Summer time is when we attend a variety of family dinners–Memorial Day, 4th of July, Labor Day. One thing they all have in common is a gallon of homemade ice cream. My father in law was charged with making this, but in recent years he hadn’t been able to whip up a batch for us. When my mother in law asked what we wanted for a family dinner, I immediately suggested homemade ice cream. Everyone chimed in about how much they wanted ice cream and somehow I was commandeered to make it. Everyone had an opinion on the flavor they wanted.
“I want peach!”
“No, I want strawberry!”
“Make vanilla!”
“No chocolate!”
Since no one could agree, I decided to make the flavor I wanted. To the ice cream maker goes the spoils. This ice cream is amazing, tastes just like gourmet, and takes some time to make. The flavor sensation is worth the trouble of making the caramel sauce. I found this recipe on Serious Eats, but didn’t follow it exactly. It still turned out well, but this is a very soft ice cream. It needs to be placed in the freezer several hours after preparation for firmness. We ate it for dessert immediately and it melted pretty quickly. The caramel base can burn quickly so it needs to be watched constantly. This recipe is not one I would put on my everyday menu (too much work!), but it is perfect for special summer events. Here’s how to make it:
You need:
- 1 3/4 cups heavy cream, at room temperature
- 3/4 cup granulated sugar
- 3/4 cup whole milk
- 1 teaspoon kosher salt
- 5 large egg yolks
To Make the Ice Cream:
Before you begin: whisk the egg yolks until beaten. Stir in 1/4 cup sugar. Set the egg mixture aside. Then spread 1/2 cup sugar in a heavy saucepan over medium heat. Allow the sugar to turn into a liquid, stirring constantly, until the sugar is a dark brown color. When the sugar turns the color in the picture above, remove the pan from the heat and immediately pour the cream slowly into the pan. Stir until the mixture is completely smooth.
Add the milk and salt, stirring constantly until well blended. Place the pan over medium-high heat. As soon as the milk mixture begins to simmer, reduce the heat to medium. Remove 1 cup of the milk mixture and add to the egg mixture, stirring constantly to make sure it is blended and no egg yolk piece remain. Slowly pour the egg mixture back into the milk mixture in the pan.
Continue to cook until mixture is thickened, between two and five minutes. Remove from heat and allow to cool. (At this point it is recommended to put the ice cream in the fridge for two hours to cool. I sat in the fridge until time to leave but it was no where near two hours. It still turned out fine, but maybe it would have been better if it had cooled the full two hours.)
Place in an ice cream freezer and freeze according to manufacturers directions. By this point, I turned the ice cream making over to the kids and let them handle the freezing. Eat immediately or place in the freezer for four hours to make a firmer ice cream. Makes one quart. This is supposed to keep for up to a week in the freezer, but with fifteen people it disappeared when we had dessert.
What is your favorite flavor of homemade ice cream?
This looks really great. I’ve never had gluten free icecream before. I may just have to give this a try. Thanks for the recipe.
Oh this sounds absolutely delicious! I love homemade ice cream! I haven’t tried a caramel flavor one before; that would be delicious!
Oh my gosh. That seems amazing.
That sounds so delicious. I love that it is homemade.
Oh man this looks amazing! I love anything with caramel in it and ice cream is one of my favorites.
Salted caramel sounds amazing! Looks like you did a perfect job too!
I love the sound of it! I will definitely have to make some of this yummy ice cream!
This sounds delicious! I love making homemade ice cream, but I usually stick to boring ol’ vanilla LOL
Oh wow. That looks SO good. I have an ice cream maker I need to brush off.
Yum! You make it look so easy to make too. I will have to give it a try.
Love carmel, this sounds yummy! Just had salted Caramel gelato last night!
My has always been vanilla but this sounds yummy!
Ooh, salted caramel ANYthing is OK in my book! I might have to dip pretzels in this.
I have never tried making homemade ice cream, unless you count snow cream, lol. I would love to try it one day, though.
Homemade ice cream is the best! I love anything with salted caramel too, I am going to have to make this!
Salted caramel ANYTHING gets my attention. This looks great.
Yum! I’ll have to give this recipe a try sometime.
Mine is normally vanilla… but this might be my new favorite flavor. It looks so good and is perfect for summer!
I can’t Do that much sugar but it looks really delicious. I hear home made ice cream is great
I have never made ice cream before. This looks so good!
I love homemade vanilla and strawberry ice creams. Now I want to try this one though. It looks so good!
Wow that looks incredibly delicious!!! I love anything with caramel.
I have never made homemade ice cream before. I seriously need to give this a shot!
I have an ice cream bowl for my Kitchen-aid mixer but we seldom make homemade ice cream. Maybe this summer with the girls getting more responsible, I’ll let them help more and we can start creating! The battles here are between peanut butter chocolate and chocolate chip mint.
My oldest son loves making ice cream and makes it about once a week for him and his brother. I will share this with him to see if it is a flavor they want to try.
I love love love salted caramel ice cream! Will definitely have to try this!
Oh my! I want to this ice cream right now! This sounds so yummy! Can’t wait to try it!
OMG this sounds so good and way easier then that other stuff i buy. I am so trying this over the weekend. Oh and chocolate is my favorite so i’ll take that recipe next.
This is an awesome flavor & I adore ice cream 🙂
It has been so long since I have had homemade Ice cream. My parents use to make it for us when we were kids (especially in the winter when they could take advantage of the below 0 temps). It was the best ice cream we had ever had. I think we pretty much went with vanilla back then.
This looks really good! I love homemade ice cream. Thanks for sharing!
Sounds delicious! Salted caramel is my favorite – definitely going to be making this during the summer.
Sounds Yummy To Me I Must Try Making Thank You!
I really need to get an ice cream maker…this looks delish and there are tons of other recipes I want to try, too! Thanks for sharing this one!
Oh yummy! I pretty much love salted caramel…everything! What a tasty idea! I like most ice cream flavors, but one of my favorites would be vanilla with caramel and chocolate in it! Yum!
My favorite has to be vanilla, but any flavor will do! I love icecream!
Wow! That look amazing!
Oh man…. that looks like trouble. I could eat a few batches of that!!!
Your recipe sounds delicious! Thanks for sharing :):)
Oh man, that sounds amazing. I am a big fan of just about any ice cream, but salted caramel sounds to die for!!
I can only imagine how good this is!! I have never made ice cream like this, but I know I am missing out, YUMMY!
Delicious!! This look so amazing! I’ll pin this page to keep around for those hot summer days! The kids will love it and so will the adults!
Me too! This is a must pin! And. .I have a gluten free board! Love these recipe ideas!
My grandfather used to make his own chocolate ice cream using the Jello pudding mix. Really turned out well!
Oh that looks good. I generally go with vanilla or strawberry 🙂
Oh my word, does that ever look deslish!