Stop Screaming for Ice Cream and Start Making Some
With the Fourth of July holiday right around the corner, I decided to rerun this video recipe for vanilla ice cream that I did last year. An abbreviated version of the original post follows...
When it came to choosing a flavor, I decided to do vanilla, as it really is the king of ice creams (sorry chocolate). No other flavor makes milk taste milkier, or cream taste creamier.
When I do vanilla ice cream, I prefer the old fashion "American," or "Philadelphia-style" which doesn't contain any eggs, as does the more popular French vanilla. While this style of ice cream is certainly not as rich, in my opinion that sacrifice is rewarded with a brighter, more pronounced vanilla flavor.
I also use a combination of milk and cream, which is obviously much lighter than the traditional all cream versions. You can experiment with different proportions to find your "perfect scoop."
The Cuisinart ice cream maker pictured here is the one I use, and highly recommend. It's relatively inexpensive, and will provide many years of homemade ice cream and other frozen desserts. The great thing about this model is that the "bucket" is kept in the freezer, and is ready any time you are. Enjoy!
Ingredients:
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup cream
2 1/4 cup milk
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Ice Cream Photo (c) Flickr user Yogma
23 comments:
I had my eye on this exact ice-cream maker for about 3 years or so. A couple of months ago, the price suddenly plummeted on amazon to ~$35 (I see it has gone up again since then). I snatched it up in seconds. It's easy to use, as you point out, but it is terrible at scraping the frozen ice cream off the sides and mixing it with the rest of the ice cream. As a result, I generally stick a spoon in and gently scrape the inside slowly in a spiral to mix it in- the process speeds up beautifully, but it is a pain in the butt. It seems to be a common complaint on the model. Do you have any thoughts? Also, I will say that yes yes yes you MUST chill the solution before you try to make ice cream from it. I never waited 2 hours, but I do other tricks to cool it. This after one time in the beginning sneering and declaring such cooling to be nonsense. First ice cream I made was strawberry. Was never a big fan of strawberry but I prepared the strawberries and everything and made it. First taste and my eyes popped open- to anybody reading this if you have never tried home-made fresh strawberry ice cream you are missing OUT. I cannot go back now. Sorry for the rambling.
I've never had that problem with the paddle. It seems that way when it first starts, but if you just let it go, it scrapes fine.
I bought a 1 qt Rival ice cream maker. I made ice cream a couple of days ago. It came out good. I will try your recipe, but it looks like yours is 2 qts. I will try the heating up of the sugar and cream. I didn't know you could do that. Thanks for the video.
I also can't wait to see the caramel video. Yummmm.
I don't know why I'm even here. I'm sick and doctor said I can't eat in two days. I guess I'm enjoying imaginary food by reading your website. If you want nuts in your ice cream you add them in the beginning or towards the end?
Hi Chef, Nice new welcome message video on the side. Tho you look 'normal' without your chef whites. Thanks for the ice cream vid--I have this same machine thanks to your original post and have enjoyed making ice cream. Have a great July 4th. :)
The vanilla ice cream + caramel combo is greatly improved with chopped walnuts and a spoon of dark aged rum (spiced rum works too).
A secret ingredient: A half piece of ripe Haas avocado blended into the vanilla ice cream liquid mix. Has to be blended in while cold, warm milk would ruin the flavor. Addition of avocado turns the color slightly into greenish but it brings out the vanilla flavor in the most delightful way. Avocado improves the mouth-feel as well.
Homemade ice-creams tend to melt faster and drip more since no gum stabilizers are added - most supermarket brands (except for Haagen Dazs) contains carrageenan, carob bean, xanthan gums. Gum-free ice creams tend to taste better.
what? no salt?
I bought a brand new Doniver ice cream maker at a thrift store for $8. Ice cream is not my favorite food, but when I make it at home, it is way better than any store brand.
Stir all the sugar into one cup of milk and microwave for one minute. Stir a few more seconds and the sugar will be dissolved. Add to the rest of the milk and cream. Chills faster and saves some clean up.
I substituted 1/4 cup of brown sugar. Delicious!
umm...do i NEED to have an ice cream maker? or can i make it by hand?
you need a maker
What about freezing it after chilling if u dont have maker?
ice crystals form and ruin the texture. Think about it, if it was that easy there would be no ice cream makers and everyone would be making ice cream!
It's so funny that you do a video about this because I'd been wanting an ice cream maker for years and just recently purchased one for my birthday last month...ever since I've been making ice cream like crazy, LOL. I like the french vanilla custardy recipe....and my favorite milk combo so far has been using evaporated milk and half & half together. Have you ever tried evaporated milk? I tried using coconut milk...but even though I tempered the eggs I still wound up with scrambled eggs...yuck. Thanks for this vid!!!
never tried evap, this one works for me. Thanks!
Hey thnx for sharing with us a very yummy ice cream till now i do not have any Ice machine but after looking this post i have to add Ice Machine in my Kitchen ........Nice Post
The caramel recipe soon, please!
Hi chef! I can't wait to try your recipe! I have the same ice cream maker and havn't been succesfull with the results. I think it's the ingredients... I'm from Mexico and was wondering what kind of cream you use because here we don't have one that just named "cream". And I don't know which one to buy! Thank you! Congratulations on your blog!
hi chief i wanted to make it as fast as possible so the markets near my home didn't have Vanilla so i bought a chocolate syrup and right now i'm going to make it i will post it as soon as i finished
oh and chief i even don't have an ice cream maker so im just gonna use a mixer
hi chief i am the one with no vanilla and ice cream maker i have results : ...................
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it worked thx chief your awesome i had a chocolate ice cream and every one loved it so awesome thx chief and i said it honesty really it worked
Hi chef. the ice cream tastes great. could you perhaps tell us how many calories it has?
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