Hello friends! I scored some heavy whipping cream in the discount section when I went grocery shopping since it was soon to expire, so I used half of it to make actual whipped cream, and the other half to make homemade ice cream!
I made a simple vanilla ice cream, with five ingredients. The cream, coconut milk, cow milk, sugar, and vanilla extract.
Coconut milk has a high fat content, which can help it be more creamy.
So that was two cups of cream, one of cow milk, one can of coconut milk, a splash of vanilla (I measured with my heart on that one, lol), and a cup of sugar.
I started opening the coconut milk with my regular can opener and then thought, wait ...I shoulda used my triangle can opener, lol. Ah well, I didn't spill it.
So when you don't have an ice cream machine, that just means you need to remember to stir it periodically all day. Do this on a day where you aren't going out, because all day, lol. Online claims it's done in three hours but I have never had that happen, and I've made ice cream a few times. I started off checking it every half hour, and set timers.
I knew from past experience that half an hour intervals is actually too short, but I was trying a new trick that the Internet said using a glass or metal bowl, pre-chilled in the freezer, made it go faster:
In the past I had used plastic and didn't pre-chill it, so I thought, maybe that's why it took so much longer for me than the internet says it should? But no, lol. It still took all day to become frozen ice cream. So I started stirring less frequently.
If you let it go for too long, you'll start to get ice chunks (instead of it being really creamy), but in the early stages you can generally stir those back in.
Getting closer:
...And then I fell asleep. Ha!
It's ice cream now, albeit a little icy since I didn't stir it often enough at the end. It still tastes good though!
It's surprisingly easy to make your own ice cream, just as long as you remember to stir it! Plus you can avoid any ingredients you don't want or are allergic to and make it just how you like. One of these days I'll explore making chocolate fudge to stir in. That's my favorite ice cream flavor but it's pretty much unheard of in Colorado for some reason (I grew up eating it in New Jersey).
Thanks for reading and have a wonderful day! :)