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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