Almond Coffee ice cream
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Almond and coffee makes for a pleasant and tasty, somewhat adult, flavour combination likely to particularly please (of course) those partial to almonds and coffee :-)
Ingredients
  • 500 ml (about 2½ cup) whole milk
  • 330 ml (about 1.4 cup) sugar or 300 ml (about 1.3 cup) xylitol (NB: parts of the sugar can also be replaced by equal parts of xylitol)
  • 1 gram Agar agar (2 levelled teaspoons ... or less!)
  • 200 ml (about ¾ cup) ground blanched sweet almonds
  • 100 ml (about 0.4 cup) cream
  • 1 tablespoon instant coffee of good quality
Instructions
  1. Add milk, cream, sugar (or xylitol) and the ground sweet almonds in a saucepan and heat until an almost-boil. Then add the Agar agar and whisk.
  2. Bring to a quick boil, then turn down the heat to a simmer for about 2-3 minutes.
  3. Add the coffee, whisk and take off from the heat. Let cool down, possibly even chill.
  4. Once cooled/chilled down, whisk, then churn the ice cream base in your ice cream machine (or still-freeze, using your freezer).
  5. Towards the end of the (machine-)churning, add the cream and let the churning finish.
  6. Once ready, enjoy the ice cream fresh on the spot or store in freezer-safe container (with plastic film and lid over) in the freezer.
Notes
Note that the Agar agar should be added to warm liquid and be brought to a boil in order to properly "activate" its gelling qualities. Also note that you could probably get a very nice stabilising result even with less Agar agar than what is set out in the recipe - if you do not like ice cream bases that settles too firmly, I would suggest trying with only about ½ of the Agar (= slightly more than 1 teaspoon).

Xylitol is slightly sweeter and also more effective than "ordinary" sugar when it comes to keeping an ice cream soft: If you like, you could replace part of the sugar against an equal amount of xylitol. If you replace all sugar, however, you could well reduce the total overall amount of xylitol a bit too.
Recipe by ICE CREAM NATION at https://www.icecreamnation.org/2017/10/almond-coffee-ice-cream/