My favorite is vanilla; because using that as a base, we can make it into almost any kind we wish at the time of serving. Last night it was coffee ice cream. Tonight my husband made his chocolate and I opted for plain vanilla. Peanut butter, cookies and cream, chocolate peanut butter marshmallow, lemon cookie crunch, salted caramel, cherry nut.... make any kind you wish out of it!
Homemade Ice Cream
4 cups heavy cream
3 egg yolks
dash of salt
1 T unflavored gelatin powder
3/4 c natural sweetener(s) of choice
3 T vanilla
In a saucepan on the stove but with the heat off, place 2 cups of the heavy cream, along with all the other ingredients. Whisking them briskly, turn the heat on and heat over medium until it starts to steam and you start to see tiny bubbles start to form around the edge but do not let it simmer or boil. Just remove it from heat. Whisk in the rest of the cream and either chill it in the refrigerator until you wish to use it, or pour it directly into your machine.
Turn it on and press the button for ICE CREAM. And wait. In about 30-35 minutes you have soft serve ice cream ready to eat and you can put the rest of it into a container of your choice, seal it tight and place it into the freezer to harden for scooping at another time.
(Remember your ice cream maker bowl needs to come straight from the deep freezer and needs to be frozen solid. If you can hear the liquid swishing around the inside, then your freezer isn't cold enough or the bowl needs to be moved to a colder part of your freezer because it needs to freeze solid. (Note: my upright freezer doesn't get as cold as our chest style deep freezer. The bowl freezes solid within about 6 hours in that one! But 24 hours in our upright style barely gets it solid.)
*I like to fill a coffee mug with ice cream and pour 6 ounces of strong brewed coffee over mine.
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Serve it somewhat soft now or place it in another container to get harder for scooping later.
Soft serve, straight from the machine.
YES it tastes just as good as it looks.
You have to hurry to get the ice cream out because your bowl is still frozen and freezing the mixture that is closest to its walls. If you work fast enough to scrape all the soft ice cream out into another container, you won't have much left that is hardened on the bowl... but then again, I always figure that's my first serving! I just grab a spoon and dig in!
