Black Tea Ice Cream Sundae with Gold Leaf Garnish

Sheri Silver April 04, 2025

Fancy up your next ice cream social with this luxe black tea vanilla ice cream! Start with a quick and simple infusion of heavy cream with black tea leaves and a whole vanilla bean. Then, it's as easy as mixing ingredients together, freezing, and assembling the sundae.

Top with fudge sauce, flecks of edible gold leaf and of course, a maraschino cherry. Enjoy!

Gold Leaf Sundae with Black Tea Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients

2 cups heavy cream
1/4 cup loose black tea leaves
1 vanilla bean, split lengthwise
14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
Edible gold leaf, for serving
Fudge sauce and maraschino cherries, for serving

Procedure

Place the heavy cream in a saucepan and heat over medium-low heat until hot and small bubbles begin to appear at the edges.
Remove from the heat, add the tea leaves and split vanilla bean, and cover.
Let steep for 10 minutes.
Pour the mixture through a strainer into a large bowl, pressing hard on the solids to extract all of the liquid.
Scrape the seeds from the vanilla bean and add to the liquid. Discard the solids.
Place the cream in the fridge and chill until it is cold throughout.
Whip the chilled cream until soft peaks form.
Add the sweetened condensed milk and whip again.
Transfer to a bowl or pan and freeze overnight.
To serve, place a few scoops of ice cream into serving dishes and add bits of gold leaf. Serve with fudge sauce and maraschino cherries.