Be sure to click the pictures so see the flecks of vanilla bean!
I love ice cream and if I buy it, I go for Ben and Jerry’s. As a child one of my most favorite memories is eating ice cream with my grandparents after dinner. There is something about homemade vanilla ice cream that is just so amazing, especially this recipe. This recipe is so creamy, so delicious, once you have tasted this recipe you will want to make it all the time. …MMM so good!!! Make me do the Happy Dance! 🙂
All the flecks of vanilla bean, the rich egg yolks, heavy cream makes for a rich creamy custardy ice cream. All the egg yolks make this ice cream yellow color. Did you know that vanilla is the most popular flavor ice cream with chocolate as second?
July is National Ice Cream Month, in 1984; President Ronald Reagan designated July as National Ice Cream Month. The third Sunday of the month is National Ice Cream Day.
So let me show you how I make this homemade ultimate Vanilla Ice Cream!
Ingredients
1 cup whole milk
¾ cup caster (superfine) sugar
1 vanilla bean
Pinch of salt
2 cups cream
6 egg yolks
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
The recipe is easy but there are a lot of steps. Be sure to read the entire recipe and get organized before you start. The first thing I will tell you is, do not substitute any of the ingredients, especially the caster sugar. Caster sugar is very a very fine sugar and it does make a different. Use the highest fat heavy cream you can find.
Place the whole milk, sugar and salt in a small saucepan. Split the vanilla bean and scrape out the seed and add them to the milk. I reuse the vanilla bean pod by placing it into my bottle of pure vanilla extract or us it to make vanilla sugar.
Place the saucepan over high heat and bring the mil mixture to just under a boil. Remove from heat, cover the pot, set aside to infuse for an hour.
After an hour we are ready to make the ice cream. Make an ice bath using a large bowl and fill it with a little water and lots of ice cubes. Set a slightly smaller bowl in the ice bath and pour in the heavy cream. Place a strainer over the smaller bowl which will be used to strain the egg mixture.
In a separate, medium size heat proof bowl, whisk the egg yolks lightly. Slowly pout the infused milk into the yolks whisking the entire time until combined.
Place this bowl over a pot of simmering water, cook while constantly stirring until the mixture reaches 180 degrees F or until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove from heat and pour through the strainer into the heavy cream.
Mixture has been strained into the heavy cream.
Stir the custard over the ice bath until it’s cooled and then add the pure vanilla extract. Then remove bowl from the ice bath, cover with plastic wrap and place into your fridge until cold, preferably overnight.
Once the custard is cold, you are ready to churn your ice cream. Pour your custard into your churn.
My churn takes about 30 minutes to make the ice cream. Once the ice cream is done it will be soft, so I remove it into another container and place it into the freezer to get hard but not before I taste it!
I hope you will give this recipe a try, it’s the ultimate homemade vanilla ice cream! so good!! I guess you could add your favorite topping, chocolate, brownie, broken candy bars, etc. or mix it into the ice cream but this recipe is so good without toppings! 🙂
Do you make homemade ice cream?
Enjoy your ice cream!!
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Am I the only one who deftly sticks a spoon in the churn ‘just to test’? This is my recipe too and everyone loves it.
I do it too! This is the best ever vanilla ice cream isn’t it!! A good friend gave this to me back in 1996, I guess this recipes has probably been around for awhile!
The scoop is gorgeous- even more gorgeous than your special vanilla ice cream 😉 What a treat for your family! Best wishes, WG
thank you Elizabeth!! but the ice cream is really really good!! 🙂
😉 Certainly looks like it. Will take your word for it, since I’m going more vegan by the day. Looks like real butter and cream for the coffee will be the last to go…
Yum! Boy, would I like some of that right now! Blessings, Natalie 🙂
It’s really delicious Natalie! Bless you too Natalie! 🙂
okay, I’m in–I’ll try it–I usually don’t make the custard varieties but this one looks delish!!!
And I’m liking your cusinart maker—I need to get a new maker—so I think I’ll order a new one and let this recipe be my trial run 🙂
Hugs and love Michael who wants to make me fat!!!
julie
Hi Julie, I got my cusinart make at Bed Bath & Beyond since they always have a 20% coupons! Let me know how it turns out, be sure to leave it in the freezer for 24 hours before eating! We both have to work out harder after eating ice cream!! big hugs 🙂
Hi Michael. Looks so tasty! I love vanilla too. But today I have lots of blueberries, so I might make some blueberry ice cream if I get the time. 😉
….MMMM blueberry ice cream sounds good! 🙂
You just can’t beat vanilla, especially made with a vanilla bean!
I agree, you kids would love this! 🙂
Classic creamy vanilla ice cream. Love it and yes I make ice cream all the time although not recently I have such a huge amount of unused egg whites I need to use before I separate more eggs. Love that scoop.
I Love ice cream and love to make it too! I use the egg whites to make cookies 🙂
I have been freezing in ice cube trays and storing in ziplock bags I have 2 full bags and 2 containers in the fridge. Need to start using . Cookies sound good.
Love vanilla ice cream, have made it, but it has been years. This looks delicious. 🙂
You should make yourself some ice cream Judy! It is very delicious 🙂
I have to get my Cuisinart ice cream making out before ice cream month is over! There is nothing better than a delicious and rich vanilla ice cream.
I agree with you on that! 🙂
I love this post 🙂 the ice cream does look amazingly good! 😀 I’ll definitely give this recipe a try! 😀
Hi Sarah, thank you, it is very delicious, the longer you can leave it in the freezer before eating to let the flavors infuse the better it will taste. Please let me know if you give it a try!! 🙂
I’ll keep that in mind 😉 thanks
I definitely will!
Looks good Michael! I am more of a chocolate ice cream than vanilla. But since you make this with a vanilla bean I bet it is really good!!
Hi Bernice, Dark Chocolate Fudge is my all time favorite but I love a good vanilla bean ice cream too! I will have to make my dark chocolate ice cream an post it!!!
That sounds awesome!!
I feel like I gained two pounds just by reading this. I love ice cream but I’m still trying to hike off what I ate 5 years ago!
Oh no… I understand Allen, me too. It’s seems as I get old it is hard to lose weight but I have to tell you this vanilla ice cream is the best!! 🙂
I haven’t made homemade ice cream in years! Your vanilla ice cream looks wonderful. Love the color from the egg yolks!
I’m going to give this recipe a try, I bought a new ice cream maker so will be trying this sometime this weekend! Thanks 🙂
It’s very delicious! Please let me know if you try it! 🙂
Your rich and creamy ice cream sounds amazing!!! Vanilla is one of my favorites 🙂
Vanilla bean is my absolute favorite ice cream and this looks so so good, Michael. It definitely would make me do a happy dance!:) How do you like your ice cream maker? We got ours for a wedding present 29 years ago, and I have been thinking of getting a new one. The ice cream scoop is really beautiful, too!
I love this recipe but I also have a chocolate ice cream recipe that is out of this world! I love my ice cream maker, I use it at least once a week. 🙂
Will definitely try this one (even though it is no longer National Ice Cream Month)! :-9
Lindy
Hi Lindy! Please let me know if you try it, it’s really good. 🙂
Such yumminess indeed! Vanilla is definitely my favorite icecream flavour. Your scoop is beautiful,I bet it makes the icecream even tastier! 🙂
good morning, I am glad you got a chance to visit me site! I love your orange cup cakes! The recipe of vanilla ice cream is very delicious! thank you for your nice comments on my scoops 🙂
I haven’t tried this recipe yet! I can’t wait to get home and give it a try, I love vanilla and totally get why it’s the top flavor. I find many of the other flavors are a bit overly sweet for my taste. I’m glad to have a new tried and true recipe to try!
Hi Barbara, This recipe is the best homemade vanilla ice cream I have tasted, it is really creamy and delicious! I hope you give it a try and if you do please let me know what you think. 🙂
Wow that looks like some heavy duty ice cream maker machine. I bet it makes great ice cream! Thanks for stopping by my blog.
Hi Teresa! First let me say I am glad you made it over to visit my blog! It does make great ice cream but as you know it is all in the recipe!! 🙂 I hope you make it back to my site again, I am posting a Dark Chocolate Ice Cream recipe next week! 🙂 I plan to make your Blueberry Strudel Cake.
I’m coming to your house when I want good homemade vanilla ice cream!! 🙂 This looks amazing!!
good morning Jocelyn! Sounds good to me, I made a Mint Chocolate Chip and a Dark Chocolate ice cream that I will be posting soon too! 🙂 Have a great day! 🙂
Oh how I love a good rich vanilla ice cream! Love your scoop too. I’ve started a little scoop collection do maybe I can get someone to get me one for a birthday or something :). Nothing better than food monitors with family 🙂
Really good recipe! When we make vanilla with an ice cream machine, we make something quite similar. Great post — thanks.
It is good, don’t you just love making homemade ice cream? 🙂