What can I add to soften too hard peanut butter ice cream?
My staff is having a hard time scooping our Peanut Butter Ice cream. It's too rock hard. We make the Ice cream in-house using a 15% Super Premium base. I want to know what can I add to soften the ice Cream.
Here is the Recipe:
- 52 oz of liquid Peanut Butter
- 1 oz Vanilla Extract
- 2.5 Gallons of Ice Cream Base
- We run the ice cream at max level 12 in our Caprigani Ice Cream Machine
The Stabilizers in the Base: Mono & Diglycerides, Cellulose Gum, Gaur Gum, Carrageenan, Dextrose, Silicone Dioxide to prevent caking.
Best Answer
Heat the scoop?
If you are serving lots of ice cream maybe you already have one of these. If not it might come in handy. The flowing water warms up the scoop which then more easily cuts its way thru the hard ice cream.
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How do you soften hard peanut butter?
You can soften hard peanut butter by keeping the jar out of the fridge for 10-15 minutes. If it is wintertime, you may need to keep the jar in hot water. That is it. Your peanut butter is soft again and ready to enjoy.How do you make ice cream soft again?
Softening your ice cream in the microwave is another quick way to thaw your favorite dessert:How do you thin out peanut butter?
Peanut butter is super forgiving and is easily thickened or thinned by the addition of water and/or heat.How does ice cream stay soft in the freezer?
As the ice cream mixture is cooled down, some of the water freezes and forms ice crystals. The concentration of sugar increases in the rest of the water, lowering the freezing point of the sugar-water solution \u2013 just like the salt in the example above. As a result, the ice cream stays soft.Peanut Butter Ice Cream (No-Machine) | Episode 1170
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Answer 2
Sugar or alcohol make IC softer. On denser flavors like dark chocolate and PB, we use 1/3 C vodka to 3 Gallons IC. Sugar works too but if you do not want to add sweetness - vodka is the trick.
Answer 3
Let it sit and partially melt, until it is soft enough. That should solve your problem! As pointed out in comments, storing it at a slightly higher temperature should prevent the problem from happening in the future.
Answer 4
A quick but probably undesirable answer is that you can add alcohol to ice cream in order to not allow it to freeze as hard. I'm guessing however that you are not looking to get your patrons drunk and to be fair I can't imagine an alcohol that would go well with peanut butter, so we won't go with that.
That being said ice cream freezes very hard when there is low fat content in the product. Higher water content = more icy consistency. Stabilizers are added in order to give the appearance of creaminess despite not having a high fat content by retarding the growth of ice crystals.
The best thing to do would be to check an ice cream recipe that doesn't freeze very hard and try to aim for a fat content that is similar to that. I've never used liquid peanut butter but to me that sounds like it would be lacking in the fat that's normally in peanut butter and because of this the ratio is off. I could however be wrong.
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