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Alas, I did participate in the Daring Bakers challenge this month, but my pictures were corrupted so I can’t technically prove it. Sigh.

I’ll just tell you about it.

The February 2009 challenge is hosted by Wendy of WMPE’s blog and Dharm of Dad ~ Baker & Chef.
We have chosen a Chocolate Valentino cake by Chef Wan; a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Dharm and a Vanilla Ice Cream recipe from Wendy as the challenge.

The challenge was a flourless chocolate cake with a homemade ice cream.  I originally had planned to do a white chocolate ice cream, but after eating butterscotch sauce with dessert one night, decided to do a butterscotch ice cream.

I used the recipe from David Lebovitz’s “The Perfect Scoop” book, which was pretty easy.  I was concerned about my custard, but my ice cream came out rich and buttery and sweet and creamy - delicious.

The cake, on the other hand, I felt was just a wee bit rich.  I could only manage a few bites before feeling sick of it.  It was very fudgy, rich, chocolately.  It was easy to make, but I’m not a fan of melting chocolate so
I got annoyed at times. I used Trader Joe’s chocolate, a mix between milk and dark because I’m not a fan of dark chocolate.

I was going to make a butterscotch sauce to drizzle over it, but really, it was unnecessary.  Too sweet as it is.

I recommend making the cake, though - it’s really a great easy cake to impress someone.  This was also the first time I used the ice cream maker I got for Christmas, so that was fun.  I’m hoping we have more ice cream recipes!