Homemade ice cream is so varied that you can indulge yourself with completely different desserts every day. In the conditions of your own kitchen, it is possible to prepare both ice cream and low-fat popsicles, the recipe for any of them can be found in this article.
Healthy eating is more and more adherents, simple ice-cream makers for making a cold dessert are gaining popularity. Fear of preservatives makes even ice cream to be made at home, the recipe of which does not frighten complexity.
The basis of a good dessert are high-quality raw materials: milk, cream, eggs, berries and fruits. The natural thickener in homemade ice cream is yolks brewed with milk, although you can use potato starch, with confidence in its quality and the absence of frightening GMOs.
The most common ice cream recipe is ice cream, it always succeeds at home. To prepare it, you will need a glass of milk, half a liter of fat cream, a glass of sugar, 4-5 eggs. Boil milk, let it stand in a warm place. Separate the yolks from the proteins, put the proteins in the refrigerator, they will not be needed to prepare the ice cream.
Using a whisk or wooden spoon, grind the yolks with sugar until all the grains are dissolved. Pour hot milk into the pounded yolks in a thin stream, constantly stirring the mixture so that the yolks do not curl. Then put the mixture in a water bath, still warm, so that the yolks thicken, but do not curl. Usually, heating continues until the first bubble on the surface.
In another bowl, using a mixer, beat the cream until solid, mix them with the cooled custard mixture, send to the freezer for 4-6 hours or more. During freezing, mix ice cream several times. Before using the dessert, you need to get it out of the freezer half an hour before serving.
For those who love chocolate ice cream, you don’t need to look for a special recipe , just make changes to the composition of the ice cream . Replace 100 g of cream with a bar of dark chocolate, which melt in the microwave, add to the hot milk-egg mixture. Sugar should be taken 50 g less, since it is found in chocolate. Instead of chocolate bar, you can put 2 tablespoons of cocoa powder in the crushed eggs.
Those who avoid high-calorie dishes should prepare milk ice cream. You can use the ice cream recipe for it, but instead of cream, take two glasses of milk and add a tablespoon of potato starch to it. Then combine all the milk in a water bath with the yolks. Freeze the mixture in the freezer in the usual way with stirring half an hour after the start of freezing.
The ice cream recipe in an ice cream maker is easier and faster to implement, as it provides simultaneous cooling and constant stirring. The result is a homogeneous mass without ice crystals after 10-15 minutes. To ripen and seal the mass, the resulting ice cream must be put in the freezer for several hours. But this is not necessary, soft ice cream also has an excellent taste, children love it very much.
Before you put the finished ice cream from the ice cream maker into the freezer, you can add seasonal berries or chopped fruits to it. It’s even tastier - to make popsicles made from berries , making strawberries, raspberries, blackcurrants, soft fruits smoothies with a blender and milk. In an ice cream maker, a smoothie turns into a uniform airy mass of fruits and berries. Next, this ice cream needs to be frozen in small molds.
Whatever you take to make ice cream, the recipe can always be changed to your liking, it is not a dogma, but recommendations for creativity.