I made ice cream!
You know what this is?
Home-made mint chocolate chip ice cream, puppies. And it's good! And most importantly: I don't have an ice cream machine, I made it using my KitchenAid, just on its own. (You can still do this even if you don't have a KitchenAid.) No salt or ice required!
The instructions to make ice cream without a machine are here. The minor changes I made were:
1) I used a base recipe that used cornstarch rather than eggs (cornstarch ice cream). There was no real reason to do this, I was just curious. I also used skim milk since it's what I had in the house, but I'm definitely interested to try this with whole milk or half-and-half.
2) Once it had thickened in the pot (although mine did require cooking at medium heat to thicken, even 15 minutes at low heat hadn't done anything), I mixed in mint extract rather than vanilla, and a bit of food coloring because I grew up with green mint chocolate chip ice cream and I've never really adjusted to white mint chocolate chip ice cream. Then I poured it into my metal KitchenAid mixing bowl.
3) I put it straight into the freezer rather than doing an ice bath (I didn't have any ice made) for about 30 minutes, then added the chocolate chips and beat it (using the regular KitchenAid beater, not the whisk) until smooth/mixed, then returned it to the freezer.
4) Every 45 minutes or so I took it out, used a spatula to scrape the frozen ice cream off the sides of the bowl, then used the KitchenAid to beat it on a 2-3 setting until there were no lumps, then I'd put it back into the freezer.
5) I'd say it was probably 4 or 4 1/2 hours until it was the right consistency for eating.
Honestly, I couldn't believe how easy it was! And yummy. ♥ I bought the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cookbook at a used bookstore for $1 years ago, and now I can't wait to start playing around with it. And Gavin is so excited - he went through the cookbook after we'd eaten our ice cream and picked out the first two he wants me to try making (peach ice cream, and chocolate peanut butter ice cream).
I'm also looking forward to trying cornstarch-based chocolate gelato and... wait for it... CANDIED BACON ICE CREAM. (I bet about half of you just recoiled in horror, and the other half thought, "Hell, I'd try it.")
Home-made mint chocolate chip ice cream, puppies. And it's good! And most importantly: I don't have an ice cream machine, I made it using my KitchenAid, just on its own. (You can still do this even if you don't have a KitchenAid.) No salt or ice required!
The instructions to make ice cream without a machine are here. The minor changes I made were:
1) I used a base recipe that used cornstarch rather than eggs (cornstarch ice cream). There was no real reason to do this, I was just curious. I also used skim milk since it's what I had in the house, but I'm definitely interested to try this with whole milk or half-and-half.
2) Once it had thickened in the pot (although mine did require cooking at medium heat to thicken, even 15 minutes at low heat hadn't done anything), I mixed in mint extract rather than vanilla, and a bit of food coloring because I grew up with green mint chocolate chip ice cream and I've never really adjusted to white mint chocolate chip ice cream. Then I poured it into my metal KitchenAid mixing bowl.
3) I put it straight into the freezer rather than doing an ice bath (I didn't have any ice made) for about 30 minutes, then added the chocolate chips and beat it (using the regular KitchenAid beater, not the whisk) until smooth/mixed, then returned it to the freezer.
4) Every 45 minutes or so I took it out, used a spatula to scrape the frozen ice cream off the sides of the bowl, then used the KitchenAid to beat it on a 2-3 setting until there were no lumps, then I'd put it back into the freezer.
5) I'd say it was probably 4 or 4 1/2 hours until it was the right consistency for eating.
Honestly, I couldn't believe how easy it was! And yummy. ♥ I bought the Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Cookbook at a used bookstore for $1 years ago, and now I can't wait to start playing around with it. And Gavin is so excited - he went through the cookbook after we'd eaten our ice cream and picked out the first two he wants me to try making (peach ice cream, and chocolate peanut butter ice cream).
I'm also looking forward to trying cornstarch-based chocolate gelato and... wait for it... CANDIED BACON ICE CREAM. (I bet about half of you just recoiled in horror, and the other half thought, "Hell, I'd try it.")