Home made ice cream!

The simplest way to make home made ice cream is nothing but a matter of getting the ratio correct! I decided to whip up a tub of apricot ice cream for the weekend. In the picture: A generous serving of apricot ice cream over Darjeeling tea jelly. I froze green apples in the jelly for some added crunch. Yum! 

Ingredients:

1) 1 cup fresh cream( I used Amul)
2) 1/4 cup condensed milk
3) Fruits and other items for flavoring, as per taste ( I used half a can of fresh apricots). Make sure that there are not too many fruits! The mixture will become runny and difficult to freeze.

Recipe:

1) Simply whisk the cream and condensed milk together. The 4:1 cream to condensed milk ratio is important,
2) In a steel bowl keep the fruits and cover with the cream, condensed milk mixture. Store in the freezer for 5-10 hours. Let it freeze completely( Ice hard!).
3) Scrape the frozen mixture into a blender and blitz on high speed. Put it back into the freezer, again. Repeat this process a few times with an hour interval, until you have the ice creamy texture.

Consume the ice cream quickly as it starts losing its creamy texture, in a few days. I have tried interesting flavors ranging from an espresso ice cream, banana and nuts, tender coconut, apple and cinnamon, mint and choco chips(add the chips after the final blitz) etc! You can use your market bought Vanilla essence to make a wonderful vanilla ice cream. Have fun! 

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