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Easy Homemade Ice Cream Recipes

In the summer, everyone loves to dig into a big bowl of delicious ice cream! Sometimes though, ice cream is often loaded with preservatives and artificial flavors. Wouldn't be nice to actually taste the ice cream itself?

One way to actually enjoy ice cream in its purest form is to make it yourself. It is actually quite easy to make your own ice cream. Purchase an ice cream maker and in no time at all you'll be making homemade ice cream for everyone to enjoy.

Here are a few recipes and tips for making your own batch of homemade ice cream.

Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients:

  • 2 cups heavy cream, well chilled
  • 1 cup whole milk, well chilled
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 1 ½ teaspoons vanilla extract
Directions:
Combine all ingredients in a bowl, stirring until the sugar is dissolved. Transfer into an ice cream maker and process according to the manufacturer's instructions.

To turn that vanilla ice cream into mint chocolate chip ice cream, replace the vanilla extract with ½ teaspoon mint extract. Sprinkle in a ½ cup small or chopped chocolate chips during the last 5-10 minutes into the ice cream maker.

Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe
This chocolate ice cream recipe is actually a low-fat recipe. This chocolate ice cream recipe is my favorite and is taken from Eatingwell.com.

Ingredients:
  • 1 ½ teaspoons unflavored gelatin
  • 1 tablespoon water
  • 3 cups low-fat milk, divided
  • 3 large egg yolks
  • 1 14-ounce can nonfat sweetened condensed milk
  • ¼ cup unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 2 ounces chopped unsweetened chocolate

Directions:
Sprinkle gelatin over water in a small bowl; let stand, stirring once or twice, while you make the base for the ice cream. Pour 1 1/2 cups milk into a large saucepan. Add cocoa and chocolate to the milk. Heat the milk mixture over medium heat until steaming. Whisk egg yolks and condensed milk in a medium bowl. Gradually pour in the hot milk, whisking until blended. Return the mixture to the pan and cook over medium heat, stirring with a wooden spoon, until the back of the spoon is lightly coated, 3 to 5 minutes. Do not bring to a boil or the custard will curdle. Strain the custard through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean large bowl. Add the softened gelatin and whisk until melted. Whisk in the remaining 1 1/2 cups milk. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least 2 hours. Whisk the ice cream mixture and pour into the canister of an ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions. If necessary, place the ice cream in the freezer to firm up before serving.

Peach Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients:
  • About 5 peaches, pureed (equals to about 1 ½ - 2 cups of pureed peaches)
  • ¾ cup sugar
  • 1 ½ cups half and half cream
  • ½ teaspoon almond extract

Directions:
Puree peaches in a food processor. I recommend pealing the peaches first, however this is not a necessary step. Add the remaining ingredients into the blender and mix together until smooth. Chill mixture until very cold, usually it takes about two hours. Transfer into an ice cream maker and process according to the manufacturer's instructions. If the ice cream is too soft, go ahead and let the ice cream sit your ice cream maker for an additional hour.

About the author: Ann Martin is a writer for dinnerware center, an online tableware store. Dinnerware Center specializes in tableware sets from major brands, including the Noritake Colorwave Graphite and Noritake Colorwave Blue dinnerware sets.

Posted: Monday 23rd August 2010, 2:28 AM




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