Homemade Ice Cream

[Magick1]

Does anyone have a really easy, great tasting homemade ice cream recipe?

I have a kitchen aid, kitchen aid has an ice cream "maker" attachment. I have one of these now , but I have never made homemade ice cream.

What with the heat the way it is currently, it sounds excellent!

[lynnzop[$]]

mmmm, that does sound good!

I'm no help in the recipe department, but we have one of the old "crank" ice cream makers. Might be a good thing for kids to do this weekend!!!

[conradd]

Here's a good vanilla ice cream recipe - it's not spur of the moment, since it must be cooked and cooled, but since it contains egg yolks, it really needs to be cooked. I use double the recipe in a one gallon handcrank, but this works fine in a 1 or 2 quart freezer canister.

Ingredients
1 cup whole milk
3 large egg yolks
6 tbsp. sugar (a rounded 1/3 cup measure)
pinch of salt
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pint whipping cream


Preparation
1. Heat milk in a saucepan until bubbles form around the edge.
2. Whisk together yolks, sugar, and salt in a large bowl until thick and pale and starting to increase in volume. Add vanilla and continue whisking until completely combined. Gradually add warm milk in a steady stream, continuing to whisk. Pour into a heavy saucepan and cook over very low heat, stirring constantly until mixture thickens and will coat a spoon. Remove from heat and if the mixture isn't completely smooth, pour through a wire-mesh strainer into a bowl.

3. Let cool in refrigerator at least 4 hours and preferably overnight. Stir in cream.

4. Pour mixture into freezer container of your ice cream maker and freeze, then enjoy.

I have a few recipes for spur of the moment ice cream using canned condensed and/or evaporated milk, but they're not nearly as good as this. Take the time. It's worth it. The mix will keep two days or so in the refrigerator, so you can do a larger batch of the mix, then make ice cream every night, adding fruit or other ingredients to vary the taste. Fresh strawberries are finally coming into season here in Oregon, so I'll be doing that this weekend, and if you whack coffee beans into large chunks and simmer them with the milk, you get a wonderful coffee ice cream (use a really fine mesh strainer with this one). This part is where your imagination comes in.

[Magick1]

Wow, sounds awesome...thanks for the coffee tip, my hubby LOVES coffee anything...including chocolate covered espresso beans!

[mtomm[$]]

1 can sweetened condensed milk
Enough flavored pop (strawberry, creme soda, orange, grape, etc.) to fill the ice cream maker (assuming 2 quarts I think).

Freeze, eat.

[MiracleMax]

My aunt used to make vanilla with Grape Nuts in it that was awesome. I really need to get the recipe from her.

[emeleel]

We've always used two cans of condensed milk for the soda ice cream.

Anyone got a good chocolate ice cream recipe? I'm supposed to bring some to a party this weekend.

[lynnzop[$]]

Use yoo-hoo or whatever that stuff is called.

I've never heard of the soda pop icecream. I have pop. I have condensed milk (does it matter how old it is???). I have an ice cream freezer.

[emeleel]

Soda ice cream is YUMMY! Dh's mom always made it with Grapico, but several years ago we experimented. Root beer is good, and so is fizzy lemonade.

[magenta321]

This looks like a fun learning experience for anyone with kids and no ice cream maker:

http://images.allrecipes.com/site/al...m_in_a_bag.pdf

[jgibson2[$]]

We did this Matthew's last year at Cub Scout Day Camp. It works, and it's fun.

[Magick1]

That does look kind of cool! The preshool might like that for a class time fun day!

[Helen_B[$]]

Wow, this is making me remember trying to make ice cream in the freezer by partially freezing a mix made with Jello and powdered milk, beating it up, and re-freezing it. Guess this ranks right up there with green jello molds with peas and cheese and pimentos. Am I imagining this? Have any of you seen receipes like this (circa the '50s, lol). Omg, didn't the people at the Jello company have anything better to do??

[emeleel]

I did see a recipe yesterday for ice cream with a Jello pudding mix base, but I'm pretty sure powdered milk didn't make an appearance. Ick!

[conradd]

Lots of good information and recipes on the Williams-Sonoma website, including a video on the KitchenAid ice cream attachment.

I'm seriously lusting over the Cuisinart ice cream maker. Ted's birthday is mid-August and it would be a dandy gift for him. And me.

[emeleel]

Here's a yummy chocolate recipe:

4 oz. unsweetened chocolate, chopped
2 cups half-n-half or evaporated milk
1 1/4 cups sugar
2 tbsp. flour
1/4 teaspoon salt
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups heavy cream*
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1/2 cup chopped nuts, optional


In a heavy saucepan, combine the chocolate and the half-n-half. Cook over moderate heat until the chocolate is melted and the whole mixture is smooth. Combine the sugar flour and salt in a little bowl, the gradually whisk them into the chocolate mixture. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat to moderately low and cook, whisking occasionally. in a medium bowl, briefly whisk the eggs. Slowly whisk in half the hot chocolate mixture, then pour it all into the remaining mix in the saucepan. Cook for about 5 minutes until it's thick, smooth and steamy. Remove from the heat and stir in the cream and vanilla. Let cool to room temperature, then chill until cold. Pour into the ice cream freezer and follow the instructions.

*Or, more half-n-half. I accidentally bought more half-n-half instead of heavy whipping cream, and it worked just fine.

[Magick1]

Sorry for the delayed responses. Deb, thank you for that link. I appreciate it very much. It was nice to see the mixer doing it's thing!

I haven't had a chance to use this yet. But, I hope to soon.

Thank you also for the recipes! They all sound great. I have chocolate and feel ready. When I get a chance, I will have to get the half and half and the cream and take a chance!

[conradd]

Why wait?

I did give Ted the Cuisinart ice cream maker for his birthday.



I'm blaming it for the weight gain.

We've used it every weekend and it's wonderful - built in compresser, so we just pour in the mixed ingredients and turn it on. 45 minutes later, we have ice cream.

Another really easy recipe is this:

Pour 2 cups half & half and 1 cup cream into a blender. Add 3/4 cup sugar and a tsp. of vanilla. Blend. Make into ice cream. Eat.

If you have overripe fruit, this is a good way to use it up. I pureed a peach and added it, omitting the vanilla. Delicious. I imagine you could use a 4 oz jar of Gerber's baby food too.

[Magick1]

SWEET recipe. I like the ones you don't have to cook, cool, cook something else, cool and then mix 'em all together!