{"id":30650,"date":"2022-02-06T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thatrecipe.com\/blog\/?p=30650"},"modified":"2025-12-22T15:25:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T23:25:01","slug":"ladyfinger-ice-cream-cake-temple-de-glace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thatrecipe.com\/ladyfinger-ice-cream-cake-temple-de-glace\/","title":{"rendered":"Ladyfinger Ice Cream Cake: Julia Child's Temple de Glac\u00e9 Martiniquaise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Ladyfinger Ice Cream Cake is a spectacular frozen dessert made with just a few simple ingredients in about 10 minutes. The hardest part is waiting for it to freeze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One Christmas Eve a long long time ago, my mother made this delicious ice cream cake with rum and chocolate. Recently, I wanted to recreate it and my mother knew just what I was talking about since she responded \"Oh, Julia Child!\" <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently one Saturday afternoon, during her cooking show time, she saw Julia Child make this on her PBS Show The French Chef and wrote down the recipe. Unfortunately, she didn't keep it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Off to Amazon I went to find The French Chef Cookbook<\/a> so I could make my own Temple de Glac\u00e9 a la Martiniquaise (Mold of Ice Cream with Rum and Chocolate). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cookbook contains all of the recipes from the original show, and I have used it to make quite a few other recipes such as croissants<\/a>, cheese puffs<\/a> and almond orange crepes<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What can I use instead of Rum?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The recipe calls for \u00bc cup of rum, which is split over 6-8 servings, so there is about 2 teaspoons of rum per serving. Not a lot, but it really isn't necessary for the recipe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you want the rum flavor without alcohol, use a tablespoon of rum flavoring with no alcohol added. Check the label, most rum flavor extracts are made with alcohol.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Or you can use what I did... coffee syrup. I went with French Vanilla<\/a> because... you guessed it... that's what was in the house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mix and Match Ladyfinger Ice Cream Cake<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I kept mine vanilla and chocolate which was fabulous! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But, this is such a simple dish to mix and match ice cream and soaking liquid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n