Ingredients:

• 1250 gr/2500 ml of simple, no filling, Vanilla Ice Cream

• 125 gr of baked and blanched Pistachios – sliced lengthwise

• 125 gr of baked and blanched Almonds – sliced lengthwise

• 20 gr of edible Pink Rose Petals

Instructions:

1. 1. 1. Take the ice cream box out of the freezer and leave it out at room temperature until it softens up a bit so that you can mix in the nuts.

1. 1. 2. In the meantime take advantage and slice your nuts lengthwise. It will take you a little bit of time taking into consideration the fact that you have to be careful because they can splash here and there while you cut into them… Save about 25 gr of the pistachios and about 25 gr of the almonds to use as garnishing later on! You should have about 50 gr of nuts set aside for garnishing…

1. 1. 3. Once your ice cream is ready, pour your nuts into it and stir everything really well.

1. 1. 4. After everything is well combined, line a pound cake tin with some plastic foil and pour into the tin your ice cream mixture. Cover it really well with the plastic foil / cling film, so that no air gets in and pop it back in the freezer until it firms up (at least 2 – 3 hours). Even overnight might be a good ideea and if you are preparing this for a party you could also make it a few days ahead.

1. 1. 5. When you want to serve your dessert, just take it out of the freezer and have your nuts and petals ready. Take it out of the tin and unwrap it from the plastic foil, placing it on a nice long platter.

1. 1. 6. Top it with the rose petals and the remaining sliced nuts. Serve it to your guests and enjoy all the uuuu’s and wooooow’s you’ll get! They don’t have to know that you bought the ice cream… We won’t tell! 😉

Prep time for the vanilla  ice creams with nuts : 20 min

Total time: 3h – 3h 5 min

Notes for enjpying the vanilla ice cream with nuts:

• If you want to store your mixed ice cream you can do so and it will last in your freezer for the same amount of time it is written on the original box that the ice cream with nuts came in.

• You can also prepare this without the rose petals if it’s hard for you to find them where you live.

• Here is the video in which Ariana is preparing this recipe of the ice cream with nuts  (the ingredient that she is adding and we didn’t is the rose petal infused water, but it is quite hard to find it around here so we decided to leave it out – if you wish to add it though, the quantity would be 2 tablespoons of rose water):

Tip: You can use any other kind of ice cream for this recipe. Just pick your favourite flavour!

Enjoy! 🙂

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