Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Frozen Oreo Fudge Squares


Frozen Oreo Fudge Squares



Last week I posted My Oreo Cookie Cake for the 100th birthday of the iconic Oreo.  Upon seeing the post, my daughter, Stephanie, told me that I needed to also post the ‘other one’.  I thought I had lost it, when I mistakenly reformatted a hard drive that I had removed from a computer that we were using as a home server.  We had stopped using that computer as a server about two years ago.  Prior to taking the computer out of service I did a visual compare of all of the directories to make sure that I had moved all of the files to whichever computer accessed the directory most.  Then I removed the computer from the network, and a few months after that I pulled the hard drives out, it had two in it, and took the computer to Goodwill for recycling. I marked the hard drives with a label, to identify which computer it was from just in case I needed to access any of the information.  Well a few months back my computer was running short on drive space, so I went to the hard drive grave box and found one that would be the right size and type for my computer.  I plugged the new ‘old drive’ in looked at the contents, doubled checked everything before reformatting, everything looked like it had been transferred.  After all, it has been almost two year since I had pulled the computer out of service.  

Then I set out on this blog to start posting our recipes,  I set up the blog, made my ‘ First Day Post’, OK this is not so hard, after all we have 100’s of recipes with pictures on the computer…all I have to do is decide which ones I want to post.  Well about three days later, I had some time on my hands. I thought that I would sit down and schedule a week’s worth of posts to publish from my vast array of digital files.   I went to access the recipe directory and it was empty. After doing multiple searches for recipes that I knew that I had stored complete with pictures, it occurred to me ‘It Was On The Drive I Reformatted’.  I looked at the recipe boxes and the recipe binders that we have and really did not want to start sorting through that after realizing what I had done. Therefore, that is what leads to the third post ‘Everyone Needs at Least one Cast iron Skillet’, I was determined to post something, there were the cast iron skillets.  They were saying me…me. talk about me. It is as if they were saying I have been true and trustworthy for hundreds of years but now I am neglected, forgotten, replaced by of all things Teflon.   Now they keep tell me that I have not completed the story..tell more tell more, not tonight not tonight, we will save that for another day. 

Oh the recipe.



Frozen Oreo Fudge Squares


30 Oreo sandwich Cookies whole
14 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 gallon chocolate ice cream softened, or use another flavor such as chocolate almond
3 oz unsweetened Baking Chocolate Squares
2 cups of confectioners’ sugar
4 pasteurized eggs separated.  If you cannot find pasteurized eggs, see the instructions below on how to pasteurizing your own eggs.

Making the Oreo Pie Shell

In the food processor with the cutting blade process, the Oreos into fine crumbs add 6 tablespoons of melted butter and mix until combined.
Press 2 cups of the Oreo crumbs into a 13x9 baking dish.
Put in the freezer for approximately 45 minutes to firm.
While the Oreo shell is firming in the freezer now would be a good time to take the ice cream out of the freezer to soften, and to pasteurize the eggs.

Pasteurizing your own eggs

For years, I made this recipe without pasteurizing the eggs and have never had anyone get sick.  However, after the salmonella outbreak that was linked to unprocessed eggs I have never made another recipe with raw eggs.   
To pasteurize eggs is really very simple. All that is required is to get the core temperature of the egg above 140°f for two to three minutes.
Here is how to pasteurize eggs.  Fill a saucepan ¾ full with cold water, place the egg in the water, and heat over medium heat.  You must watch the temperature very close.  It has to go above 140° for 3 to 5 minutes but it cannot go above 150°.  If it goes above 150°, the eggs will start to cook.  If the eggs do not get above 140°, the temperature will not be hot enough to kill the bacteria. Remove from the heat and allow to cool for a few minutes.

Spreading the Ice cream

Spread the softened ice cream over the Oreo crumb shell.  Put back into the freezer to firm.

Making the Chocolate Topping

In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and 8 tablespoons of butter, or over low heat in a saucepan.  After the chocolate is fully melted, remove from heat and slowly add the confectioners’ sugar stirring and incorporating while adding.  Whisk in the egg yolks. 
In a separate bowl, whisk the egg whites until the form stiff peaks. Gently fold the chocolate into the egg whites.  Spread over the ice cream, and top with Oreo crumbs. 
Return to the freezer to set, cover with plastic wrap, or foil after the topping has firmed.

Cut into squares and serve. 

Clifton






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