Simple Easy Ice Cream

Kevinpa · 05-22-2007, 02:05 PM

It takes me about 1 1/2 days to cut my grass from start to finish. Yesterday when I was done with the first half, I went into the kitchen only to find that somebody had eaten the last of the LC ice cream that I was going to use to cool off. (I'll never admit that it may have been me.....and I'm sticking to that story)

Anyhow, in need of a quick fix I made my quick berry mock ice cream like I have done before as follows:

1 cup mix frozen berries
1/4 cup sugarfree blackberry syrup
1/8 cup half/half or heavy cream

blend in blender or food processor.

As I sat there eating my treat and cooling down I started thinking how nice it would be to be able to do the same thing with vanilla or chocolate.

So last evening I did the following:

1 cup heavy cream
1 cup calorie countdown milk
6 T. polyd
6 T. sweetener (I used 12 drops sweetzfree)
2 tsp vanilla

Brought disolved ingredients to a boil in a non stick pan.
Then when it cooled I fill an ice cube tray with the liquid and froze over night.
2 cups just filled a 16 cube tray.

Today when I was cutting the second half of my yard I took:

8 cubes
1/4 cup vanilla davinci

blend in blender or food processor.

Shazammmmmmmm simple vanilla ice cream.

So easy and chocolate is just a bit of cocoa and CC chocolate milk away

vonnygirl · 05-22-2007, 02:40 PM

That looks amazing!!
The vanilla looks so creamy!
How much is that serving?
Thank you for sharing!

Kevinpa · 05-22-2007, 03:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vonnygirl

How much is that serving?
Thank you for sharing!

They are both 1 cup servings.

The berry understandably is higher in carbs because of the fruit 12 carbs for the bowl.

The vanilla is 6 carbs for the bowl.

magnamater · 05-22-2007, 03:06 PM

Out of curiosity, Kevin, what do you think of making a simple syrup out of the PDX, sugar sub. and water, say 1/2 cup. . .and making say 3 cups in proportion--(something like 1 cup PDX to 3 cups water plus sweetening, maybe some Not Sugar) keeping it in the 'fridge. . .then using 1 1/2 cups of cream, 1/2 cup simple syrup, and davinci's and freeze in the little ice cream freezer. . .

Hope you are following my train of thought. . .

I did something similar, but also added some Not Sugar. . .too. Twas yummy.

Oh, I also added powdered whole eggs and glycerine.

Sorry, I don't have proportions, as I was experimenting. . .

But DH said it tasted very similar to my Premium I had been making. . .a hybrid of BettyR's Premium. (using less PDX and some Not Sugar)

Tweaker Geek · 05-22-2007, 03:06 PM

Geez Kevin! How do you keep coming up with these great ideas? I'm gonna try the ice cube trick real soon. It's supposed to hit 80 degrees around here sometime this week and we all know there's nothing better than ice cream when it's hot!

Kevinpa · 05-22-2007, 03:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by magnamater

Out of curiosity, Kevin, what do you think of making a simple syrup out of the PDX, sugar sub. and water, say 1/2 cup. . .and making say 3 cups in proportion--(something like 1 cup PDX to 3 cups water plus sweetening, maybe some Not Sugar) keeping it in the 'fridge. . .then using 1 1/2 cups of cream, 1/2 cup simple syrup, and davinci's and freeze in the little ice cream freezer. . .

Hope you are following my train of thought. . .

I did something similar, but also added some Not Sugar. . .too. Twas yummy.

Oh, I also added powdered whole eggs and glycerine.

Sorry, I don't have proportions, as I was experimenting. . .

But DH said it tasted very similar to my Premium I had been making. . .a hybrid of BettyR's Premium. (using less PDX and some Not Sugar)

It sounds like it would work janie but I was shooting for simple here. So I could just keep a couple of trays frozen and make a bowl when I wanted....then no worries of it getting too hard.

I thought about trying the powdered eggs too because with those there is no need to cook it like you would have to if using regular eggs.

Cricket4t · 05-22-2007, 04:32 PM

Kevin,
I was reading a thread about ice cream a while back; I can’t for the life of me remember where; but someone mentioned that Polydextrose lowers the freezing point of the ice cream, which would keep it from getting brick hard in the freezer.

It’s still a ways off but we always have a big family get together on the 4th. We do a cook out, fireworks and homemade ice cream. I have an ice cream recipe that I really like, it’s a cooked custard, that I put together and let it age in the frig for a couple of days before we make the ice cream.

We use a large electric ice cream freezer and when it is finished churning we pack the cylinder down in rock salt and ice. The ice cream will stay scoop-able all day long in the ice and salt but any leftovers that go in the freezer turn into bricks. Do you have any idea if the addition of Polydextrose would keep it from doing that?

magnamater · 05-22-2007, 04:37 PM

Simple! LOL!

I still have coffee frozen in my ice trays from last July. . .I can definitely mess up simple!

Seriously, I do understand what you you are doing and have accomplished. . .and it would work for me too (after I throw out that coffee in my ice trays. . .)

Your title of the thread DOES state what you are doing! Duh! she says, as light bulb above head lights!

magnamater · 05-22-2007, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cricket4t

Kevin,
I was reading a thread about ice cream a while back; I can’t for the life of me remember where; but someone mentioned that Polydextrose lowers the freezing point of the ice cream, which would keep it from getting brick hard in the freezer.

It’s still a ways off but we always have a big family get together on the 4th. We do a cook out, fireworks and homemade ice cream. I have an ice cream recipe that I really like, it’s a cooked custard, that I put together and let it age in the frig for a couple of days before we make the ice cream.

We use a large electric ice cream freezer and when it is finished churning we pack the cylinder down in rock salt and ice. The ice cream will stay scoop-able all day long in the ice and salt but any leftovers that go in the freezer turn into bricks. Do you have any idea if the addition of Polydextrose would keep it from doing that?

I'm not Kevin, but in order to keep the ice cream from turning into bricks requires more PDX than my body will tolerate

. . .so I've been working with ThickNThin not Sugar and glycerine. . .with some success.

How big is your freezer? If it is a gallon. . .I would use:
2 cups PDX--divided over 32 servings. . .about one T. per serving
4 T. Not Sugar
4 teaspoons glycerine.

Do you use a custard recipe? or a no cook one.

Post your recipe!!!!!

We will try to help!

I need to perfect a recipe for the gallon ice cream freezer myself. . .I've been doing 1 1/2 quarts. . .or less.

Kevinpa · 05-22-2007, 04:48 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by magnamater

Simple! LOL!

I still have coffee frozen in my ice trays from last July. . .I can definitely mess up simple!

Seriously, I do understand what you you are doing and have accomplished. . .and it would work for me too (after I throw out that coffee in my ice trays. . .)

Your title of the thread DOES state what you are doing! Duh! she says, as light bulb above head lights!

seriously I have tried so many combinations of ingredients trying to get the ultimate scoopable ice cream and the bottom line is I usually only serve 1 or 2 bowls at a time.....so this method seemed to make more sense....this way it doesn't matter how it freezes cause there is none left to freeze.....

Cricket4t · 05-22-2007, 07:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by magnamater

I'm not Kevin, but in order to keep the ice cream from turning into bricks requires more PDX than my body will tolerate

. . .so I've been working with ThickNThin not Sugar and glycerine. . .with some success.

How big is your freezer? If it is a gallon. . .I would use:
2 cups PDX--divided over 32 servings. . .about one T. per serving
4 T. Not Sugar
4 teaspoons glycerine.

Do you use a custard recipe? or a no cook one.

Post your recipe!!!!!

We will try to help!

I need to perfect a recipe for the gallon ice cream freezer myself. . .I've been doing 1 1/2 quarts. . .or less.

My freezer is 1-1/2 gallons. This is my recipe, I had to take the time to type it up, it's an old one that I hadn't taken the time to put into my computer yet.

Vanilla Ice Cream

2 quarts of half and half
6 large egg yolks
4 cups sugar
3 vanilla beans (I order these online)
3 cans evaporated milk (placed in the frig and chilled overnight)

In a large saucepan, over medium-high heat, bring the half-and-half and the vanilla beans to the scalding point. Remove from heat, take out the vanilla beans, split and scrape the seeds from the beans with the back of a knife, and mix the seeds back into the half-and-half.

Place the egg yolks into a blender and turn on the blender. Gradually pour enough of the scalding half-and-half into the egg yolks to fill the blender about half to two thirds the way up; blend till smooth. While whisking pour the egg mixture back into the saucepan and add the sugar.

Over low heat cook and stir until the custard reaches 170°; remove the custard from the heat and continue to stir the custard for a few minutes so it does not overcook. Cover and let cool to room temperature and then refrigerate the custard until it is completely cold (I let it ripen for at least 24 hours).

Transfer the cold custard to the chilled container of your ice cream machine and add enough of the chilled evaporated milk to fill your ice cream machine about half to two thirds full. This is so the custard has enough room to expand while it freezes so you end up with an ice cream with a light texture.

babydollsea · 05-23-2007, 03:07 AM

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Kevin!

I love ice cream and didn't want to have to give it up this Summer! I am going to make this today!

Marla

jackieba · 05-23-2007, 06:19 AM

I've been wanting to make your erythritol ice cream but was afraid we'd eat the whole thing at one sitting. I'm now going to start this one today. How does the texture compare?

Kevinpa · 05-23-2007, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jackieba

I've been wanting to make your erythritol ice cream but was afraid we'd eat the whole thing at one sitting. I'm now going to start this one today. How does the texture compare?

Its just like ice cream when it comes out of the machine....soft serve-like.

I have some coffee flavor cubes freezing right now.

Tweaker Geek · 05-23-2007, 04:36 PM

How'd the coffee ice cream come out Kevin? I really like coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over it - yum!

Kevinpa · 05-23-2007, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tweaker Geek

How'd the coffee ice cream come out Kevin? I really like coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over it - yum!

I didn't plan on trying it until tomorrow tweak. I already had vanilla with my cake a little earlier.

Tweaker Geek · 05-23-2007, 05:25 PM

OK - I can wait!

marnie4949 · 05-23-2007, 06:16 PM

Love your ice cream ideas Kevin! By the way, I see "Happy Birthday" greetings are in order, so I hope you have a good one!!

Kevinpa · 05-23-2007, 06:25 PM

thank you marnie.

Tweaker Geek · 05-23-2007, 07:23 PM

Kevin! I hadn't noticed that! Hope you had a great day!

What kind of birthday cake went with the ice cream? I've been thinking about the coffee ice cream and having it with your chocolate cake with a mocha icing. Yum!

Kevinpa · 05-23-2007, 07:39 PM

I made my chocolate cake in a bag with whipped cream icing. It was a nice quiet day spent playing with my new professional model food saver with all the accessories that I bought myself as a present.

Kisal · 05-23-2007, 08:02 PM

[COLOR="Red"]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN![/COLOR]

sungoddess · 05-24-2007, 05:12 PM

Oh I want to wish you a happy birthday too!!

jlatislaw · 05-24-2007, 05:50 PM

Happy Birthday, Kevin!

I just re-read the story of your LC life. Fascinating. The little slide show of pets - are they all yours? Love the first little dog! What is it's breed? (they're all cute as can be!)

Tweaker Geek · 05-24-2007, 05:51 PM

I don't see an update on the coffee ice cream Kevin - was it a success?
That's the chocolate cake I'm talking about too, it's the best!

Kevinpa · 05-24-2007, 05:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tweaker Geek

How'd the coffee ice cream come out Kevin? I really like coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over it - yum!

1 cup heavy cream
1 cup calorie countdown milk
6 T. polyd
6 T. sweetener (I used 12 drops sweetzfree)
1/2 tsp vanilla
3 heaping tsp. instant coffee

Brought disolved ingredients to a boil in a non stick pan.
Then when it cooled I fill an ice cube tray with the liquid and froze over night.

8 cubes
1/4 cup hazelnut davinci
cacao nibs

blend in blender or food processor.

Hazelnut Coffee Ice cream w/cacao nib sprinkles

Bfranke · 05-24-2007, 06:19 PM

Yum!!!

Tweaker Geek · 05-24-2007, 06:59 PM

Thanks so much, Kevin. I'll be trying that this weekend. Looks delish!

babydollsea · 05-25-2007, 03:03 AM

I missed your birthday!!! Happy belated birthday, Kevin

!!! I made your raspberry ice cream - soooooooo goooood! I am going to try your other recipes!

Thanks so much!!!!!

Marla

Nikki2777 · 05-25-2007, 04:21 PM

Kevin,
You'll probably laugh, but what is the name of your food processor? I'm looking for a smaller one.

I'm going to make your berry ice cream, but will use strawberries with strawberry syrup. Such a simple recipe... thanks!

Nikki

05-22-2007, 02:05 PM	#1
Kevinpa Guest Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 5,575 Gallery: Kevinpa Stats: 230/160/165 WOE: Low Carb Maintenance Start Date: May 2005	Simple Easy Ice Cream It takes me about 1 1/2 days to cut my grass from start to finish. Yesterday when I was done with the first half, I went into the kitchen only to find that somebody had eaten the last of the LC ice cream that I was going to use to cool off. (I'll never admit that it may have been me.....and I'm sticking to that story) Anyhow, in need of a quick fix I made my quick berry mock ice cream like I have done before as follows: 1 cup mix frozen berries 1/4 cup sugarfree blackberry syrup 1/8 cup half/half or heavy cream blend in blender or food processor. As I sat there eating my treat and cooling down I started thinking how nice it would be to be able to do the same thing with vanilla or chocolate. So last evening I did the following: 1 cup heavy cream 1 cup calorie countdown milk 6 T. polyd 6 T. sweetener (I used 12 drops sweetzfree) 2 tsp vanilla Brought disolved ingredients to a boil in a non stick pan. Then when it cooled I fill an ice cube tray with the liquid and froze over night. 2 cups just filled a 16 cube tray. Today when I was cutting the second half of my yard I took: 8 cubes 1/4 cup vanilla davinci blend in blender or food processor. Shazammmmmmmm simple vanilla ice cream. So easy and chocolate is just a bit of cocoa and CC chocolate milk away

05-22-2007, 03:06 PM	#4
magnamater Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 3,064 Gallery: magnamater	Out of curiosity, Kevin, what do you think of making a simple syrup out of the PDX, sugar sub. and water, say 1/2 cup. . .and making say 3 cups in proportion--(something like 1 cup PDX to 3 cups water plus sweetening, maybe some Not Sugar) keeping it in the 'fridge. . .then using 1 1/2 cups of cream, 1/2 cup simple syrup, and davinci's and freeze in the little ice cream freezer. . . Hope you are following my train of thought. . . I did something similar, but also added some Not Sugar. . .too. Twas yummy. Oh, I also added powdered whole eggs and glycerine. Sorry, I don't have proportions, as I was experimenting. . . But DH said it tasted very similar to my Premium I had been making. . .a hybrid of BettyR's Premium. (using less PDX and some Not Sugar) Last edited by magnamater; 05-22-2007 at 03:09 PM.. Reason: further explanation

05-22-2007, 04:32 PM	#7
Cricket4t Senior LCF Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Texas Gulf Coast Posts: 272 Gallery: Cricket4t Stats: 285/200/160 WOE: Started with Atkins/Swithched to Caveman-Type Start Date: May 3, 2007	Kevin, I was reading a thread about ice cream a while back; I can’t for the life of me remember where; but someone mentioned that Polydextrose lowers the freezing point of the ice cream, which would keep it from getting brick hard in the freezer. It’s still a ways off but we always have a big family get together on the 4th. We do a cook out, fireworks and homemade ice cream. I have an ice cream recipe that I really like, it’s a cooked custard, that I put together and let it age in the frig for a couple of days before we make the ice cream. We use a large electric ice cream freezer and when it is finished churning we pack the cylinder down in rock salt and ice. The ice cream will stay scoop-able all day long in the ice and salt but any leftovers that go in the freezer turn into bricks. Do you have any idea if the addition of Polydextrose would keep it from doing that? __________________ "If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went." -Will Rogers

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05-22-2007, 02:40 PM	#2
vonnygirl Senior LCF Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Corbett, Or Posts: 307 Gallery: vonnygirl Stats: 237.5/181.5/165 WOE: OWL Start Date: 6/06 with a couple of pauses......	That looks amazing!! The vanilla looks so creamy! How much is that serving? Thank you for sharing!

05-22-2007, 03:06 PM	#5
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	Geez Kevin! How do you keep coming up with these great ideas? I'm gonna try the ice cube trick real soon. It's supposed to hit 80 degrees around here sometime this week and we all know there's nothing better than ice cream when it's hot!

05-22-2007, 04:37 PM	#8
magnamater Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Texas Posts: 3,064 Gallery: magnamater	Simple! LOL! I still have coffee frozen in my ice trays from last July. . .I can definitely mess up simple! Seriously, I do understand what you you are doing and have accomplished. . .and it would work for me too (after I throw out that coffee in my ice trays. . .) Your title of the thread DOES state what you are doing! Duh! she says, as light bulb above head lights!

05-23-2007, 03:07 AM	#12
babydollsea Senior LCF Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 411 Gallery: babydollsea WOE: Moderate carbs	THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, Kevin! I love ice cream and didn't want to have to give it up this Summer! I am going to make this today! Marla

05-23-2007, 06:19 AM	#13
jackieba MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Tennessee Posts: 1,360 Gallery: jackieba WOE: Atkins Start Date: October 2005	I've been wanting to make your erythritol ice cream but was afraid we'd eat the whole thing at one sitting. I'm now going to start this one today. How does the texture compare?

05-23-2007, 04:36 PM	#15
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	How'd the coffee ice cream come out Kevin? I really like coffee ice cream with chocolate sauce poured over it - yum!

05-23-2007, 05:25 PM	#17
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	OK - I can wait!

05-23-2007, 06:16 PM	#18
marnie4949 Senior LCF Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: North Pole, Alaska Posts: 160 Gallery: marnie4949 Stats: 270/210/140 WOE: Atkins Start Date: 1960 - in it for life!	Love your ice cream ideas Kevin! By the way, I see "Happy Birthday" greetings are in order, so I hope you have a good one!!

05-23-2007, 06:25 PM	#19
Kevinpa Guest Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 5,575 Gallery: Kevinpa Stats: 230/160/165 WOE: Low Carb Maintenance Start Date: May 2005	thank you marnie.

05-23-2007, 07:23 PM	#20
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	Kevin! I hadn't noticed that! Hope you had a great day! What kind of birthday cake went with the ice cream? I've been thinking about the coffee ice cream and having it with your chocolate cake with a mocha icing. Yum!

05-23-2007, 07:39 PM	#21
Kevinpa Guest Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 5,575 Gallery: Kevinpa Stats: 230/160/165 WOE: Low Carb Maintenance Start Date: May 2005	I made my chocolate cake in a bag with whipped cream icing. It was a nice quiet day spent playing with my new professional model food saver with all the accessories that I bought myself as a present.

05-23-2007, 08:02 PM	#22
Kisal Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Oregon Posts: 1,566 Gallery: Kisal WOE: Basic low carb Start Date: October 15, 2004	[COLOR="Red"]HAPPY BIRTHDAY, KEVIN![/COLOR]

05-24-2007, 05:12 PM	#23
sungoddess Very Gabby LCF Member!!! Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 3,172 Gallery: sungoddess WOE: Perfect Health Diet/JUDDD Start Date: LC;HCG; 1/19/12/JUDDD; 1/13/13 PHD/JUDDD	Oh I want to wish you a happy birthday too!!

05-24-2007, 05:50 PM	#24
jlatislaw Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: SW Mich Posts: 1,497 Gallery: jlatislaw WOE: JUDDD Start Date: June 18, 2012	Happy Birthday, Kevin! I just re-read the story of your LC life. Fascinating. The little slide show of pets - are they all yours? Love the first little dog! What is it's breed? (they're all cute as can be!)

05-24-2007, 05:51 PM	#25
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	I don't see an update on the coffee ice cream Kevin - was it a success? That's the chocolate cake I'm talking about too, it's the best!

05-24-2007, 06:19 PM	#27
Bfranke MAJOR LCF POSTER! Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Michigan Posts: 1,921 Gallery: Bfranke Stats: 177.5/139.5/117.5 WOE: Modified Atkins/Exercise Start Date: 12/26/05	Yum!!!

05-24-2007, 06:59 PM	#28
Tweaker Geek Major LCF Poster! Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 2,784 Gallery: Tweaker Geek	Thanks so much, Kevin. I'll be trying that this weekend. Looks delish!

05-25-2007, 03:03 AM	#29
babydollsea Senior LCF Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Pittsburgh Posts: 411 Gallery: babydollsea WOE: Moderate carbs	I missed your birthday!!! Happy belated birthday, Kevin !!! I made your raspberry ice cream - soooooooo goooood! I am going to try your other recipes! Thanks so much!!!!! Marla

05-25-2007, 04:21 PM	#30
Nikki2777 Senior LCF Member Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: USA Posts: 582 Gallery: Nikki2777	Kevin, You'll probably laugh, but what is the name of your food processor? I'm looking for a smaller one. I'm going to make your berry ice cream, but will use strawberries with strawberry syrup. Such a simple recipe... thanks! Nikki