Caramel ice cream
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Caramel ice cream is an ice cream flavored with caramel. It is typically prepared using a base made from cream and eggs, to which caramel is added, often in the form of salted caramel.[1][2] Several variants of caramel ice cream exist. In the Río de la Plata region, ice cream made with dulce de leche (a sweet caramelized milk spread) is particularly popular.[3] Other variants include caramel ice cream served with nuts or with pieces of chocolate.
Caramel is also frequently combined with other ice cream flavors, most commonly as a caramel sauce or as solid inclusions. A well-known example is New Zealand hokey pokey ice cream, which consists of vanilla ice cream containing pieces of honeycomb toffee.[4]
One of the earliest known references to caramel ice cream dates to 1747 and appears in the English cookbook The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy by Hannah Glasse.[5] A recipe for caramel ice cream is also included in the Czech cookbook of Magdalena Dobromila Rettigová from 1826.[6] Salted caramel ice cream gained popularity at the end of the 20th century.[4]
