Category: Dessert
Ice-Planets - TastyPlanner.com
Chef: Joanielspeak
This is the tasty ice cream dessert featured in the TV series Firefly. During one particular episode (The Message), River Tam (a mind reading genius) is attempting to consume a frozen dessert aptly called an Ice-Planet. It basically looked like a ball of ice cream dangling from a string on a stick.
See the blog written about it for more in-depth instructions:
tastyplanner.com/blog/articles/The-Problem-with-Ice-Planets
Ingredients
8- 2.5 in craft sticks (popsicle sticks)
4- 20 in pieces of string
4 dowel rods (notched towards end)
4 smallish (3 inch diameter) bowls with rounded bottoms
4 pints of ice cream
2 ice cream scoops
2 people (1 person = problematic)
Instructions
1. Take 2 of the small bowls and place them in the freezer. While they are freezing, create the internal planet structure. This structure is a simple plus sign made of short Popsicle/craft sticks tied at the middle with string. When tying, be sure to lay the sticks on a flat surface and have the long end of the string coming straight out of the center upwards.
2. Cut a notch towards the top of the 4 rods to prevent the knot from slipping. Tie the end of the string to the rod and you have the skeletal structure of your planet.
3. Pull out the frozen bowls. With a second person, quickly fill the bowls (packing them down) with ice cream until they are slightly domed over the top of the bowl.
4. Have one person hold the “plus” structure perpendicular to the Ice-Planet seam and have the second person slowly bring the 2 Ice-Planet halves together around the sticks.
5. Press the bowls together until you have a nice tight seal. Place ice planet in the freezer and wait 20 min.
6. Take the planet to the sink and slowly pour warm water over the bowls. As you are doing so, gently rotate the bowls in opposite direction, like turning 2 knobs. Remove one side of the mold and then the other.
Done!
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