(playful music)
- Greetings, my beautiful lovelies.
It's Emmy.
How are you?
It's great to see you.
Today, I'm going to be making
a little ice cream treat
that has become a series now.
I've been making ice cream
that look like something else,
but in reality, they are ice cream.
And today I'm going to be
making a bake potato version.
So this dessert hails from Idaho,
a state located in the
Western part of the U.S.
known for their great potatoes,
specifically their russet or
baked potato-style potatoes.
And this ice cream treat
looks like a baked potato
complete with the sour
cream and onions on top,
but in actuality, it's ice cream.
So you can find this
treat in Boise, Idaho,
which is the capital of Idaho,
at the Westside Drive-In
also at the state and local fairs.
But since we have Corona, we
won't be going to our fairs.
So I'm gonna show you how
you can make it at home.
So we're going to need a
pint of vanilla ice cream.
This happens to be dairy-free.
I find sometimes ice
cream gives me trouble
if I don't take a digestive enzyme.
So today, we're doing dairy-free.
And now we're just gonna
place it on the cling film.
And then we're going to wrap
it and then use our hands
to kind of shape it into
the shape of a baked potato.
Just like that.
Super easy, right?
And take some aluminum foil.
(foil crinkling)
(Emmy chuckles)
Look, it already looks
like a baked potato.
Isn't that great?
We added a little bit of foil.
It gives it a little bit more stability
and also we're going to use
it when we present it later.
And now we're going to
place this in the freezer
and we want this to set up nice and hard.
So while we're waiting for
the ice cream to firm up,
we're gonna whip up some whipped cream.
Got some heavy cream here.
You can certainly use
the stuff in a spray can
if you like.
But I want mine to really look
like a dollop of sour cream.
So I'm going to go for the real deal.
Boop.
I plugged it in, lovelies.
Did you see that?
It was plugged in.
(machine buzzing)
Splash of vanilla.
And if you'd like to
sweeten this, you can,
just add some powdered sugar.
There we have it lickety-split.
Whipped cream.
So for our green onions,
we're gonna use some chopped nuts here.
And we're gonna add a
little bit of food coloring.
This is a new bottle.
I needed this when I made my island cake
and I didn't have it.
So I had to order some
because I didn't want to be
without green food coloring
and I really want this to be,
oh, thank you.
Sometimes these, like
easy lift open things
are not that easy.
Have you noticed that?
Drives me crazy.
Okay.
Don't get food dye all
over your fingers, please.
Thank you.
Sound like I'm speaking to my children,
but I'm actually just speaking to myself.
Okay, we're gonna add some
food coloring to that.
This is just paste green food coloring.
And we're going to mix that
up until it turns green
and it's not turning green.
So we're gonna add more.
Let's use some liquid
food coloring as well.
Let's see if that helps us with our nuts.
Oh yeah.
I know these don't look like green onions,
but we need some like green garnish on top
and nuts and ice cream,
classic combination.
We also need a pat of butter.
So I'm gonna use real butter
because a baked potato
looks really stinking cute
when it has a square Pat of butter.
You could go ahead and make
this out of white chocolate
if you wanted out of fondant,
but I'm just going to use real butter
and I'm not gonna actually eat it.
I just want it to look
like a baked potato.
Now, here is a potato that I
put in the freezer earlier,
and I'm gonna remove the foil.
We are going to take cocoa
powder and dust this.
Just liberally, dust this
with the cocoa powder.
Make sure we get all of the
sides, which is kind of tricky.
Make sure we get it all over the ends.
Now we're going to put the potato back
into its foil jacket.
There.
Look at that.
Okay, now we're gonna
slice the potato open.
Just like you would a baked potato.
(Emmy laughs)
That is amazing!
It looks so good.
Open the potato up.
Look, it looks so much
like a potato inside.
(Emmy claps)
Now we're gonna add our sour cream,
which is actually just whipped cream.
Dollop it right in there.
Oh my gosh, this looks amazing.
Then we're gonna add our nuts.
And a pat of butter right in there.
Alrighty, my lovelies look at the potato!
Didn't it turn out great?
So stinking cute.
It's the cocoa powder that really does it.
And then when you cut it in half
and it reveals the
vanilla ice cream inside,
the texture looks just
like a baked potato.
It's great.
It kind of cracks and it
looks, it looks amazing.
It looks so, so great
and super, super easy!
I almost forgot to mention
that Sandra Lee did this
on her Semi-Homemade
show on the Food Network
years and years and years ago.
She shaped her potato
a little bit different,
but she made this as well.
So if Sandra Lee can make it,
you can definitely make
it at home as well.
Okay, I'm gonna eat the
skin and all, here we go.
Oh, got to get some nuts too.
Alrighty, here we go.
Itadakimasu!
(slide whistle descends)
Typical.
(Emmy chuckles)
Man!
You think I'd be able
to eat ice cream neatly
at this point in my life.
Nope.
Delicious!
Absolutely scrumdiddlyumptious.
It's so funny, 'cause you look
at it and you're like potato
and you eat it, and you're
like, no, ice cream.
So stinking good.
You've got a little bit of
cocoa powder on the outside,
which gives it a little
bit of cocoa flavor,
but mostly it's vanilla.
I said I was avoiding dairy,
but here I am eating whipped
cream and it is lovely.
Mm mm mm, mm, mm, mm, mm.
Then it has such a beautiful texture too.
It's sort of in between
the textures of soft serve
and hard ice cream.
It has the perfect texture.
Look at that.
See?
It's ice cream.
It's not potato.
And I've gotta have some
nuts because I love peanuts,
vanilla ice cream and
chocolate syrup together.
My favorite.
It's right up there with
mint chocolate chip.
In fact, it at times is better
than mint chocolate chip.
I know I said it.
Sacrilegious.
Mm!
So, so, good.
My kids are gonna love this.
Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm!
So there you have it, my lovelies.
A little bit of the state fair at home.
If you would like to see
more state fair recipes,
let me know down in the comments below.
I have a couple ideas based on the things
that I love to eat at fairs.
And I'll see what I can do.
Alrighty, my beautiful lovelies.
Thanks as always for joining me.
I hope you enjoyed that one.
I hope you learned something.
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Toodaloo, take care.
Bye!
(playful music)
♪ Baked potato baked potato ♪
Oh my gosh.
That was a Wiggles song.
I am such a parent. (chuckles)
Definitely a brain freeze-inducing vibe.
