Features of cooking. TOP-6 best recipes for homemade ice cream made from milk, cream, kefir, with chocolate, fruit and condensed milk, in the freezer or ice cream maker. Video recipes.
Homemade ice cream is a delicious and light summer dessert that can be made from milk, cream, condensed milk, sour cream, kefir, sugar and eggs. It can be made in an ice cream maker or simply frozen in the freezer. Usually, ice cream is prepared at home with strawberries, bananas, and sweet tooths also love the classic ice cream and the chocolate version. Without eggs and dairy products, you can make a fruit treat; melon, watermelon, pineapple and any other juicy fruits are used for it. You will need a blender to mix and whisk the ingredients, and to measure their cooking temperature, be sure to prepare a cooking thermometer. Further, the basic principles of making and the best recipes for homemade ice cream.
Features of making homemade ice cream
It turns out that our ancestors from Kievan Rus knew how to make homemade ice cream. They would freeze the milk and serve the shavings made from it. On Shrovetide, a frozen mass of cottage cheese, sour cream, raisins and sugar was prepared.
Some historians argue that the recipe for ice cream at home in Europe appeared only thanks to Italian sailors, and its modern version with milk and sugar - only at the end of the 18th century in Paris, it began to be served in a local cafe.
There are now many different ways to make ice cream at home. Unlike purchased sweets, homemade ones have absolutely no preservatives, vegetable fats and other components that can have a negative effect on the human body.
Every housewife knows how to make homemade ice cream using various ingredients:
- Milk … When making homemade dairy ice cream, it is recommended that you only use fresh, high-fat product. The milk is first heated to 60 ° C, then the rest of the ingredients are added. When making milk ice cream at home without an ice cream maker, stir it well every 30 minutes during freezing, otherwise ice chunks will start to form in it. Similarly, you need to mix ice cream if it is prepared on the basis of kefir.
- Cream … Ice cream is much tastier and richer and more delicate when the cream is high in fat. Beat them with a mixer until soft peaks form. Before whipping, they must be cooled. If only cream is used from dairy products in the dessert, then you do not need to stir the ice cream during solidification, it will not crystallize.
- Eggs … Usually, only yolks are taken to make ice cream. Beat them lightly, but not until frothy. Beaten eggs are added to warmed milk and boiled until the mass thickens. At the same time, it is imperative to thoroughly mix the ice cream so that the yolks do not curl, otherwise the ice cream will be hopelessly spoiled.
- Fruits … They can be both a flavor enhancer for creamy or milk ice cream, or the main ingredient for making fruit sorbet. You can add strawberry puree, banana slices, currant jam and any other fruits and berries to your taste. And fruit ice is best obtained from fruits with a significant water content - watermelon, pineapple, melon.
- Chocolate … For ice cream to have a rich taste and aroma, it is best to use dark chocolate, but with milk or white, the dessert will turn out to be no less tasty.
TOP 6 homemade ice cream recipes
If you know how to make ice cream at home, then the summer heat is absolutely not scary for you. This takes no more than 10 minutes. It hardens for another 6-7 hours, so it is best to make a treat at night so that you can enjoy delicious homemade ice cream all the next day.
Homemade ice cream
In Soviet times, ice cream was considered the most delicious ice cream, since it was produced strictly in accordance with GOSTs. It did not allow the use of vegetable fats, only whole milk, cream and butter. Agar-agar or starch was used as a thickener. Homemade ice cream has a delicate texture and a pleasant creamy taste. It just melts in your mouth. To make it the same as in childhood, you must use very heavy cream.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 227 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Milk (3.2%) - 300 ml
- Cream (33-35%) - 250 ml
- Powdered milk - 35 g
- Sugar - 90 g
- Corn starch - 10 g
- Vanilla sugar - 1 sachet
Step by step preparation of homemade ice cream:
- Pour milk powder, sugar and vanilla flavor enhancer into a saucepan, mix everything.
- Pour 250 ml of milk into the powder mixture. Stir everything, put on the stove and boil.
- In a separate bowl, combine 50 ml milk and cornstarch.
- Put the diluted starch into the boiling milk mixture. Cook until thickened. Cool the resulting mass.
- Pre-cool ice cream for homemade ice cream, beat until soft peaks form.
- Use a whisk to whisk the whipped cream into the milk mixture.
- Pour the mass into a bowl of sufficient size and place in the freezer.
- To prevent crystallization, remove from the freezer every half hour and beat homemade ice cream in a blender. If not, stir with a regular wooden spoon, but this method is less effective.
It takes no more than half an hour to make homemade ice cream, it still takes 5-6 hours for it to solidify. As a result, you will get a delicate and incredibly tasty delicacy that will easily help you cool off in the summer heat.
Ice cream
Homemade ice cream made from cream turns out to be very tender, incredibly tasty and healthy, due to the content in it of a large amount of dairy products and eggs. Even a novice cook can prepare this delicacy, because all actions are clear and only available products are used.
Ingredients:
- Milk - 420 ml
- Sugar - 120 g
- Eggs - 2 pcs.
- Cream (33%) - 120 ml
Step-by-step preparation of creamy ice cream:
- Break the eggs into a deep bowl, add sugar, beat everything lightly with a whisk.
- Heat the milk on the stove to 60 ° C. If you have not stocked up with a cooking thermometer, you need to remove the milk from the stove when the first steam appears above it.
- Pour the warmed milk into eggs, beaten with sugar, mix everything.
- Pour the resulting mixture into a saucepan with a thick bottom, cook it on a small hotplate until the temperature reaches 82 ° C. This will make the mixture thicker. The mass must be constantly stirred so that it does not stick to the bottom.
- Remove the mixture from the burner, cool.
- Pour the cream into the cooled mass, mix everything and put the homemade ice cream in an ice cream maker for further cooking.
You can also make creamy homemade ice cream without an ice cream maker. Its blank must be poured into plastic containers with a lid and placed in the freezer. Every half hour, the container must be removed and the contents mixed. Repeat this at least 4 times so that no crystals appear in the mixture. After the 5th stirring, the homemade cream ice cream should remain in the freezer for 7-8 hours.
Fruit icecream
Unlike classic ice cream or homemade creamy ice cream, fruit ice cream is prepared without cream and milk. It contains yogurt and lots of juicy fruits. Their set does not matter, the main thing is that they are juicy and sweet. Knowing how to make homemade fruit ice cream will help you use any fruit in season. In winter, exotic pineapples are suitable, and juicy watermelons in summer.
Ingredients:
- Fruit (finely chopped) - 3 tbsp.
- White sugar - 1/2 tbsp.
- Corn syrup - 3 tablespoons
- Fresh lemon juice - 1 tablespoon
- Vanilla yogurt - 2 tbsp
Step by step preparation of popsicles:
- Put all the fruit in a blender, add sugar, corn syrup and lemon juice. Beat everything until smooth.
- Pour yogurt into the fruit mass, beat everything again a couple of times. If you are low on sugar, add more to taste.
- Divide the finished mass into dessert tins and place in the freezer for at least 5 hours.
Popsicle ice cream at home comes out very tasty from vanilla yogurt with the addition of watermelon, melon and pineapple puree.
Strawberry ice cream
Summer is ice cream and strawberry season. It is not surprising that by combining these two delicacies, you can get a very tasty and aromatic dessert. Strawberry homemade ice cream is made from condensed milk with the addition of cream, and puree from fresh berries gives it color and an unforgettable aroma.
Ingredients:
- Cream (33%) - 500 ml
- Condensed milk - 100 ml
- Powdered sugar - 2 tablespoons
- Fresh strawberries - 300 g
How to make strawberry ice cream step by step:
- Wash the berries, dry, remove the tails. Put them in a blender, add the powdered sugar and whisk everything until smooth.
- Separate 200 ml from the resulting mass.
- Whip the pre-cooled heavy cream with a mixer until thick.
- In the process of whipping, pour condensed milk into the creamy mass, then gradually add strawberry puree with constant whipping. Whisk everything until smooth.
- Pour the mass into molds and place them in the freezer until they solidify.
Homemade strawberry ice cream contains no milk, so it does not need to be constantly stirred during freezing. The dessert comes out very tasty and appetizing.
Banana ice cream
Home-made banana ice cream comes out very useful, because it uses kefir, in addition to fruit, and there is absolutely no sugar. It is replaced by natural bee honey. Simple homemade ice cream according to this recipe can easily be prepared by a novice cook and even a child.
Ingredients:
- Kefir - 300 g
- Banana - 3 pcs.
- Honey - to taste
- Natural vanilla - 1/4 pod
How to make banana ice cream step by step:
- Peel the fruit, cut into small pieces, put them in a blender bowl.
- Pour kefir into the banana puree and add the vanilla seeds from the pod. Whisk everything until smooth.
- Pour enough honey into the mixture, mix everything again.
- Put the mass in an ice cream maker and cook according to the instructions.
- If you don't have an ice cream maker, transfer the mixture to a mold and place in the freezer for 2 hours.
- Place a lightly grabbed ice cream in a blender bowl, beat thoroughly. Place the mixed mixture back in the freezer for 2.5 hours. So repeat 3 times so that no ice chunks appear in the dessert.
Homemade banana ice cream is very popular with kids and can be served with banana wedges or sprinkled with various toppings.
Chocolate ice cream
Homemade chocolate ice cream is prepared from milk with a lot of yolks. It is better to take exclusively black chocolate; it is important to pay special attention to cooking the egg mixture. Products must be of high quality and fresh. It is better to take milk with a high percentage of fat content. Knowing how to make your own homemade ice cream from dark chocolate, you will be able to prepare a dessert from milk or white in the future, although its aroma and taste will be less intense.
Ingredients:
- Black chocolate - 50 g
- Milk - 3 tbsp.
- Yolk - 4 pcs.
- Sugar - 200 g
Step by step preparation of chocolate ice cream:
- Grate the chocolate on a fine grater.
- Boil the milk, add chocolate chips to it, stir everything thoroughly. Remove the milk mass from the stove and cool it down.
- Beat egg yolks with sugar, gently add them to the chocolate mass.
- Put the mixture on the burner and boil until thickened with constant stirring. If the mixture is not stirred, the yolks will curdle and the dessert will not work.
- The mass is considered ready if you dip a spoon in it, then slide your finger over it, and after that a trace will remain on the spoon.
- Pour the homemade chocolate ice cream into plastic cups and place in the freezer for 2 hours.
Homemade milk and dark chocolate ice cream can be topped with chocolate icing, topping, chocolate chips, or garnished with a few fresh mint leaves.
