
Difficulty level: Easy
Home made ice-cream is always a delight. This easy, luxuriously creamy and delicious recipe that comes together in minutes is sure to impress! A perfect compliment to your coffee for a fabulous Affogato; an ideal pairing for an apple pie; even simple scoops in a bowl topped with roasted peanuts – yum and yum.
Now, the amazing part about this dish is that it requires only three ingredients and about 5 minutes of your time (plus six hours in the freezer).
Enjoy the basic vanilla recipe or develop a signature ice-cream flavour all of your own!
You can mix in nuts, fruit, Oreo cookie bits or chocolate chunks. Experiment and have fun!
Recipe
- 1 can of sweetened condensed milk (14oz)
- 2 cups of heavy cream (35%)
- a teaspoon of vanilla extract
- place the container you will store your finished ice-cream in the freezer
- in a large bowl mix vanilla and condensed milk; set aside
- with a mixer whip the heavy cream to stiff-peaks, but do not overmix!
- fold 1 cup of whipped cream into the condensed milk mixture to loosen
- fold in the remaining whipped cream
- quickly transfer the mixture to your cold storage container and return to the freezer for about 6 hours until firm.
Tips
- This ice-cream disappears fast, so I would advise make a double batch right of the bat! 🙂
- The ice-cream thaws quicker than store bought ice-cream, so take it out of the freezer just a couple of minutes before serving and then promptly return to the freezer to avoid thawing it too much.
- Place the container that you will use to store your ice-cream in a freezer ahead of time to ensure it is as cool as possible when you add the mixture.
- If you prefer your ice-cream less sweet, reduce the amount of condensed milk by a third and add a couple of two tablespoons of a flvour (ex: expresso powder or your favourite booze)
Mistakes to avoid
- Don’t be tempted to skip the folding step – it requires a bit of patience and care, but crucial to achieving that wonderful consistency. If you whip condensed milk with the cream, you will reduce the air content in the ice-cream and make it unpleasantly dense.