Caramelizing apricots for apricot ice cream

This is for roasted peaches, but I imagine it would work just fine with apricots: http://chezus.com/2012/07/29/roasted-peach-buttermilk-ice-cream/

I have made honey roasted apricots to turn into a sorbet and it was fantastic so I imagine that the same method would work well for ice cream too.

I do think roasting the apricots and pureeing them with a simple syrup would work really well, if you still have any desire to use the DL recipe.

Oh! Thanks for that. I also found this one, so now I'm conflicted :). http://www.thekitchn.com/roasted-apricot-ice-cream-with-59463

Hi jocelyng -- I posted a roasted peach ice cream last year that should work really well for apricots. The mint is completely optional. Hope this helps! http://food52.com/recipes/18102-roasted-peach-mint-ice-cream

Hmm..that's a good point. Maybe I should see if I can find a recipe that uses roasted apricots. Would make my life easier!

I adore any ice cream from David Lebovitz, I looked at the recipe for apricot ice cream and although caramelizing in the oven sounds delicious he calls for the apricots to be pureed along with the cooking liquid, if you caramelize in the oven you would not have that liquid which I think would be crucial to the recipe. I don't know if this would work but you could caramelize in the oven, make a simple syrup with the sugar and water and puree the apricots with the simple syrup. You would probably have to reduce the amount of sugar a little also. I do agree that oven roasting the apricots would intensify the flavor. You could even reduce apricot nectar and use instead of water