When my oldest two were little, like 2 and 3, I had an ice cream maker that attached to my “kitchen center”. I don’t know if they even make those anymore. You had the base that sat on the counter, and you changed the top for what you needed, blender, food processor, ice cream maker. Seems like they had more attachemnts available, too.
Anyway, we loved making homemade ice cream. Fast forward about 23 years, and I bought a 4-Quart Automatic Ice-Cream Maker
We’ve settled on a family favorite, Vanilla! While some like chocolate better, we are satisfied to top our vanilla ice cream with homemade chocolate sauce. That way, we only have to make one batch of ice cream, instead of two for a snack or desert.
Not that my family would mind having two flavors at once. 🙂  But since it takes about an hour to churn, it is much more practical to only make one flavor. Not to mention the ice. The only ice maker we have is me. lol And that would be a lot of ice to make two batches in one day. lol
So, here’s the recipe that I use for Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream:
4 1/2 cups heavy cream
4 1/2 cups whole milk
3 cups sugar
2 tablespoons vanilla extract (real, not imitation)
You can use more cream and less milk or more milk and less cream, according to your taste.
Follow the freezing directions with your ice cream maker.
There’s no ice cream better than homemade!
Anybody else make homemade ice cream? I’m not the only one, am I?
