Dime Bar Ice Cream

Our answer

Dime bars (now labelled as Daim bars) are bars of crisp almond caramel that are coated with milk chocolate. In the Dime Bar Ice Cream (from NIGELLA SUMMER) Nigella grinds the bars to fine rubble in a food processor (or you could do this by putting the bars in a resealable bag and pounding them with a rolling pin) and then mixes them into a vanilla ice cream base.

Daim bars are usually 28g (1 ounce). The recipe was written in 2002 and as far as we can ascertain the weight of a Diam bar has not changed significantly over that time, so for the equivalent of four bars you would need a weight of 112g (4 ounces). However bear in mind that the mini bars have a greater ratio of chocolate to candy, so the ice cream will be slightly more chocolate favoured. Diam bars can be found in larger stores and also in the food section at Ikea. In the US they can be more difficult to find, but the closest alternative would be a Skor bar.