Mud City Stout Chocolate Ice Cream recipe

Ingredients
1 vanilla pod
250ml double cream
250ml Sadler's Ales Mud City Stout
175g granulated sugar
1½ tsp cocoa powder
4 egg yolks

Serves 2

Preparation
1. To make the ice cream, halve the vanilla pod lengthways and scrape out the seeds. Add to a pan with the double cream, stout and sugar and bring up to the boil.

2. In a large bowl, mix together the cocoa powder and the egg yolks, blending thoroughly. Add a small amount of the stout cream to the cocoa powder and egg yolks, whisking quickly to temper the eggs. Add the egg mixture to the pan and cook until thick, whisking constantly. Cool the mixture, and then process in an ice cream maker.