This is by far the easiest most successful recipe that we have discovered and have played with, to make exciting variations that can suit any accompanying desert or even stand on its own as a desert.
What you need
- 500ml of 38% cream – whipped
- 1 can/jar of sweetened condensed milk
This is just the most basic ingredients to make single batch, but double is always better than single.
Whip the cream until it is stiff and forms peaks.
Add 1 can of condensed milk and mix it together.
Put it into a covered container in the freezer until frozen (normally at least 8 hours) and there you have it your own homemade basic ice cream.
Everybody will think it is store bought.
But then of course knowing us you have to change it up a bit to experiment with it.
Normally we make it double.
So we do 1 liter of cream
2 cans of condensed milk
To this we add some flavour depending on what we feel like enjoying. Here are a few ideas
- Vanilla essence for a fresh vanilla flavour.
- Sprinkles or otherwise known as hundreds and thousands – this gives the ice cream a nice colourful look, the kids love this.
- Crushed cookies.
- Chocolate chips – not to much as it can be a bit overwhelming if the chocolate chips are too big (you can always finally chop up a chocolate bar or two).
- Fine instant coffee powder (the coffee powder we first dissolve with some of the condensed milk before adding it to the cream) – this you have to measure by taste – depending on how strong you want the coffee flavour to be.
- Peppermint flavour drops – again according to your own taste (you can also add a bit of green food color and chocolate chips).
- Cocoa powder for a chocolate flavour.
The list is endless – you can really experiment until you have found the flavour that suits your need.
If we make one of the following variations, we substitute one can of condensed milk with one of the ingredients below. We make sure that our replacement is more or less the same volume as the can condensed milk.
- 1 can of Caramel (Dulce da Lech)
- 1 jar of blueberry or cherry pie filling
- 1 jar of jam
The most elaborate flavor we have made was Strawberry Cheesecake.
After mixing 1 liter of whipped cream and a can condensed milk. We added a container of cream cheese at least 25% fat – which we whipped beforehand. We added a jar of strawberry jam. We crushed some graham crackers and then also mixed it all together.
Like I said the sky is the limit so enjoy playing and experimenting.
It is worth noting that any fresh fruit you add will be icy. We have tried it and its not the most desirable outcome.
