I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
Sometimes a bowl of ice cream is just the thing. There’s no getting past it – whatever ‘diet’ you’re on, or whatever eating style you live by… we all love ice cream. This recipe is a celebration of that glorious, wonderful, magical concoction – minus the churning.
A friend of mine mentioned the (rough) recipe to me recently, and I was left thinking, “I have GOT to try that!”
And, of course, healthify it just a little. Enough so that you don’t feel guilty. But not so much that it tastes healthy.
This ice cream is both sinfully easy and sinfully delicious – but so free of sin, you might just get sent straight to heaven with your first mouthful! 😉
This recipe is also a celebration of Homemade, Healthy, Happy’s very first giveaway AND of my favourite dessert ingredient… VANILLA!
(I bet you all thought I was going to say chocolate, right? Okay, I fold – chocolate and vanilla tie.)
The wonderful people of Sunshine Vanilla have offered an amazing little treat for you guys – FIVE of you will win a little gift pack from Sunshine Vanilla, each one containing FOUR threesome packs (that’s TWELVE vanilla beans!) AND 100g of vanilla powder. How super-generous is that?!
Those of you who have been following me on facebook for a while will know that I buy my vanilla in bulk from Sunshine Vanilla. Organic vanilla beans for less than $1 per bean – you just can’t get that kind of price in the shops. And these vanilla beans are the plumpest, juiciest, most flavoursome vanilla beans I have found. I’m so excited to be able to share them with you – thank you, Sunshine Vanilla!
Read below for how to enter the giveaway. But for now, let’s get back to ice cream! Here’s a pretty picture to get you drooling…
- 400g naturally-sweetened vanilla condensed milk (see recipe below)
- 600ml pouring cream OR 200g thick, luscious Cleo's body cream (unpasteurised cream) plus 400g Cleo's bath milk (unpasteurised milk)
- Place all ingredients in Thermomix bowl and mix for 10-15 secs on speed 5.
- Pour into a container (stainless steel is great), and freeze overnight. No churning required; once it is frozen, you're good to go! AND it scoops easily with an ice cream scoop, straight from the freezer.
HOT TIPS:
Maybe make it in the morning and freeze all day instead of overnight – otherwise the risk of having ice cream for breakfast is rather high.
Mix your raw milk & cream & add kefir grains; let it sit in a sealed jar on the bench for 24 hours. Remove the kefir grains & use your cultured cream/milk mix to add a probiotic boost to your ice cream. (You can also do this with the 600ml pouring cream if that’s what you’re using.)
- 1L full cream milk (preferably unhomogenised; you're going to cook this milk, so don't waste your expensive Cleo's bath milk in this part of the recipe!)
- 150-200g rapadura sugar
- seeds of 1-2 vanilla beans
- Place all ingredients in TM bowl. Place the lid on the TM, and place your rice basket on top of the lid instead of the MC (this allows the milk to reduce). Cook for 40-45 minutes on Varoma temperature, speed 5.
This rapadura-sweetened condensed milk is just divine. It doesn’t taste like boiled milk with bland sugar. It tastes rich and complex; like a gorgeous caramel. And those flecks of vanilla throughout… to die for.
So, how do you get your hands on one of those free gift packs from Sunshine Vanilla?
Easy – simply comment below with your favourite use for vanilla, and 5 winners will be chosen at random. Entries close at 6pm (Sydney time) on Tuesday the 24th, and I will announce the lucky winners in the comments here and on Facebook on Wednesday the 25th. Share the competition on Facebook and get your friends involved – maybe you can share the gift pack if one of you win!
Happy commenting, and good luck! 🙂
Giveaway is for Australian residents only.
Vanilla – how do I love thee, let me count the ways! I add it when whipping cream for pavlova, really brings out the flavour of the fruit you serve with the pav 🙂
i really like it in quirky jo’s raw macadamia cheesecake!
Congratulations! You’ve won one of the gift packs! Please email me on hhh_sarah@outlook.com with your delivery address so we can have the pack sent to you asap! 🙂
Mmm yum, vanilla would be a delicious addition to just about any cheesecake, I reckon! xoxo
Loved adding vanilla to my first batch of kombucha thanks to Sarah!
Nicole Dent
Congratulations Nicole! You’ve won one of the gift packs! Please email me on hhh_sarah@outlook.com with your delivery address so we can have the pack sent to you asap! 🙂
Ooooh, how good is vanilla kombucha?!? SO glad you’re loving the stuff. 🙂
xoxo
I love vanilla in all baking, but really love using the beans to see the beautiful speckling in custards and ice creams!
A quarter or eight of a pod in the teapot with some rooibos tea or simmered into cleopatra’s bath milk with a little cocoa, rapadura sugar and some Celtic sea salt – perfect before bed!
X
oops, i forgot to add the great lakes gelatin to the hot chocolate recipe… a spoonful stirred in and dissolved – makes you sleep like a log! 🙂
Congratulations Alicia! You’ve won one of the gift packs! Please email me on hhh_sarah@outlook.com with your delivery address so we can have the pack sent to you asap! 🙂
Uhm, AMAZING suggestions. Vanilla rooibos is my 5 yo’s favourite tea! I love adding great lakes gelatin to practically anything – we love a teaspoon stirred into our tea too! xoxo
Vanilla cake/muffins! (with spelt flour, almond meal, rapadura, eggs, macadamia oil, youghurt and ..you guessed it! Vanilla!)
Now that the strawberries are out, home made vanilla ice cream with freshly picked strawberries is also a big hit!
In a Moroccon inspired pudding called mahalbia (it is dairy, egg and gluten free!). I use it with my own homemade vanilla bean paste! Yummy! (and sunshine vanilla are awesome!)
White Chocolate and Vanilla Bean custard.
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Vanilla bean custard is hands down my favourite – never thought to add white chocolate, but you better believe I’ll be trying that soon! xoxo
Icecream!!!!!! For my 5yo’s bday she requested home-made icecream with 5 vanilla beans – so yummy 🙂 Oh! And I’m on my 3rd bottle of home-made vanilla extract (your recipe ;-))
Any baking, even if it is not in the recipe!
Congratulations! You’ve won one of the gift packs! Please email me on hhh_sarah@outlook.com with your delivery address so we can have the pack sent to you asap! 🙂
Aaaaaamen – stick a vanilla bean in everything! 😉
xoxo
Alright everybody! Giveaway winners have been announced – check underneath your comment to see if you won, and email me your delivery details as soon as you can so we can get the vanilla on its way!
SURPRISE ANNOUNCEMENT:
Sunshine vanilla have set up some exclusive offers to Homemade, Healthy, Happy readers for ONE WEEK ONLY. So if you missed out on the gift packs, never fear! Head to http://www.sunshinevanilla.com.au/homemadehealthyhappy to buy yourself some super cheap organic vanilla! Happy shopping! 😉
Thank you so much! I’ve sent you an email already with my details.
Very excited!