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Making your own ice cream without an ice cream maker is child’s play with these basic ingredients
Whether strawberry or chocolate: there are no limits to your ice cream creations
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What would summer be without ice cream? We’ll tell you how you can reinterpret the frozen dessert with just a few ingredients.
Did you know that each of us consumed around 8.7 liters of ice cream in the summer of 2018? The most popular varieties still include classics such as vanilla, strawberry and chocolate. There are far more options for creating extraordinary ice cream flavors yourself. And all without an ice cream maker. We’ll tell you the most important ingredients and present you with a delicious recipe that also works without animal products.
Basic recipe: These are the most important ingredients
If you want to make your own ice cream, you have the great advantage of knowing exactly what ingredients were used. This is particularly important for allergy sufferers or people with food intolerance such as lactose intolerance. You can also use regional and seasonal products – from controlled organic farming.
Ingredients for a classic dairy ice cream
(makes approx. half a liter of ice cream):
- 250 milliliters of cream
- 250 milliliters of milk
- 150 grams of sugar
- 4 egg yolks
The dairy products can of course also be replaced with vegan coconut, almond or soy milk. To bind the mass, locust bean gum or coconut flour are a good alternative to eggs.
The preparation:
In the first step, cream, milk and sugar are heated in a saucepan – not boiled! The egg yolk is then whisked and slowly poured into the pot while stirring. Last but not least, the ice cream mixture is stirred and heated until the desired consistency is achieved. Once the mixture has cooled completely, it must be placed in a bowl or Ice mold in the freezer for several hours.
Tip: To make the ice cream even more melt-in-your-mouth, it should be stirred once after the first hour in the freezer when the mixture has thawed, and then every half hour thereafter (approx. four to six times).
Homemade Snickers ice cream is creamy and crunchy at the same time
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Make your own Snickers ice cream: the recipe
The ingredients (make about four portions of ice cream):
- 3 Snickers bars (50 grams each)
- 350 milliliters of milk
- 200 milliliters of cream
- 100 grams sugar (or honey)
- 100 grams of peanuts
- 3 egg yolks (size M)
- 1 teaspoon vanilla (flavoring)
The preparation:
- Place the chocolate bars in the fridge for a few hours first as they will be easier to handle once they have hardened. Now chop up two of the bars and slowly dissolve the pieces in the warmed milk, stirring constantly.
- Whisk the egg yolks, sugar and vanilla flavor together until a foamy mixture is formed – this is then stirred into the milk. The amount of ice cream should then be carefully heated again to approx. 75 to 80°C.
- Whip the cream until stiff and fold it into the now cooled cream. Now fill these into the desired shape – alternatives are also suitable Ice cream molds with sticks – and put it in the freezer for 60 minutes.
- Stir the milk ice cream and repeat the process every 30 minutes. This makes the ice cream particularly creamy. As soon as the first ice crystals form in the dessert, you can stir the peanuts and the third chopped bar into the portion.
Tip: Save some nuts and Snickers pieces to garnish the ice cream!
You can find even more ideas for homemade ice cream in this one, for example Recipe book.
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