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Ube Ice Cream
Ube is a tuber with an eye-catching purple color, and a sweet, vanilla-like flavor. Whip up a batch of ube ice cream at home to rival the Trader Joe's version with our must-make recipe using ube powder and extract. It's a great summer dessert to impress your friends, and kids love the vibrant purple color.
02 of 15
No-Churn Pistachio Ice Cream
For pistachio lovers there is no greater treat than a bowl of pistachio ice cream, and this one just happens to come together with only five ingredients, no ice cream maker needed. The secret ingredient is sweetened condensed milk, which helps the ice cream to remain soft and scoopable when frozen.
03 of 15
Hokey Pokey Ice Cream
Hokey Pokey is New Zealand's favorite ice cream flavor, and for good reason. Now you can enjoy the scrumptious treat stateside, with our easy recipe that combines golden, crunchy honeycomb candy (also called sponge candy, or hokey pokey down under) with scoops of store-bought vanilla ice cream.
04 of 15
Classic Chocolate Ice Cream
What would summer be without chocolate ice cream? Make your own this summer with this foolproof recipe for a rich and creamy version that kids and adults alike will love to eat. Be sure to allow the cooked custard mixture to cool completely before churning in your ice-cream maker.
05 of 15
Matcha Ice Cream
This popular Japanese ice cream flavor has a subtle grassy taste and beautiful green hue thanks to matcha, a powder made from dried shade-grown green tea leaves. It's simple to prepare with heavy cream, egg yolks, sugar, and matcha. Serve it with fresh raspberries or raspberry sauce for a pop of contrasting color and flavor.
06 of 15
Blue Moon Ice Cream
With its bright blue hue, and a taste like Fruity Pebbles, it's no wonder that blue moon ice cream has been a longtime staple in the Midwest. Instant vanilla pudding gives our recipe a rich and creamy texture the whole family will cheer for. Churn it up at home for enjoying during any phase of the moon.
07 of 15
Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream Cake
Savor the scrumptious flavors of old-fashioned strawberry shortcake in the form of a cooling summer dessert. Our winning strawberry shortcake ice cream cake uses freeze-dried strawberries for intense strawberry flavor and butter cookies to recreate that nostalgic crumble on top.
08 of 15
No-Churn Ice Cream
If you've always wanted to try your hand at making ice cream, but lack an ice cream maker, our no-churn ice cream recipe is a great place to start. It takes just a few minutes to throw together, with no cooking required. All you need are a few kitchen tools, 4 ingredients, and a few hours of freezing time. Tweak it with chocolate chips, fruit chunks, or your favorite add-ins for an easy, cooling treat.
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09 of 15
Mason Jar Ice Cream
Mason jar ice cream is probably the quickest way to get your ice cream fix, without needing to venture out to the ice cream shop. You don't even need an ice cream maker for this recipe that uses good, old-fashioned arm power. It's easy to tweak with your favorite flavorings and add-ins for a customizable summer treat.
10 of 15
Rocky Road Ice Cream
Rocky road ice cream is the oldest mix-in based ice cream flavor in the US, invented in 1929. There's a reason it's still available at thousands of ice cream parlors and every grocery store in the land. This version uses marshmallow creme for ultra-smooth swirls.
11 of 15
Southern Buttermilk Ice Cream
Buttermilk is a Southern staple used in everything from pancakes to cornbread. Now you can enjoy its signature, rich, tangy flavor in our creamy buttermilk ice cream that makes the best-ever topping for sliced peach pie, or a warm-from-the-oven apple cobbler.
12 of 15
Spaghettieis Ice Cream Sundae
What looks like a plate of pasta but tastes like an ice cream sundae? It's spaghettieis, a fun and unique ice cream confection originating from Germany. Strings of vanilla ice cream (created with a potato ricer) play the role of noodles, while strawberry sauce subs in for marinara, and white chocolate or coconut shavings mimic parmesan cheese.
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13 of 15
Giant Ice Cream Sandwich
Indulge in a nostalgic summer childhood treat with our giant ice cream sandwich cake. It is easy to assemble with a convenient cake mix, and store-bought vanilla ice cream, and makes a crowd-pleasing dessert for summer birthday parties.
14 of 15
Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream
Peanut-butter loving kids and adults will flip for our nutty, creamy peanut butter swirl ice cream. You'll use an ice cream maker, and just a handful of ingredients, to create the custardy vanilla ice cream base. Then swirl in our essential, 4-ingredient peanut butter sauce, and refreeze to set.
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Halo-Halo
Halo-halo means "mix mix" in Tagalog, and if you're the kind of person who struggles to decide what to have for dessert, this is the ice cream treat for you. Loaded with different flavors, colors, and textures, halo-halo features sweetened red beans, shaved ice, coconut, evaporated milk, and ube ice cream for a maximalist sweet treat.
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FAQs
What is the secret ingredient to ice cream? ›
The cream cheese helps create an ice cream with a denser, smoother texture. As explained by TASTE, cream cheese acts as a stabilizer in ice cream, preventing water from seeping out of the milk and cream as well as preventing the formation of ice crystals that detract from ice cream's creaminess.
How to make ice cream in 10 minutes? ›Step 1In a small resealable plastic bag, combine half-and-half, sugar, and vanilla. Push out excess air and seal. Step 2Into a large resealable plastic bag, combine ice and salt. Place small bag inside the bigger bag and shake vigorously, 7 to 10 minutes, until ice cream has hardened.
How to make ice cream in the old days? ›Vanilla Ice Cream:
Mix ½ cup sugar or 1/3 cup sugar and 3 tablespoons corn syrup 1 teaspoon flour and a few grains salt. Add to milk and stir until thickened. Cover and cook ten minutes. Beat 1 egg yolk slightly, add a portion of the hot milk, return to double boiler and stir and cook one minute.
If you have ever made ice cream, you already know what goes into it, ingredients such as milk, cream, and sugar. But there is one main ingredient that you may not have thought about, probably because you can't see it—air.
How to make ice cream hack? ›- Pour the milk, sugar and vanilla into the smaller, quart sized bag.
- Fill the larger, gallon sized bag 3/4 full of ice, then add the salt to the ice.
- Place the smaller bag inside the larger bag and close the seal. ...
- Now shake the bag good and hard for 5 minutes.
The method by which they did this was they used ice and added lots n lots of salt to that ice, the salt would prevent the ice from melting too fast. In this pool of ice n salt, the milk, cream and other ingredients were kept and churned constantly. This is how ice cream was made back then.
How did people make ice cream in the 1800s? ›From the introduction of ice cream to Britain in the 17th century to the 1930s, most people made ice cream with a simple sorbetière (a lidded pewter jar) in a wooden bucket. This would have been spun round by hand and occasionally opened and scraped down and mixed.
How did they make ice cream in the 1700s? ›They used ice and salt to lower the freezing temperature of the ice, and then sat the liquid product inside this mixture in a separate tub and stirred the cream until it froze.
Are ice cream makers worth it? ›There's a unique satisfaction that comes from crafting your ice cream from a machine right in your own kitchen, experimenting with flavors and customizing the ingredients to your taste. The process itself is a fun and creative endeavor, making it a favorite among people who love being creative in the kitchen.
Can you put soda in an ice cream maker? ›And so it is with great delight that I want to inform you that if you have a simple at-home ice cream maker, you can just put co*ke in it. Yes, it's that simple.
How do you mimic an ice cream maker? ›
If you've already got a food processor, the food processor method is the closest to an ice cream machine you can get. You can use any ice cream recipe you've been eyeing and have hand-churned ice cream in a single day, even with freezing time.
What is the most important ingredient in making ice cream? ›Of course, the main ingredients in ice cream come from milk–and the most important part of that is milkfat, which gives ice cream its smoothness and creamy texture. In fact, in order to be called ice cream, the USDA requires it to contain at least 10 percent milkfat, which can come from milk or cream.
What makes the perfect ice cream? ›Fat. A great ice cream owes its smooth, creamy mouthfeel to fat, which helps keep ice crystals small. As Bauer explains, fat is also extraordinarily effective at carrying flavors, so when ice cream melts in your mouth, you are hit with the taste of your ingredients.
What gives ice cream its creamy texture? ›At its core ice cream is a successful emulsion of fat into water, sugar, and ice with air mixed into the batch. An emulsion is a mixture of two substances that typically separate (like oil and water). But, instead mix together to form the consistent creamy base used for ice cream. It's Science!
What makes ice cream creamy and not icy? ›To continue our bread analogy: As bakers add sugar to bread to keep it soft and moist, ice cream makers alter consistency with sugar. By binding with liquids, sugar molecules prevent an ice cream base from fully freezing into crunchy ice. That is, the more sugar you add, the softer and less icy your batch will be.