Ideas For Homemade Ice Cream

Homemade ice cream is the ultimate frozen dessert and with the summer on its way it is going to become very popular again. With all the good ice cream makers you can get these days it is also not a problem making it any more. Some of the machines are better than others and looking around will be well worth your trouble. Back to the ideas. Plain vanilla is always a good starting point and then you can continue from there. Depending on the kind of machine you have the following recipe can serve as a basis for all your variations.

Plain vanilla:

• 4 Cups of cream
• 3/4 Cup of sugar
• 1/4 Teaspoon of salt
• 3 Teaspoons vanilla

If you are lucky enough to have a machine with a stirring function all you have to do with this recipe is place all the ingredients in the machine, set the stirring action and freeze according to the instructions of the manufacturer.

For the "custard" kind you can use the following recipe, it takes a little longer but is well worth the trouble.

• 2 Cups of hot milk
• 4 Egg yolks whipped
• 4 Egg yolks whipped 1/2 cup of sugar
• Pinch of salt
• 2 cups of cream
• 1 Tablespoon of vanilla

Method:

1. Heat the milk.
2. Mix the egg yolks, sugar and salt.
3. Add a little of the hot milk to the egg mixture
4. Pour it back into the hot milk and boil over a double boiler until done
5. Allow to cool down, add the cream and vanilla and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.

This will give you a basis to work from. Now you can start adding to your ice cream to make the one of your dreams.

Variations you can try:

1. 2 Cups of very ripe strawberries crushed with 1/ 2 cup sugar. Simply add this to you mixture from the start.

2. Add 1 cup of chopped nuts and a teaspoon of almond extract for a sinfully almond and nut ice cream.

3. For a sinfully caramel one you can melt the sugar in a heavy bottomed pan and dissolve it in milk before you use it. This kind is probably more suitable for the "custard" kind of recipes made with eggs as well.

4. Avocado ice cream. This sounds strange but it is delicious. You have to make sure you mash the avocado very finely before you add it. You also have to make sure you add a little lemon juice to prevent the avocado from going black. I normally mix the avocado and lemon juice before I add it to the mixture.

5. Chocolate chip cookie ice cream. This is easy, you simply crunch a packet of chocolate cookies and add it to the mixture. It is of course also possible to add a little chocolate syrup to the mixture, it all depends on how sinful you want to go.

6. For a tasty coffee one, all you have to do is add a 1/3 cup of very strong coffee to your mixture, for a mocha taste you can also add a little chocolate syrup.

I think it is clear to you that just about anything can go. Make sure you think about your flavors before you start to make sure they will work. Homemade ice cream can be as rich or as healthy as you choose. You should be able to make very rich ones and on the other side you can make tasty fruit ices, it is all up to you and the kind of homemade ice cream maker you have.

Good news! I have found an ice cream maker that can have it ready for you in 30 minutes. The name is the Lello Musso Lussino 4080 and it is very easy to use. You simply add all the ingredients, push two buttons and you are done. Go and have a look at it: http://www.squidoo.com/MussoLussino4080

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