This recipe is incredibly quick and versatile. The basic vanilla recipe below is great, but by adding any number of different in season fruits, or other ingredients you have on hand such as coffee, chocolate syrup and/ or chopped nuts, you can vary it enormously.
Ingredients
1 cup cream
1 cup milk
1 tin sweetened condensed milk, or equivalent homemade
2 tsp vanilla essence
Method
1. Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until well combined. Do not over beat, as the cream will start churning into butter which will affect the taste of the ice cream. Chill mixture well in the fridge.
2. Add chilled mixture to an ice cream churn/ machine and process according to the instructions, OR freeze for one hour in a suitable container. Remove and beat again to break up the ice crystals. Freeze again for one hour, then repeat the beating and freeze once more. This will ensure that the ice crystals forming in the ice cream are as small as possible, and hence the ice cream will taste creamier.
Suggestions
To the basic mixture, you could try adding one of the following:
* The flesh of one peeled and roughly chopped fresh mango when blending;
* One punnet of fresh stawberries;
* Around 100ml of cooled brewed espresso coffee, and a handful of chopped hazelnuts, if desired;
* A good drizzle of chocolate syrup;
* One punnet of whole blueberries added after the mixture has been churning in the machine for 5 minutes.
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