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Sunday, March 20, 2011

Homemade Ice Cream

My in-laws gave us an ice cream maker a couple years ago for Christmas, and for the last year or so we have been making ice cream a few times a month.  We usually make plain vanilla and then dress it up when we eat it.

VANILLA ICE CREAM
  • 2 (14 ounce) cans sweetened condensed milk
  • 5 cups milk
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 2 tablespoons vanilla extract
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt
I usually use 2% milk and half-and-half instead of the heavy cream.  If desired, you can add 3 cups of fruit pieces. 
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Dawn Brown said...

It's so weird you posted this. I bought an ice cream maker last year and I just broke it out again yesterday. We made birthday cake ice cream and it turned out perfect! My favorite is peppermint ice cream (which is basically vanilla with the crushed peppermint pieces added at the end...although, I also use peppermint extract instead of vanilla).

After experimenting last year, we discovered we like "custard" style ice cream best, which involves cooking the base over the stove and cooling it for a few hours before adding cream. It's more time consuming, but absolutely worth it! I've never tried a recipe using sweetened condensed milk...I'll have to give yours a whirl! Tonight I'm making cookies and cream...yummy!

March 20, 2011 at 8:05 PM
Holly said...

Our family has our own recipe and it's really good!! Snow ice cream is good too!

March 21, 2011 at 6:32 PM
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