So, Santa brought be a KitchenAid ice cream maker, which now has a home in my freezer.
What are some ***easy ***getting started recipes? I’ve got 3 girls (age 10 and 6) who like the full range from Dairy Queen to Haagen Daz and full on gourmet ice cream. The youngest twin, who doesn’t like sweets as a rule, will eat chocolate ice cream.
So, I’d really like some simple but good recipes for kids. Easy and kid good being the watchwords. Along the lines of:
2 cups half and half
1/2 cup sugar
some chocolate (powder/sauce and/or chunks)?
1 tablespoon vanilla and start mixing.
Has anyone tried the sweetend condensed version and what did you think? Is it easier and better or just go :
14 oz. Can sweetened condensed milk
4 Cups half and half or light cream
1 Tablespoon vanilla
Combine all ingredients together then pour into ice cream machine
I’d also like a few custard style starter recipes. Again, I’m looking for the easy but good side of the spectrum. No doubt, I’ll be back at some point asking for help on the gourmet side but looking for getting started type that won’t frustrate my wife or kids.
And any tips and tricks would be good too. A few off the top of my head are: For custard, egg yolk only versus using the whole egg? How do you know when the egg is cooked but not overdone?
For sorbet or gelato - are these easy to do? If they are a lot more work, is it worth it?
As I recommended in the other recent thread, the Ben & Jerry’s book is invaluable. It gives several tenchniques, including the condensed milk version and I think three ways to make chocolate ice cream.
Most ice creams are actually extremely simple. I’ve never tried frozen custard though.
Thanks.
I am also hoping for personal kid friendly experience that the books never seem to address.
I’m not exactly sure what you mean. Making ice cream is incredibly simple. The recipes in B&J’s books are overwhelming of the “cream, sugar, eggs, flavor extract, mix” variety. Just use pasteurized eggs.
This time of year, egg nog is highly available. It’s a custard, which isn’t “set,” and makes a fine ice cream base, if you’ve some left over, or want a quick add and mix. I recently added cocoa powder to a pumpkin spice egg nog that my wife didn’t like much, and it came out as a fantastic ice-cream.
For "chunky bit additions, anything goes.
Two kinds of ice cream–custard-style, where you cook eggs and milk/cream together to make a thickened base, and Philadelphia-style, with just milk/cream and flavorings.
With the latter, a recipe isn’t that necessary. Mix milk and flavorings–frozen berries, coca powder, melted chocolate, vanilla, etc. Add sugar until it’s a little too sweet, as it will taste less sweet when it’s frozen, huck it in the ice cream maker, and go.
For sorbet, puree fruit and water together, not too thick, you want it watery, add sugar, same deal.