Homemade Ice Cream Recipes

I bet your family will love you even more if you could serve them varied flavors of ice cream everyday. Here are some mouthwatering homemade ice cream recipes.

Pina Colada Ice Cream

Ingredients

• Whole Milk – 3 Cups
• Instant Coconut Cream Pudding – 1 Packet
• Crushed Pineapple – 1 Can (8 Ounces)
• Rum Flavoring – 1 Teaspoon
• Vanilla Extract – 1 Teaspoon

Directions

• Add all the ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix on medium speed until the mixture is evenly blended.
• Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze as per the directions provided with the ice cream maker.

Almond Ice Cream

Ingredients

• Blanched and dried almonds – ¼ pound
• Sugar – 2/3 Cup
• Vanilla Extract – 1 Teaspoon
• Water – 1 Pint
• Salt – A few grains

Directions

• In a food chopper that has a disk for grinding nut butter, grind the almonds till they are fine.
• Mix the paste of the almond with salt and water.
• Cook the paste in a double boiler till it is creamy.
• Cool the paste. Add sugar and vanilla extract.
• Freeze the mixture for some excellent almond flavored ice cream.

Blueberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

• Blueberries – 2 Pints
• Sugar – 1.5 Cups
• Orange Juice – 3 Tablespoon
• Light Cream – 4 Cups
• Vanilla Extract – 1 Teaspoon

Directions

• In a saucepan, mix the blueberries, sugar and orange juice. Mash the berries slightly and cook over a medium flame stirring occasionally till the mixture starts boiling. Simmer the mixture for five more minutes and then turn off the heat.
• Blend the mixture in a food processor and then push the mixture through a strainer using the back of a wooden spoon. Let the mixture cool for sometime.
• In an ice cream maker, mix the blueberry mixture with the cream and vanilla extract. Freeze as per the directions provided with the ice cream maker.

Maple Ice Cream

Ingredients

• Maple Syrup – 1 Cup
• Egg Yolk – 6
• Whole Milk – 1 Cup
• Heavy Cream – 1.5 Cups
• Cornstarch – 1 Tablespoon
• Vanilla Extract – ½ Teaspoon
• Coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans – ½ Cup

Directions

• Add the cream in a heavy bottom saucepan and heat till the cream starts simmering.
• Whisk the maple syrup, cornstarch and the egg yolks together.
• Add this mixture, to the hot cream and boil till until the mixture thickens a little. Do not let the mixture boil.
• Strain the mixture into a large bowl.
• Cool the mixture a little and whisk in the milk and vanilla.
• Chill the mixture thoroughly before freezing it in the ice maker.
• Add the walnuts or pecans towards the end of freezing.

Cookie Ice Cream Pie

This is a very simple recipe that makes an excellent crunchy creamy dessert as it uses two prepared ingredients – cookies and ice cream. Ingredients

• Chocolate cream filled sandwich cookies – 25
• Butter – 3 Tablespoons
• Raspberry Ice cream – ½ gallon
• Hot Fudge – ½ Cup
• Fresh Raspberries

Directions

• Finely crush 100 chocolate cream filled sandwich cookies.
• Combine the crushed cookies and the butter and mix it properly.
• Press the mixture onto the bottom of a 9 inch pie plate.
• Stand the whole cookies up around the edges and pressing it lightly into the crust.
• Freeze the pie plate for an hour.
• Spread half the raspberry ice cream over the crushed cookies.
• Cover this layer of ice cream with a quarter of the fudge.
• Freeze the pie plate for an hour again.
• Spread the remaining ice cream over the fudge and then the remaining fudge over the ice cream.
• Freeze overnight.
• Garnish with fresh raspberries.
• Let the pie stand for in room temperature for 15 minutes before cutting.

All the best!