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Here is a puzzling riddle for you: What would occur should you put ice cream in a 325 diploma oven.
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I, for some purpose, did not absolutely take into account how silly that riddle was earlier than taking up my newest AirFryDay job: frying ice cream sandwiches.
A viral TikTok from person @JimmyTheHib laid out the recipe. (Watch the TikTok here.) In brief: wrap ice cream sandwich items in crescent dough, airfry at 325 levels for six minutes, get pleasure from. I used to be skeptical however . My finish end result was fairly gross.
Here is the way it seemed when achieved by @JimmyTheHib.
This seems to be sort of good, proper?
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That appears superb, proper? And truthfully the joy from @JimmyTheHib helped persuade me to make the recipe. They have been so excited that it made me want to attempt it. What is the worst that would occur?
You may make one thing actually gross, it seems.
However anyway, first issues first, I ran out to the grocery retailer and bought crescent dough and ice cream sandwiches. Per the viral TikTok’s directions, I prepped the whole lot earlier than eradicating the ice cream from the freezer. This is able to, in concept, depart extra of the ice cream intact by means of the cooking course of. Extra on that later.
So, I rolled the dough out, per the TikTok, making it fairly skinny in an effort to completely prepare dinner the dough in simply six minutes. Here is what that seemed like on my reducing board, which i dusted in flour to maintain the dough from sticking.
There’s the dough.
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From there, I eliminated the ice cream sandwiches from the freezer, broke them into appropriately sized items, then folded them up tightly. This was vital, in keeping with the TikTok recipe. If there have been holes, or holes fashioned within the cooking course of, you then risked leakage. Clearly that may be dangerous.
The air fried ice cream prepped for folding.
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The absolutely prepped ice-cream-sandwich-dough-ball-things have been then dropped right into a preheated 325 diploma air fryer. Per the TikTok, they’d be able to eat in six minutes.
Folded and able to airfry.
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The end result was…I’ve to be sincere right here: The end result was trash. Rubbish. Gross.
At first look they little fried ice cream pockets seemed superb, flippantly browned and risen. There was a small leak in a single, however nothing wild. They seemed even higher dusted with powdered sugar.
Issues look superb, right here. They weren’t.
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Mmmmm, sugar.
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Issues started to go awry after I minimize the primary pocket open and inspected its element components. The ice cream was principally melted and the dough was severely undercooked, bordering on uncooked, at its innermost components. And that is smart, contemplating Pillsbury recommends cooking its crescent rolls at 375 levels for 11 to 13 minutes.
Additional, with a view to securely enclose the ice cream, you could have spots with two skinny layers of crescent dough folded over each other. It is a idiot’s errand to attempt to prepare dinner that in six minutes. However should you blasted the air fryer any longer, or at the next temp, it appears seemingly you’d have soup contained in the dough.
Here’s a cross part shot of my creation. To see the uncooked dough, take a look at the spot the place the 2 halves stay linked.
Robust to inform however that dough is sort of uncooked in spots.
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I took an enormous ol’ chew, hoping for the perfect. Principally it was melty ice cream, heat chocolate, and undercooked, gummy dough. My spouse took a chew of 1, too, and we checked out one another and grimaced.
The dough was fairly uncooked, man, I am undecided what else to say. That is not tasty.
Now, maybe @JimmyTheHib from TikTok wrapped his sandwiches higher. I suppose should you may get a decent seal with super-thin dough whereas by no means folding the dough over itself, you then may get a completely cooked product. And, who is aware of, perhaps I messed it up. I do prepare dinner fairly a bit, and I’m a great house prepare dinner, however I’m not an avid baker. This verged into baking, so once more, perhaps @JimmyTheHib was simply higher at making the recipe.
However my end result was, upon reducing up all 4 dough balls, rubbish. Melty, undercooked rubbish. And, normally, I’ll eat something. Pizza neglected in a single day? Positive. Gasoline station meals of questionable origin? Lunchtime. Offal? I might have an terrible time saying no to that! However not this stuff. They only weren’t cooked and the ice cream was both melty or room temp.
No
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One other concern: I simply do not see the purpose of those, even when completely cooked. The soiled secret about crescent dough is it is sort of meh. It is one thing you make on Friendsgiving to fill stomachs. Finest forged situation with this recipe, you have received saccharine bread wrapped round round an ice cream sandwich.
Have you learnt what’s actually nice by itself? An ice cream fucking sandwich. Refreshing ice cream inside a skinny layer of chewy chocolate cake? Humanity did it, depart it alone, we don’t want extra.
Fortunately, I had additional ice cream sandwiches from this entire course of. I loved one, by itself, over a graveyard of raw pastry.
Some issues don’t must be improved.
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