Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe

Total Time: 1 hr 20 mins Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• 3 cups fresh ripe strawberries, stemmed and sliced
• 4 tablespoons lemon juice
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 cups whole milk (i used skim because it is what we had on hand)
• 2 3/4 cups heavy cream
• 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Recipe

• 1 combine strawberries, lemon juice, and 1/2 cup of sugar in a bowl and stir. allow to sit for up to 2 hours.
• 2 strain berries and reserve the juices.
• 3 puree half the berries.
• 4 in a medium bowl mix milk and remaining sugar until sugar is dissolved. stir in heavy cream, leftover juice from the berry mixture, vanilla, and mashed strawberries.
• 5 turn on cuisinart ice cream machine and pour mixture into the frozen freezer bowl for about 20 minutes.
• 6 add the rest of the strawberries and mix for another 5 minutes.
• 7 note:.
• 8 the ice cream will be very soft and creamy. we transferred ours to a container and stuck it in the freezer for about an hour to thicken it up a little the way we like it.
• 9 i am looking forward to trying out some other new ice cream recipes now that i see just how easy it is to do! in fact, i have a container of blueberries in the kitchen that i think would be great in ice cream too!