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 mouth-watering 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 Tablespoons
• 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!