This Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream is so sweet and creamy. There is nothing like cold homemade ice cream on a hot day summer day.
This Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream is the best! I recently got a new ice cream maker and have been making ice cream non-stop for the last 2 weeks. We have been experimenting with so many different recipes for vanilla ice cream and finally found one that we LOVE. It is a great base recipe and it is easy to add any kind of mix-in that you would like. The recipe is one I adapted from the Food Network (I wish I could take credit for it but I can’t).
Ingredients
- 2 c. half-and-half
- 1 c. whipping cream
- 1 3/4 c. + 2 Tbsp. sugar
- 2 Tbsp. peach preserves not jelly
- 1 vanilla bean split and scraped
Instructions
- Combine all ingredients (including the bean and its pulp) in a large saucepan and place over medium heat. Bring the mixture just barely to a simmer. As soon as you see a bubble hit the surface, remove it from the heat (do not let it boil) and allow to cool slightly. Remove the hull of the vanilla bean, pour mixture into lidded container and refrigerate mixture overnight to mellow flavors and texture.
- Mix ice cream in ice cream maker* according to unit's instructions. The mixture will not freeze hard in the machine. Once the volume has increased by 1/2 to 3/4 times, and reached a soft serve consistency, spoon the mixture back into a lidded container and harden in the freezer at least 1 hour before serving (we did ours overnight and it was perfect).
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denise says
July 16, 2012 at 4:09 pmany ideas who how many cups this makes and if it doubles well?? I want to make it for a family reunion and there will be 19 people there. Does the ice cream taste like peach at all? I see the peach preserves in it and got curious. Let me know! Love your website, you are all so talented!
Erica says
July 16, 2012 at 7:02 pmIt probably makes about 3 cups worth of ice cream. The ice cream itself doesn’t taste like peach. It only does it you bite right into one of the peach preserves. You can blend the preserves up in a food processor and it won’t taste like peach at all. Thanks for the nice comment! Let me know how it turns out!
ginny frechette says
May 7, 2014 at 5:47 amcan you give us some idea of the proportions to use for other flavored add ins
Emily says
May 7, 2014 at 10:13 pmYou could mix in fruit or candy to taste. I would do it individually, like toppings. There’s no right or wrong way or set amount. 🙂