Does Anyone Make Homemade Ice Cream?

[Zandy595]

We just bought a Cuisinart Soft Serve Ice-Cream Maker/Dispenser and I need some good recipes. The vanilla recipe that came with the machine made this odd concoction that was more like frozen whipped cream than ice cream. It left a fatty coating on the roof of our mouths. YUCK

Anyone have a recipe they would like to share? I'd really like to try making frozen custard too.

 

[Wishing on a star]

I am not sure of your recipe, but real cream IS very fatty!!!
If you use too much cream or heavy cream, you will get ice cream butter.

We used to make homemade ice cream occasionally, years and years ago.
So, I am not expert.
But, double check your recipes, and do think, "yeah, I will get the best ice cream by using a lot of real cream.

Keep trying till you get the hang of it!!!
Nothing better than fresh homemade ice cream!

 

[wdwiala]

Forget the mixes. Bleck. My family makes quick ice cream by combining 2 cans condensed milk and a two liter of soda. We prefer rootbeer and orange soda. Strawberry is good too. You may need to half this for a smaller freezer.

 

[clh2]

We LOVE the Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia homemade ice cream

We make it just a bit different - we use maraschino cherries instead of Bing cherries, and we put a little bit of the maraschino cherry juice in with the cream as well as a little red food coloring to make a nice pink color.

YUM!!!

 

[LindaG4458]

The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz

is a great ice cream cookbook. Recipes range from plain vanilla to Tiramisu, Rum Raisin, Oatmeal Raisin, and many sorbets. Really good stuff.

Actually, now I want to make some.

 

[Caribbean Pirates]

I just made vanilla and peppermint for Christmas and my DD's birthday. I make a custard base, then add the rest of the ingredients. It's time consuming, but oh so good.

Nancy

 

[Gigi22]

I just made vanilla ice cream with my Kitchen Aid ice cream maker. It is the kind of ice cream recipe that requires you to make a warm vanilla 'batter' of egg yolks, sugar, vanilla, whipping cream and half and half cream that you then cool down for 8 hours in the fridge. Then you pour the mix into the ice cream maker and after about 15 min. you have soft ice cream. To make hard ice cream, which is what I do, you need to pour out the soft ice cream into a freezer proof container and let it sit in the freezer for 3-4 hours.
The recipe is in the booklet that came with the appliance, so I don't know if it would work with yours. They do suggest that you can change the type of cream you use to make the ice cream less rich--you might use a lower fat cream or whole milk and see what you prefer.
Ice cream with chocolate sauce for dessert tonight! Yum!

 

[Zandy595]

This is the recipe I used that produced the frozen whipped cream texture with the fatty coated roof of the mouth feel. LOL

1 cup whole milk
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract



Thanks for the suggestions.

 

[marthachick]

Homemade Frosty

1/2 gallon chocolate milk
12 oz Cool Whip
1 Can (14 oz) Eagle Brand condensed milk

Mix the 3 ingredients together & freeze in your freezer. YUM!!!

 

[Gigi22]

This is the recipe I used that produced the frozen whipped cream texture with the fatty coated roof of the mouth feel. LOL

1 cup whole milk
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract



Thanks for the suggestions.

Zandy595--my ice cream recipe requires 50% whipping cream and 50% half and half and is still quite rich, so my suggestion would be to reverse the proportions in your recipe and do 2 c. whole milk and 1 c. whipping/heavy cream. Enjoy!

 

[denisem]

I have no idea if this will translate to your soft serve machine, but if you like citrus flavors (orange/lemon/banana) this is one I enjoyed from our old Oster ice cream maker. I betcha you could change it up with some pineapple to resemble a Dole Whip. It's called Six Threes - I cut the recipe in half, I'd imagine you would too:

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/six-threes-ice-cream/detail.aspx

 

[Tina]

We just used our new Cuisinart ice cream maker for the first time last night. We started with the basic vanilla and added oreos. We thought it was good, but are ready to try more. I also have the Ben & Jerry's recipe book and I see all of their recipes include eggs, which should make it more like a custard, I believe. I recommend picking up this book or look for similar recipes online. Our next adventure will be a chocolate hazelnut with Ferrero Rocher candies. Can't wait! Do some googling on ice cream maker recipes. There are lots to try out there.

ETA: I just noticed that you posted that you have a soft-serve machine. Sorry. I didn't catch that the first time I read it. I'm using the basic 2 Qt ice cream maker by cuisinart.

 

[cornflake]

This is the recipe I used that produced the frozen whipped cream texture with the fatty coated roof of the mouth feel. LOL

1 cup whole milk
¾ cup granulated sugar
2 cups heavy cream
1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract



Thanks for the suggestions.

Ice cream is fatty. That's not an odd recipe or anything. You can try a custard base, it'll give you a richer, more complex texture, but it's also fatty.

What ice cream do you normally eat?

 

[Zandy595]

Ice cream is fatty. That's not an odd recipe or anything. You can try a custard base, it'll give you a richer, more complex texture, but it's also fatty.

What ice cream do you normally eat?

We usually get full fat Breyers or Publix Premium. The richness wasn't the problem, it was the wierd waxy coating it left on the roof of our mouths. As someone else mentioned, it was like it had turned into whipped butter. We left some out in a bowl and it didn't melt into liquid like regular ice cream would. It kind of kept it's shape.

 

[Zandy595]

We LOVE the Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia homemade ice cream

We make it just a bit different - we use maraschino cherries instead of Bing cherries, and we put a little bit of the maraschino cherry juice in with the cream as well as a little red food coloring to make a nice pink color.

YUM!!!

The Perfect Scoop by David Lebovitz

is a great ice cream cookbook. Recipes range from plain vanilla to Tiramisu, Rum Raisin, Oatmeal Raisin, and many sorbets. Really good stuff.

Actually, now I want to make some.

I put Ben & Jerry's homemade ice cream & dessert book and The Perfect Scoop on hold at my library.

 

[Gigi22]

Since you mention butter, can I ask what the date was on your whipping cream? I remember my mom made butter (and buttermilk) once by accident, trying to very stiffly whip some cream in her stand mixer. Turns out the cream was too--and I think this is right--fresh.

 

[Twende]

I received one of these as a present this Christmas and DH ordered the Dole Whip Pineapple mix also. It was so nice to have a Dole Whip Float outside of Magic Kingdom!

http://www.unifiedenterprisescorp.com/products2.html

 

[Dancind]

My most hinted at gift for Christmas was the ice cream attachment for my Kitchenaid mixer, and DH came through. We eat gluten and sugar free, and I do not tolerate sugar alcohols well, so not a lot of ice cream in my life for the past few years. That's about to change!

Tried a recipe last night from Blaine's Low Carb kitchen. It was basically 3c heavy cream, a cup of pumpkin puree, cocoa, pumpkin spice, 4 egg yolks. I used xylitol, splenda, and a bit of coconut sugar as sweeteners. It is very good and very, very rich, couldn't eat much. Using a blend of sweeteners is supposed to help it taste less artificial, and it worked. As a bonus, DD got a batch of sugar free meringue cookies from the leftover egg whites!

Next time I'm going to try less cream, maybe sub some coconut milk, and see how it turns out. I'm craving coffee ice cream. I want to try some sf sorbets too.

 

[scbelleatheart]

I make ice milk since it is impossible to find in stores. It uses 2% milk, splenda and vanilla. Yum and so easy.

 

[Zandy595]

Since you mention butter, can I ask what the date was on your whipping cream? I remember my mom made butter (and buttermilk) once by accident, trying to very stiffly whip some cream in her stand mixer. Turns out the cream was too--and I think this is right--fresh.

I'm not sure what the date was, but I know I had it in the fridge at least a week before I used it.

I received one of these as a present this Christmas and DH ordered the Dole Whip Pineapple mix also. It was so nice to have a Dole Whip Float outside of Magic Kingdom!

http://www.unifiedenterprisescorp.com/products2.html

Thanks for the link. Have you tried anything other than the Dole Whip mix?

I make ice milk since it is impossible to find in stores. It uses 2% milk, splenda and vanilla. Yum and so easy.

Good to know. I was thinking of using whole milk, but if it can be made with 2%, I will try that.