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Winter is coming…in the form of ice cream.
If you aren’t caught up on the latest season of Game of Thrones – THERE’S GONNA BE BIG OL’ SPOILERS IN THIS POST! You’ve been warned!
The White Walkers have breached the Wall and are heading into Westeros. It’s official. Winter is HERE and very much alive…er…dead?
What the White Walkers and the Night King actually want is STILL a huge mystery – we now know where they come from but not why they are coming.
If you can’t tell, I’m a hard core Game of Thrones theorist – and I believe the White Walkers want more ice cream!
If they’ve heard whispers about how good this ice cream is…well, then I’ll have to apologize for the destruction of the land of the living ’cause this ice cream is AMAZING.
We know from season seven that the Night King, White Walkers and wights are now making their way south of the Wall, bringing all the snow and ice with them – as well as reanimating the dead as they go.
We also know that the Night King – and probably his White Walker cronies – have more than just the wights, giants, and undead polar bears on their side; apparently, they can also create magical ice spears that’ll kill…just about anything.
Now excuse me while I sob into this bowl of ice cream… *cries in Targaryen*
I have a theory that the Night King wants more than just the power of ice dragons and the trifles of men. I believe he is after their life blood – which also happens to make a delicious sauce to drizzle over ice cream.
Honestly, now I’m just even more convinced the Night King is on his way to my house for an ice cream social.
Truthfully, I don’t think we’re in for a happy ending to Game of Thrones – GRRM himself has alluded to one that is more ‘bittersweet’ than anything, leading many to believe the Night King will be the one sitting on the throne at the end of the series.
If only Jon Snow could send a raven to the Night King inviting him down for a bowl of ice cream, they could probably work out a deal to keep the peace of the Seven Kingdoms.
Regardless of who is sitting on the throne at the end of the show, one thing is for sure: this ice cream is slow churned to perfection, which is still faster than GRRM is churning out the final book.
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Buttermilk ice cream with crunchy brown sugar bits and coated in blood-red syrup – inspired by the Night King from Game of Thrones.
Use an immersion blender or whisk to blend the yolks and sugar until pale and frothy. Set aside.
In a small sauce pan over medium heat, combine the heavy cream, vanilla, honey and salt. Simmer until the liquid reaches 175 F. Remove from the heat.
Temper in the egg yolk mixture by slowly adding about 2-3 tablespoons of the heavy cream mixture to the egg yolks and whisking until smooth. Return the tempered mixture to the pan with the rest of the heavy cream mixture.
Return the liquid to 175 F, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and while the liquid is still hot, add the cream cheese, buttermilk and lemon juice. Use the immersion blender or a whisk to blend the liquid until smooth then chill for at least 2-3 hours, until the liquid is no longer warm to the touch.
Meanwhile, in a small bowl, whisk together the brown sugar, melted butter, and flour. Whisk until the brown sugar is crumbly and all of the flour is absorbed.
Separate the crumbles into smaller bowls. Stir the black and blue food coloring into each respective bowl so that the brown sugar crumbles are coated in food coloring. Set aside while you make the rest of the ice cream.
Chop the blue candy melts into small, rough pieces. Set aside.
At this point, the cream mixture should be thick but still very runny. Transfer the chilled cream mix into an ice cream churn. Churn the ice cream until thick and creamy – about 1-2 hours.
Scoop the churned ice cream into a large air tight container. Between scoops, sprinkle in the colored brown sugar crumbles and candy melts. Swirl in additional food coloring, as desired (I used the remaining gel on toothpicks I used to get the gel out of the containers).
Cover the ice cream air tight and let freeze solid – about 8-10 hours.
Just prior to serving, combine the caramel sauce, chocolate sauce and red food coloring to make a 'life blood' sauce. Scoop the ice cream into a chilled bowl and drizzle on the 'life blood' sauce. Enjoy as if Westeros isn't going to be overrun with White Walkers.
Keyword brown sugar, buttermilk, cream cheese, ice cream
The ultimate goal of the legendary White Walkers was the end of every living thing in existence, which they planned to achieve by killing the Three-Eyed Raven and creating an endless winter to eclipse the known world.
White Walkers are humanoid creatures from the HBO television series Game of Thrones, and the George R. R. Martin novel series A Song of Ice and Fire on which it is based. Primarily referred to as the Others in the novels, White Walkers are a supernatural threat to mankind who dwell north of The Wall in Westeros.
The Night King was the first of the White Walkers created by the Children of the Forest, and now leads the others. He has the power to turn human infants into White Walkers, as we saw with Craster's (Robert Pugh) sons who were given as sacrifices to the Night King in return for Crasters' and his brood's safety.
'Wight' is a catch-all term for the reanimated corpses of humans. White Walkers have the ability to turn dead and decomposed bodies into wights. Think of the term as a synonym for zombies. Once brought back as a wight, the former humans are intent upon killing under direction from the White Walkers.
What most people don't know is the White Walkers were inspired by a similar supernatural race in Irish and Scottish mythology — the Aos Si, otherwise known as the Sidhe.
At first The Others might seem to be an obvious elusion to the real world problem of climate change, i.e. a pure evil that all of humanity would have to work together on to defeat. However, because of petty feuds between humans themselves, unity against the problem of climate change/The Others cannot be achieved.
Only the army of the dead seems to contain any women (which makes sense). In fact, there actually was one female White Walker, as legend holds. According to the books' many Old Nan stories, the Night King was once a member of the Night's Watch.
Night King isn't a Stark and it was clearly shown in the show that someone was turned into the first white Walker by children of the forest who . However, Old Nan also says that Night's King could be a member of House Stark, maybe even a brother of Brandon the Breaker.
As for why babies, and not adults, are candidates for transformation into White Walkers, this is likely because infants are easier to mold into whatever the Night King wishes.
It is well explained why the Night King wants to eliminate Bran: he wants to erase humans with all of their knowledge. Bran is the Three-Eyed . To this, Bran tells Sam that the king of the dead wanted 'an endless night'. He said, "He wants to erase this world.
In the final scene of the epic, nearly 90-minute-long "Game of Thrones" season finale, we finally see what has become of Viserion. The Night King killed Viserion in last week's episode of "Game of Thrones" and turned the dragon into a White Walker or wight.
White Walkers are sentient inhuman beings capable of magic and turning dead people into zombies that do their bidding.. The Night King himself has the power to turn humans into White Walkers; the Wildling Craster sacrificed his infant sons to the Night King, who .
The wall is protected so White Walkers can't pass, and they can't swim. It feels like lazy writing that the Dragon is now on their side. In prior seasons, when they pan the wall during the opening credits, the water around the wall is blue. In this last season, the water had started turning White.
Along with dragonglass, Valyrian steel is one of the few known substances that can kill White Walkers, although this property is not widely known, apparently not even to the White Walkers themselves.
Why Didn't He Become A White Walker? Benjen also explains that he would have been turned into a Walker, but the magic was stopped by the Children of the Forest and their own magic. They shoved a dragonglass dagger into his chest which stopped his transformation.
Desperate to protect their lands, the Children created the White Walkers to fight back against the invaders. The Children sacrificed a human, stabbing him through the heart with dragonglass. But the dark ritual backfired, and the victim transformed into the first White Walker, who would become the Night King.
His long-term goal is "an endless night," Bran says. "He wants to erase this world and I am its memory," he explains. As the Three-Eyed Raven, Bran has the ability of greensight, which means he can see events in the past, present, and future through visions. Killing Bran would essentially erase all memory of mankind.
The White Walkers turned Craster's sons into baby White Walkers, revealing their plan to spread their kind throughout Westeros. The White Walker subplot in Game of Thrones was a red herring, diverting attention from the main plot and ultimately wasted in its execution.
After becoming the Night King, he became nothing more than an emotionless killer with his only goal appearing to be to kill all in his path and add to his army, staying true to his nature as the first White Walker and being the ultimate embodiment of death. Despite this, he did display some emotion at times.
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