Make a goat cheese cream: thoroughly combine 4 T. of the heavy cream with the goat cheese, half of the granulated sugar, and the corn syrup.
To make the ice cream. Prepare an ice water bath. Bring the remaining cream and milk to a boil. Whisk together the egg yolks with the remaining sugar. Slowly pour in 2 tsp. of the hot cream to temper the egg mixture. Then, pour the egg mixture into the cream-milk mixture and continue to cook for 2-3 minutes, or until the mixture coats the back of a spoon.
Add the goat cheese cream into the mixture and whisk until smooth. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve and chill over the ice water bath.
Freeze in an ice cream machine. Keep frozen until ready to serve.
Ingredients
4 cups Nature's Best Dairy® Cream, Heavy
1 cup Nature's Best Dairy® Milk, Whole
8 ea Nature's Best Dairy® Egg(s), yolks only
1/2 cup West Creek® sugar
6 tbsp West Creek® corn syrup
8 oz Nature's Best Dairy® Cheese, Goat, log
Spicy Fig Sauce
Directions
Cook the sugar in a heavy-bottomed sauté pan over medium heat for 3 minutes, or until golden brown. Add the orange juice and bring to a boil. Add the figs, star anise, and peppercorns, bring to a boil, and cook for 3 minutes.
Remove from the heat and strain through a fine mesh sieve, pushing on the solids to remove some of the liquid.
