Basic custard base ice cream recipes

These recipes are a great place to start, but for anyone serious about making homemade ice cream i would have to recommend this ice cream recipe book . It has over 200 delicious recipes and I highly recommend it.

*all recipes should be chilled before putting in ice cream maker (best if chilled over night, yet not necessary). The colder the ice cream is made, before being put into the ice cream maker, the better your result will be. This is because the less time the ice cream takes to freeze, the smoother and less icy the result will be. However, if you put your ice cream in the freezer to chill it, and some of it is partially frozen when you put it in the ice cream maker, you will get a very icy and unsmooth result from any ice cream recipe. Whenever ice cream or ice cream base is put in the fridge/ freezer cover it with plastic wrap so that it does not absorb other flavors.

Custard Ice Cream Base Recipe

This custard base is used for nearly all custard ice cream recipes.

1 cups heavy whipping cream

1 cups of milk

1/3 cup + 1 tbs. sugar

2 egg yolks

1) Heat the milk, cream, and 1/3 cup sugar in a saucepan. Stir until mixture is hot and

all the sugar has dissolved

2) Whisk the egg yolks and 1 tablespoonsugar in a seperate bowl. Still whisking add one cup

of the hot liquid to the egg yolks. Poor the mixture back into the sauce pan while continually

stirring the mixture. (all the stirring is so that the eggs don't cook, you don't want little peices

of scrambled eggs in your ice cream!)

3)Cook the mixture over medium heat until it thickens slightly and coats the back of a spoon.

(stir constantly and do not allow to boil, or mixture will curdle). Mixture should take around

5 minutes to thicken. Now strain the custard ice cream base into a clean bowl and use as

directed in recipes.

-This ice cream base can also be made into a simple ice cream with no additional flavorings.

-the milk to cream ratio can be adjusted depending on if you want your ice cream to be more

or less rich.

Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

1 recipe custard base

1 vanila bean(split), or 1 tablespoon vanilla extract.

Add the vanilla bean to the milk, cream, and sugar when making the custard base. After

straining the whole mixture scrape in the vanilla seeds.

Add 1 tablespoon of vanilla to the custard base when done.

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe

1 recipe custard base

10-15 fresh mint leaves

1 teaspoon vanilla

1/4 cup chopped dark chocolate

1)make one recipe of custard base

2)Put mint leaves in food processer (with a few pinches of sugar=opional) for 1 minute. Add to

custard base

3) Add vanilla to custard base, and mix.

4) Add mixture to ice cream machine. Add 1/4 cup dark chocolate a few minutes before ice

cream is done.

Honey Ice Cream Recipe

1 recipe vanilla ice cream

1/3 cup honey

Use the recipe for vanilla ice cream, but substitute honey for sugar. Honey tends to be sweeter so add a little less if necessary.

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