Family Recipe: Make Homemade Ice Cream

Making homemade ice cream is the best alternative for enjoy something great tasting and healthy for the whole family, since we know at all times what ingredients we are adding. We will not include stabilizers, preservatives, artificial flavors, unhealthy fats, or thickeners in our recipe since it is what we can find in our stores.

The homemade ice cream for that is more traditional and many of them do not have more than up to 3 ingredients to make them. Making them at home gives us the advantage of being able to substitute some unnecessary ingredient such as sugar or egg, or in some other cases add ingredients that we cannot find when buying them.

How to make homemade ice cream

There are several ways to make this delicious food. One of them is using the refrigerators that will facilitate the shake and its freezing. Using these devices we guarantee that the ice cream will come out much creamier, since it has been constantly beaten during its process and has managed to get air into it.

Other ways is to do them manually. We can mix the ingredients and put them in the freezer just like that. In this case, we can let the ice cream form directly or beat the mixture ourselves from time to time so that they end up being much creamier.

Another idea is to make ice cream in the ice cream molds. This technique is in fashion since we introduce fruit smoothies with their corresponding pieces or freeze the beaten fruit. It is another way to get children to eat fruit in a healthy way.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Recipe (Egg Free)

Ingredients:

• 150 ml water
• 160 ml of sugar
• 60 g of dark chocolate in pieces
• 3 tablespoons of pure cocoa
• 125 ml cream to assemble
• Oreo, coconut flavored, or chip cookie bits

Preparation:

1. In a saucepan we put to heat the water with the sugar and stir until it dissolves.
2. We add cocoa powder and we let it boil slowly for 2 minutes without stopping to stir.
3. We remove the saucepan from the fire and pour our chocolate, We turn the mixture so that it melts with the heat.
4. We put it in the fridge to cool down, it will be about an hour.
5. We whip the cream It is firm and we add it to the chocolate mixture. We remove with care and with an enveloping movement so that the volume does not drop.
6. At this time we can add our cookie bits, We stir slowly and put it in a container that can go to the freezer. It should be around 3 to 4 hours for the ice cream to form.

Quick strawberry ice cream

In this case I have chosen strawberries but you can substitute this fruit for the flavor that you like the most.

Ingredients:

• 500 ml cream to assemble
• 175 g of sugar
• 2/3 cup mashed strawberries, pureed

Preparation:

1. We beat the cream until it is completely firm.
2. We add the sugar and mix it by hand.
3. Add the strawberry puree and mix again.
4. We put our mix in a container that can go to the freezer. We freeze for about 3 to 4 hours.

Ice creams or popsicles with fruits

These ice creams are more practical for children. It is a way of eating yogurt and fruit in a different way, although we know that for them to drink it cold is fun.

Ingredients: 

• 500 g of fruit, whichever we like the most
• 250 g of sweetened Greek yogurt

Preparation: 

1. We crush part of the fruit and we will leave another part of it to make pieces.
2. We mix with the Greek yogurt and put it in the small refrigerators.
3. We put it in the freezer until the ice creams are formed, about three hours.