Remember ice cream from the '90s that all the ice cream shops were offering in summer? Those rich and colorful cups decorated with umbrellas, fruit syrups, and chocolate icing? Today we’re taking you back in time with this legendary Spaghetti ice cream. It looks like pasta but it's not and is great in giving you joy!
Spaghetti ice cream is nothing more than cream flavor ice cream passed through a potato masher. Cream ice cream flavor is the ideal choice because it has the same color as durum wheat pasta, but you can also choose fiordilatte if you prefer.
Then there’s the sauce, that is a coulis prepared with strawberries or raspberries. To speed up the process you can also use a ready-made red fruit syrup or a compote, but a sauce prepared in the moment makes all the difference.
Finally, there’s the Parmesan cheese, because what is a tomato pasta dish without Parmesan cheese? What sweet ingredient is the closest to looking like grated Parmesan cheese? There are two actually: coconut flour and grated white chocolate.
To complete your throwback to the 90s, add a basil leaf and you're ready to taste the vintage dessert!
How to make Spaghetti ice cream
The most important thing to do is to leave the potato masher in the freezer for a few hours because it has to be very cold. The ice-cream will pass through the potato masher and come out in the form of perfect spaghetti ice cream, impeccably separated from each other.
You can also do it with the tool used to make passatelli, but you'll get tonnarelli more than spaghetti!
The ice cream also has to be very cold, otherwise, it will melt in an instant and lose its shape.
Spaghetti should be served in single portions, directly in small bowls, just like a plate of pasta with tomato sauce.
Fake tomato sauce
You can prepare the sauce with your choice of red fruits. Strawberries, currants, raspberries, or even all together are fine.
Simply blend and cook them in a pan with a little sugar until they almost become a jam. However, the consistency needs to be quite liquidy, even with small pieces of fruit so there’s no need to sieve it.
The coulis should then be added to the spaghetti once it’s cold, so you need to prepare it well in advance and keep it in the fridge for a couple of days.
Grated Parmesan cheese... sweet
Coconut rapé, or coconut flour, is really very similar to grated Parmesan cheese in appearance and texture so you really won't notice the difference. Alternatively, you can use grated white chocolate that goes very well with cream ice cream flavor.
Keep it in the fridge before grating because it needs to be very cold, otherwise, it will melt. Chocolate chips are also good but avoid chocolate curls.
Sprinkle the "parmesan" on top of the spaghetti with tomato sauce and complete with a fresh basil leaf.
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