Homemade Icecream! July 14, 2019 11:03 1 Comment
This week I decided to make homemade ice-cream. Mango sorbet for the kids and stem ginger for Mr Craft Club. This plan was sparked when I discovered an untested ice-cream maker that I was given at least seven years ago, whilst undertaking a massive kitchen reorganisation.
Everyone at home got very excited about the epic organic handmade amazing ice-cream that was about to appear, and we spent ages pureeing fruit and mixing our various flavoured gunges in readiness. When the ice bowl was sufficiently frozen, we whipped it out, poured our chilled gunge in and set the thing churning.
Disaster.
It did not, in any remote way, freeze. Not even to slush. So in the absence of a cool homemade ice-cream to show you, here are some ice lolly recipes that might just work. I wish you better luck than we had!
Slightly overly virtuous lolly recipe selection...
This one is for Zoe, it's a bit like a bubble tea pop
For me, the most important bit! Where to get great lolly moulds
Not a cook? Check out our craft workshops instead, they're way more fun and likely to work too.
Comments
cfalconer on July 15, 2019 15:33
As a home ice cream making of several years, may I offer the following:
- if the maker is one where you have to have the bowl cold, and then it rotates with a paddle to mix everything (which it sounds like), keep the bowl in the freezer all the time. I keep the bag of frozen peas in it so it doesn’t take up too much room
- all the other ingredients need to be as cold as possible too
- did you overfill the bowl? It needs contact with the sides to be able to freeze
- I use the posh ready made fresh custard and then add random ingredients
- it does take a good 20 mins before coming together, and the tone of the motor changes. If you want to have a ripple effect or you’re adding last minute nuts / chocolate / fruit – do it now and then pause and switch off
- alcohol heavy ice creams will never freeze of course
I do have a really good recipe book which I can’t remember the name of, and had to get second hand, but if you want, I can send it on.