Friday, January 9, 2009

Home made Vanilla Ice Cream without Ice cream machine

Ingredients

2 eggs
3/4 cup sugar
2 tablespoon cornstarch
1 cup milk
1 pink heavy whipping cream
pinch of salt
2 teaspoon vanilla

Directions

Using an electric mixer, beat the eggs for several minutes until thick and lemon colored.

Add 1 cup of milk and blend into the eggs.

Mix sugar and cornstarch in a large saucepan.

Add egg/milk mixture to the sugar and cornstarch.

Cook until thick (about 5 minutes) stirring constantly.

Allow the custard mixture to cool to room temperature.
When the custard is cool, put into a freezer-safe bowl.

Blend in cream and salt.

Freeze for 2 hours or until slushy.

Add 2 teaspoons vanilla.

Whip for 5 to 10 minutes with an electric mixer.

Return to freezer and finish freezing (several hours or overnight).


Variations

After you have whipped the ice cream, fold in 1 to 2 cups of fresh or frozen fruit, nuts and/or chocolate before returning the ice cream to the freezer to finish freezing.