Copycat El Torito Deep Fried Ice Cream

Total Time: 2 hrs 15 mins Preparation Time: 2 hrs Cook Time: 15 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 20 ounces chocolate chip ice cream
• 2 cups flaked four-grain cereal, crushed
• 1 1/2 tablespoons sugar
• 3 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon water
• 4 flour tortillas
• oil
• cinnamon, mixed with
• sugar
• whipped cream
• 4 maraschino cherries

Recipe

• 1 form ice cream into 4 balls. place in baking pan andfreeze solid, 2 hours or longer.
• 2 mix cereal, sugar and cinnamon. divide equally between 2 pie plates or other.
• 3 shallow containers.
• 4 beat eggs with water.
• 5 roll each ice cream ball in cereal mixture and press.
• 6 coating into ice cream. dip coated ball in egg wash, then roll in second container of cereal mixture. again press coating onto ice cream.
• 7 freeze coated ice cream balls solid, 4 to 6 hours.
• 8 shape each tortilla into hourglass form (with narrow waist) by cutting off curved slice from 2 opposite sides. one end will serve as base for ice cream. other end will be decorative fan.
• 9 heat oil in wok or large deep−fryer. place tortilla between 2 ladles or large spoons of different sizes(smaller ladle on top). place tortilla so that base end is cupped in larger ladle to form basket, with back of.
• 10 upper fan supported by handle of larger ladle.
• 11 deep−fry until crisp.
• 12 drain and sprinkle with cinnamon−sugar. set aside.
• 13 deep−fry frozen coated ice cream balls 30 to 45 seconds.
• 14 place each fried tortilla in large−stemmed.
• 15 glass, with fan part of tortilla standing vertically above glass. set fried ice cream ball in base of tortilla.
• 16 top with dollop of whipped cream and decorate with cherry.