The abundance of juicy, sweet and incredibly attractive fruits allows you to cook the most popular children's delicacy - fruit ice cream, ice cream with berry jam, magnificent sorbet and frogurt. High-quality products and scrupulous cooking will give an incomparable homemade dessert, which can be pampered by adults and children (even the smallest).
Tasty treat
Home-made ice cream production is a fascinating activity for adults and children. Little helpers can be easily entrusted with washing the fruit, pitting, or mixing fruit stems with sugar. Joint preparation of cold treats perfectly brings generations together and fills children's everyday life with cognitive activities.
Homemade popsicles are often made from fresh juices and healthy smoothies with the addition of village milk, selected light cream, fresh eggs and sugar. The undoubted advantage of such a dessert is the ability to supplement it with coconut, caramel splashes or grated chocolate.
Sorbet
The most delicious ice cream, especially for children, is French light sorbet made from a ripe vitamin bomb - blackcurrant. Due to the lack of eggs and cream, cold desserts can be consumed by children, as well as by those who follow a diet.
To prepare the sorbet you will need:
- 600-700 g of fresh, carefully ground currants (or other berries);
- 200-280 g of sugar (depending on maturity and variety of berries);
- 150-170 ml of pure water;
- half a medium lemon;
- for an adult table, you can add 2 tbsp. tablespoons of berry liquor (it should be selected in accordance with the selected fruits, so that the confrontation of tastes does not work).
Berry gruel must be mixed with sugar and water until sugar is completely dissolved, so the structure of the ice cream will be uniform. Lemon must be thoroughly mashed in mashed potatoes with the addition of its zest. Liquor must be added as the final highlight, pouring in a thin stream and thoroughly mixing with the fruit and berry base.
You can prepare such a dessert with or without an ice cream maker, but then you will need a freezer and non-metallic dishes. For cooking in an ice cream maker, it is necessary to remember an important nuance. Before infusion of the fruit mixture, it must be well cooled. The mixture in the ice cream maker often brightens. This is due to oxygen saturation.
When preparing a cold treat without an ice cream maker, it is necessary to mix the mixture every half an hour or an hour, and after 5 hours, distribute it in containers and send it to the freezer.
Ice
Fruit ice is the most delicious ice cream that even a child can make personally. To prepare it you will need:
- 0.6 l of fruit juice (any fresh with pulp or smoothie):
- vanilla stick
- 200 g of sugar if the fruit is acidic.
Juice must be thoroughly mixed with sugar and vanilla chips, a homogeneous mixture must be poured into chilled molds. Frozen fruit ice cream will be 6-8 hours. After which it can be served to guests.
Strawberry
The most popular lady's treat is strawberry ice cream - light, aromatic and attractive. It cools perfectly in the summer heat and cheers up in inclement weather.
To make strawberry ice cream, you will need:
- 100-110 g of white sugar;
- 250-270 ml of selected cream;
- 250-270 ml of milk;
- 3 medium yolks;
- 2 cups (200g) of selected fresh strawberries (or frozen);
- a teaspoon of vanilla or creamy essence.
Cooking:
- Half the sugar must be mixed with strawberries. The mass needs to be put in the refrigerator for a couple of hours.
- In a separate deep bowl, mix sugar, milk and yolks. After which the mixture must be put on fire and, not bringing to a boil, dissolve the sugar. The milk mixture must be allowed to cool. Then it should be put in the refrigerator, it must be mixed every half hour, otherwise ice droplets will form in the middle layers.
- After cooling (about 3 hours), the milk mixture must be mixed with strawberry base and vanilla. That's all, homemade fruit ice cream is ready, it can be served to the table. Let the kids take the sample first if they have taken part in the preparation.
Cherry
Now we’ll tell you how to make homemade popsicles with almond crumbs. Best of all, this nut will be combined with a cherry (cherries or real cherries - every gourmet decides for himself).
To make cherry ice cream, you will need:
- 300-400 g of peeled cherries;
- 100-150 ml of high-quality milk;
- 220 ml of good low-fat cream (10%);
- 100-150 g of granulated sugar (honey is also welcome);
- 0.5 l of high-quality fatty cream (35%);
- 2 tbsp. tablespoons of Amaretto or another fragrant sweet liquor;
- 150 g chopped almonds.
Dessert preparation:
- Mix 10% cream with sugar and peeled (well-washed) cherries in a deep container.
- Next, this mixture must be put on fire and, not bringing to a boil, heated for about 15 minutes.
- During this time, the sugar will melt, and the cherry will soften well. After warming up, the mass must be cooled to room temperature. The cooled mixture should be ground with a blender to a homogeneous mass.
- With a thin stream, pour warm milk into the cherry mass, mix well and leave to cool in the refrigerator.
- Fat cream must be thoroughly whipped with a mixer (adjusting the speed of revolutions from the lowest to optimally intense). So the creamy mass will become airy and stable. Next, mix the cherry mass with cream and liquor, and then mix again with a blender. The final chord will be crushed aromatic almonds.
- Ice cream must be placed to cool in the refrigerator, regularly taking out for mixing. After 6-8 hours in the freezer, cherry ice cream is ready!
Blueberry ice cream
Finally, consider how to make another delicious ice cream. The main ingredient in this dessert is blueberries. This ice cream has a pleasant, refreshing taste.
To prepare, you will need:
• vanilla sugar - a teaspoon;
• cream (fatty) - a glass;
• blueberries (preferably fresh) - two glasses;
• cream 12% fat - 475 ml;
• condensed milk - 420 ml.
Cooking:
1. Rinse blueberries, put in a bowl, mash.
2. In a different container, mix the cream, condensed milk and vanilla.
3. Then put this mixture in the freezer. Every half hour, get it, mix it and put it there again. This must be done for five hours. Then add blueberries, mix and put in the freezer again for two hours, stirring every half hour. That's it, the dessert is ready.
Conclusion
Now you know what a fascinating pastime it is - home-made ice cream production. The process does not take much time, and the result will please both children and adults.