Ice Cream maker recipes???

After reading through countless recipes that had way too many steps and ingredients, I’ve been making it like this with good results.

Basic Vanilla Ice Cream
14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups heavy cream (or you can do a combination of cream and lower fat milk, just know that less fat in the mixture will create more ice crystals in the ice cream, I usually do 1.25 cups cream and .75 cup milk)
1 tsp vanilla (or other extract)

Make sure all ingredients are cold to start. Mix everything in a bowl or container and put it in the freezer for 20-30 minutes to make everything really cold (this will cut down your churning time). If you want to include chocolate chips, chopped candies or other mix-ins, add them in the last five minutes of churning time so they don’t all sink to the bottom. The ice cream will be like soft serve when it’s first done. Put it into a freezer safe container and continue to freeze it for another couple hours to achieve scooping consistency. This makes a perfect amount of ice cream for a 1.5 qt electric ice cream maker like the Cuisinart.

Note: for a basic chocolate ice cream, stir in 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder to the basic mixture above before chilling.

Have fun! I made so much ice cream last year it was crazy! The Ben & Jerry’s ice cream recipe book had a lot of ideas, but many of them required cooking or had eggs in them which I didn’t want to mess with. There are loads of recipes on Pinterest or Allrecipes that you can find with a quick search.

The Ben &Jerry’s ice cream cookbook. The first part talks of the science of ice cream. With this, I can alter the recipes slightly got fat content. 

Very yummy!!