The vacherin is a delicious ice cream made with meringues. It is dressed with caramel sauce, chocolate sauce or coulis.
This recipe is quite easy to prepare !
For arround 2l ice-cream
- 5 eggs
- 100g of sugar
- 150cl of "Crème fraîche" (cream at least 30% fat)
- 100-150g of meringues
- vanilla sugar
- caramel sauce / coulis / ...
- Put cake mold in freezer 10 minutes before preparing. For a easier service, use long rectangular mold, and let a plastic wrap in it.
- Smash the meringues in medium pieces (5 to 20mm)
- Separate egg yolks and whites
- Mix egg yolks, cream, sugar and vanilla sugar together
- Make foam with egg whites
- Gently incorporate egg whites foam with the first preparation
- Put caramel sauce in the cake mold
- Put a first layer of ice cream, then meringue crumbs, another layer of ice cream and finally crumbs again
- Put in freezer for at least 4 hours
- Remove from freezer arround 15 minutes before serving