Hi guys, I'm Laura Vitale, today I'm going to show you something that's going to take
absolutely no time, but this is what's going to kick up your ice cream game quite a few
notches this summer!
I'm going to show you how to make magic shell, also known as dip top, or a hard shell - it
doesn't matter, it's basically that chocolate sauce that as soon as it hits that cold ice
cream it hardens and it's so much fun, it's so fabulous, it takes just two ingredients,
you can use this sauce to doctor up some store bought ice cream, to have some fun with your
kids, some fun with your thirty something year old husband because he loves magic shell,
and I do too.
But it's really fun and it's really easy and I'm just excited to share it with you and
like I said it's going to take you two minutes but it's awesome.
You'll need two ingredients.
Semisweet chocolate chips.
and some coconut oil.
This is not candle wax, Joe was asking why there was candle wax in my bowl, it's coconut
oil and when coconut oil isn't heated it solidifies, so once we introduce it to some heat it is
going to melt and become luxurious and beautiful and perfect and wonderful.
Now, I have tried making this with some milk chocolate and I've also tried making this
with some bittersweet chocolate.
I felt like the milk chocolate was just really, really sweet, and the bittersweet chocolate
was a little bit too bitter.
So I find that semisweet chocolate is just like perfect for this so that's why I'm excited
to share it with you.
Like I said, two ingredients and that's it.
You can do this one of a few ways, you can take this mixture, put it in a large microwave
safe bowl and pop it in the microwave until everything is melted, or you can do this over
a double boiler, you can put a little bit of water in the bottom of a pan, but a heat
safe bowl on top and heat it up until everything melts.
Or, if you're a daredevil like me, I'm going to go ahead and put everything into a saucepan
and cook it over low heat, you don't want to do it over medium, you don't want to do
it over high heat because it will scorch and you want to make sure that does not happen.
So I've got my coconut oil, my chocolate chips over my stovetop as low as it will go and
I am just going to cook this until everything melts together, and that is it, I can't wait
to show you what it is like when we pour it over our ice cream.
Ay oh!
That looks perfect, I've got my ice cream in my little cups, I actually served these
up and popped these in the freezer just so that they would stay nice and cool, then you
take a small ladle.
Hold on let me move this guy because I can just foresee that flying all over the place.
And then you take your sauce and you just pour over the top and in a few seconds you'll
see what happens, just give it time and if you think to yourself 'oh that's not working'
just give it a few seconds and then you'll see the magic.
And then you can top it with some nuts or whatever your heart desires but look, you
see that?
And then you do that and that is your magic shell.
Dip top.
Whatever you call it, I don't really care it's just awesome!
It's cold though!
Really cold.
That is Summer on the Jersey boardwalk with an ice cream cone in your hand, dip top, whatever
you want to call it just dripping over the side and hardening as you're eating it.
It is perfection and I hope that you make this this weekend, I know it is not a recipe
but I want ed to share it with you because it's so fun, it's so fun to do it with a group
of people, you can do it on ice cream cones, you can do it individually, you can do whatever
your heart desires it's just so fun.
Go make it this weekend, I will have the recipe written down on LauraintheKitchen.com for
reference.
Look at this.
It's just so fun!
Hope you've enjoyed spending time with me, I'll see you next time!
I'm going to eat all the magic shell!