Homemade Icecream

[homegrown]

Does anyone have a great recipe for icecream just a base vanilla is fine I'm thinking of Cinnamon and orange, Beetroot and I also want to try a tomato come summer.

[Millymollymandy]

Is this with a machine or without? I've got a booklet of recipes with mine but this thread has reminded me to do a search for raspberry and yoghurt - rather than the silly and rather fattening 'pints' of double cream (which I can't get anyway) ones which come with the machine.

[grahamhobbs]

And anyone got a no or low sugar recipe?

[homegrown]

Its without a machine, I've got a good butterscotch liquer ice cream recipe but it seems a little to strong for the kids, so a low fat would be better/

[Millymollymandy]

I'm a right dumbo, I looked at all sorts of yog/rasp recipes on the net this morning (and why do American ones have to have things like CORNSTARCH whatever that may be in it as well as corn syrup AND sugar? Do they need to be so unhealthy even when making homemade youghurt ice cream? (apologies to all the American Ishers who probably don't eat this kind of crap). Anyway where was I? Yes, then I looked in my recipe booklet again and there was the exact low fat recipe I was looking for. Rasps, yoghurt, sugar, that's it.

I swear it was not there yesterday!!!!!

[homegrown]

Its the law of implied space, somethings only where you need it to be when your not looking for it.

this includes the following;

Pens, car keys, wallets, purses, handbags, recipes, love and.... side streets (well for men anyway)
how many times do you hear someone say "it wasn't there before"

and bag to subject, just made my first batch of homemade ice cream with coffee chocolate liquer

[Green Aura]

I have a great recipe for ice cream that should fit both Graham's low sugar and homegrown's low kids (? ) requirements.

It's a vegan recipe but I see no reason why you shouldn't substitute cow or a nut milk would be nice too.


1 litre soya milk
2 ripe bananas
200g dark chocolate (as dark as you like!)

Blitz the milk, bananas and half the chocolate to make a sort of smoothie. Grate or chop the other half of the chocolate (depending on how chunky you want it) and mix it in. Pour into ice cream maker and voila! Very tasty - even with soya milk

Amended - sorry I forgot - you're supposed to melt the first half of the chocolate before you bung it in!

[Millymollymandy]

Oh I forgot to say earlier - I made the best ice cream I've ever tasted in my life last night!

Raspberry Yoghurt Ice cream

250g rasps
100g caster sugar
300ml plain yog

Puree rasps then preferably pass through sieve to get the pips out - mix up with the yog and sugar. Chill then put in the machine.

The yog I used was supermarket mega cheap very bland stuff but the ice cream was AMAZING. So creamy and fruity and .... pink! You'd never know it was made with yoghurt either.

So thumbs up from me and it's low fat too.

I'm sure my ma in law will love it although if I told her in advance it had yoghurt in it she wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, I'll just be evil and tell her after she's hoovered up a bowlful and said yum. Oh I'm soooooo bad.

[battybird]

Has anyone got a recipe that does not use an ice cream machine??? I had a couple which you have to beat it regularly while its freezing? I think they were extremely unhealthy with double cream and crunchie bars or lemon curd and meringue!! if I can do it with better ingredients I might actually have a go! I had to hide the other recipes from myself as they were so bad for me!!