into the resulting warm cream. Cool.
- Beat unused cream (150 g) with a blender until stable peaks form.
- Add whipped cream to the now cooled black cream and mix again with a blender.
- Transfer the whipped black mass into a container with a lid and place it in the freezer to harden for 4 hours.
- The prepared black delicious ice cream sundae is impressively served in a black waffle cone.
To give the black ice cream a creamier taste, together with the cream you can beat 75 g of sweet-creamy natural butter with a fat content of more than 82.5%.
In the boring bustle of the city, you constantly want something unusual, but at the same time tasty and, possibly, healthy. Someone will say “we got too greedy,” well, that’s possible. But ice cream production campaigns are constantly fighting for customers, competing with each other, coming up with something new and unusual, not like everyone else. And here it is, the HIT of the season from LLC “UK NovoKuzbassHolding” - black ice cream with milk fat substitute and brownie flavor in a black waffle cone “Siberian Coal” (TU 9226-002-01444294-2012).
Composition of Siberian Coal ice cream
- water;
- granulated sugar;
- skimmed milk powder;
- butter;
- milk fat substitute;
- whole milk powder;
- glucose syrup;
- dry whey;
- stabilizer-emulsifier;
- natural dye - vegetable charcoal;
- brownie flavoring;
- The black cone is made of flour, water, vegetable oil, sugar, emulsifier (soy lecithin), natural dye - vegetable charcoal.
Is it possible to eat Siberian Coal ice cream?
The composition of the Siberian Coal ice cream is, to put it mildly, imperfect. The presence of a milk fat substitute or unnatural flavoring does not add value to the product. Vegetable charcoal dye is ordinary coal obtained by charring materials of organic origin.
Vegetable charcoal is not activated carbon!
It is a mistake to believe that black ice cream, which contains carbon, has the same properties as activated carbon. Vegetable charcoal does not have a high sorption capacity, it is not activated, that is, it will not cleanse your body of toxins, as many people think. Vegetable charcoal is just a natural dye.
By the way, after eating black ice cream “Siberian Coal” your tongue turns black.
Conclusion: black ice cream “Siberian Coal” can be eaten to a limited extent; of course, there is no benefit from it, but there is no obvious harm either. But still, every person should think about the naturalness of the food they eat, because ingredients such as milk fat substitute definitely have a small, gradual and negative effect on the human body.
It's summer, and summer means ice cream time!
For the third year in a row, charcoal ice cream has been popular. It is offered in cafes and restaurants, sold in kiosks and shops, the media and social network users write about it, willingly publishing photographs of the black delicacy on their pages.
Many people wonder if ice cream actually contains charcoal. It turns out there is. Ice cream is colored black using natural food coloring - vegetable charcoal. The raw material for it can be crushed and purified coal or any plant material processed by carbonization. Recently, black food coloring is more often obtained by the carbonization method: wood, coconut shells or other plant materials are placed in special installations, where they are converted into coal through high temperature and high pressure. By varying the starting products, you can get the dye of the desired shade.
You can make your own charcoal ice cream and it's quite easy. There are many video instructions on the Internet that will help you prepare it. And in the absence of food coloring, you can use crushed activated carbon.
Here is one recipe for homemade charcoal ice cream. It is especially suitable for those who are wary of raw eggs in prepared foods. For the “brave”, there are faster recipes, without heat treatment of the ingredients (at the end of the article there are links to several videos).
· 1 glass of milk 3.5-6%
· 1/2 cup cream 30%
· 2 egg yolks
· 1/3 cup powdered sugar
Vanillin on the tip of a knife
· 20 tablets of activated carbon, crushed into powder
1. Pour the milk and cream into a saucepan and heat until the mixture begins to steam, but do not let it boil!
2. Beat the yolks, add powdered sugar and vanillin, beat again. Pour in the hot cream and milk mixture. This must be done extremely slowly and gradually, stirring continuously so that the eggs do not curl.
3. The finished mixture must be heated again in the pan, adding crushed coal (again, do not let it boil).
4. After this, remove the pan from the heat and let the mixture cool at room temperature, stirring occasionally.
5. Once cooled, transfer the mixture to a sealable container and place in the freezer overnight.
6. When you open the container in the morning, you will most likely find pieces of ice on the surface. To ensure the consistency of the ice cream is homogeneous, the mixture must be stirred with a spoon or mixer and put back in the refrigerator for several hours. After this, the ice cream will be ready to eat!
Not so long ago, our region was captured by a wave of “fashionable black ice cream” under the proud name “Siberian Coal”. So what is it made of? Why is it black? Today I would like to tell you about this.
The design of this ice cream is in black colors and silver inscriptions. Everything is “black”.
Ice cream with milk fat substitute and brownie flavor.
I really want to taste the brownie.
So, let's look at the composition. What makes this ice cream black?
Water, granulated sugar, skimmed milk powder, butter, milk fat substitute, whole milk powder, glucose syrup, cheese whey powder, stabilizer-emulsifier, waffle cone, Brownie flavor, natural coloring - vegetable charcoal.
Here! This means that we have vegetable charcoal in our composition. This is what gives the ice cream its black appearance.
Manufacturer:
JSC "Novokuznetsk Cold Storage Plant", Russia, Altai Republic, Gorno-Altaisk.
The ice cream is opened using a special “tab”, which is not so easy to tear off.
Having dealt with the opener, we got this ice cream.
Apparently, due to the heat, my ice cream became a little “tired” and took on a slightly unpresentable appearance.
As you can see, the color of this “Siberian Coal” is black-coal.
The horn is also different from the usual one. It has a black color. Even darker than the ice cream itself.
Taste. The ice cream actually tastes like brownie. Very interesting and subtle taste. I didn't notice any charcoal taste. The cone tastes like ordinary chocolate. Indeed, when you eat Siberian Coal, you get tremendous pleasure.
But, there is a drop of ointment in all this delicious bliss. After using it, I discovered that my tongue, mouth and even lips turned black!!! For aesthetic reasons, I will add the photo to the quote.
Of course, this is a temporary phenomenon, but not a pleasant one.
Thank you for your attention to my review!
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This dessert, which has recently become popular, is not losing ground and its customers are becoming more and more popular.
Different manufacturers achieve black coloring in different ways: some use activated carbon, coconut ash in some cases, some use prunes, some use a mixture of blueberries and licorice, and some use black sesame.
A little color ingredient is added so that it does not radically spoil the taste of the ice cream. And for a greater emphasis on the outside, they also use a black waffle cone.
And someone combines colors and makes several balls of different colors.
The option with activated carbon has a plus - it is a good enterosorbent, but there is also a minus - along with removing harmful substances from the body, it also removes some useful vitamins and minerals.
Cons of ice cream
But don't forget about the disadvantages of ice cream:
- high calorie content,
- not recommended for ulcers and gastritis,
- It is better not to eat for those who are often sick,
- Diabetics and those with high cholesterol should be careful when choosing ice cream; they should pay attention to the composition. There are options with inulin instead of sugar and without animal fats.
- You need to be careful with flavored specimens.
- You may get a headache from a sharp drop in temperature and vasospasm.
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