5-minute Ice Cream

now with video!
WARNING: The Following Instructable Is Extremely Addictive. Not for the Faint of Heart.
You are now always only 5 minutes away from Ice Cream. Are you prepared?

• also works great with yogurt!
   

A very special thanks to noahw for all of the amazing time and effort put into making this video for me.

Step 1 Ingredients

1 package frozen fruit (I used raspberries)
1/2 cup sugar
2/3 cup heavy cream
1 tsp vanilla

Comments

[bowow0807]

schooch this seems more like gelato than ice cream because ice cream is made with egg yolks and other stuff

[CandyAnnSwizzB]

Thats not true at all. Egg yolks? Never! Just heavy whipping cream (not whipped. the stuff in a carton) sugar, whichever ingredients you like, and bam! Of course you need an ice cream maker. You can also make butter with heavy cream... just pour some cream into a jar (or something with a spillproof lid) add a dash or so of salt, and shake it vigorously till the cream solidifies. Not lying!

[www.microbike.ie]

yeah ur right but nowadays everything frozen is ice cream :-)

[cattibalistic]

I'm going to make this, but my blender doesn't work. The strawberries I'm using are rock solid so maybe I'll find a hammer. :)

[artdreams]

Have been making this since I saw it last year YUUUM! And Thank you!

Tweaking: I love strawberry best, so I let the berries thaw just enough to chop by hand, then refreeze them so they don't end up in big chunks. I do a whole (big Costco) bag ahead of time because I know I'll use them and can deep freeze them this way.

I also first wondered "size of bag of berries," then found it doesn't really matter. I have a junior sized food processor, so throw in a couple handfuls of berries, and the sugar, then just add a stream of cream while it's whizzing until it suddenly thickens. Versatile.

But wait! Last night, I made it with nice, thick, non-fat Greek yogurt (which I made in my crockpot, another story), This time, frozen peach bits, strawberries and a large splash of vanilla.

Don't know that it's any better than with cream, but I could eat a huge bowl of it for the same calories.

[jphillips15]

Will you marry me?

[harrrypotterfan]

COOL!!
great recipe scoochmaroo!!!
simple and easy!!
im just gonna try it!!
<3 <3 thnkx a lot!!
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[ilpug]

must make must make must make

[raljabali]

can i put strabaris or peach insed of raspberries

[kevsricks]

That looks incredible

[destructopop]

SUCCESS! Blender Free success!
We are poor broke students and thus have no cash moneys. We don't have a blender or a food processor. Here was what we did:
We used raspberries because that's what boyfriend wanted. I laid out all of our raspberries on our cutting board, took our largest kitchen knife, and chopped the crap out of them. I cut them longways, sideways, and both diagonals. I kept chopping until they were a fine mush. I set out our cream and sugar, put those in the bowl, and whisked them on a cool surface until they all thickened a little, and then threw it in the freezer. We tried a LITTLE (very VERY runny still... We didn't want to spoil the cream) and LOVED the taste! It's freezing a bit firmer now, I'll review again when it's fully frozen, but so far so good! Just chop the crap out of the fruit and whisk that bad boy like a mad person. :D

[destructopop]

By the way... I froze it for 2ish hours of dinner and How I Met Your Mother (Checking on it and stirring once every thirty minutes... Between episodes. ;P) and it was WONDERFUL. Thick, creamy, a little chunky, and SO tasty.
Again, we didn't have a blender or food processor, so this is just chopped and whisked! Came out JUST fine!

[Lesedi]

Our blender broke :( any ideas on how to do it without one?

[wyrdmaege]

when I was in 5th grade, we took two different sized coffee cans & made ice cream. small can had ingredients. put it into the larger can, added smashed ice & ice cream salt (which I find in my grocery store with the regular salt), covered both with their plastic lids, and then rolled them for a while on the blacktop. I've also seen youtube vids where they use plastic bags instead of coffee cans.

The important thing is to agitate the mix while it's freezing.

[Lesedi]

Thanx ill try that. We replaced the blender but ill try that just for fun.

[Nelyan]

Seconded: I still don't happen to own a blender, all I have is a hand blender without a cup. Could it be done with that?

[oanderson]

stretch cling film over the top

[ostomesto]

idk maybe barrow one from a neighbor, or pound them continously with a hammer, but probably not.

[Lesedi]

@ostomesto just bawt some ice cream today gonna beat the life outta those bearries in the morning see how it goes. Thanx

[ostomesto]

oh hahaha i was kinda joking but it might work, actually it could work out nice. i think it could if you did it right

[redglitter]

Hey, this is cool! :D And it's something even I could make! I've never made any homemade ice cream because all the recipes I've seen are too complicated or have to many steps/need special tools. This looks like a cinch and it's the one I'm going to try. Thank you! :)

[victorian_lace]

I *just* made this. OMG! This is so amazingly awesome, thank you so much for posting this. I used strawberries as I adore strawberry ice cream and I used a blender, since I don't have a food processor. It turned out sweet, thick, creamy and so very strawberry-y. It's sooo much better than store bought. And it's healthier and cheaper too! Thanks again :)

[husamwadi]

....and for 10 second ice cream; have a dollar bill in hand, wait for musical noises, run out and ambush the ice-cream truck XD. Plus you can get flavors like spongebob, american pop, etc :P

nice recipe, and I hope you realize this easy ice-cream will be the reason for the surprise 10lb's of magic fat i'm gunna gain :)

look at that i used 3 smiles in one comment!

[wernarner84]

Could you make chocolate icecream using cocoa/chocolate bars?

[nash krywka]

this also works if you use about an eighth of a cup of condensed milk and only an eighth of a cup of sugar.

[alight2]

Did this today :D went out got a food processor becuz i just had to do it i added some fresh mint ^o^ and frozen morello cherries its delish :) im freezing it more for a stronger texture but seriously try this its amazing and so simple WOW xxx

[Asmodeous]

Damn, I gotta try this!

[cheeserdane]

Well I think thats just cheating.

[artdreams]

Maybe a dumb question, but,
how big is "a bag"? I get my stuff from Costco and their bags are huge . . .

Maybe it doesn't matter too much, just want a ball park guess. Making some tonight, looks GREAT.

[doughnutguy1]

Step 1: Go to a grocery store w/ normal sized stuff
Step 2: Find some frozen fruit
Step 3: read how many oz of fruit are in the bag
Step 4 :compare this to the costco bag.
Ex: the normal sized bag has 10 oz of fruit, while the costco bag has 40. therefore, you need to split the fruit into fourths and put them in seperate bags. It doesn't have to be exact.

Now you have premessured bags of fruit. Yay.

[artdreams]

10 oz. That's the easy info I'd asked for so loooong ago. I actually did what you suggested eventually. Just thought that package size might be a useful part of the recipe, hint hint, as most recipes do specify amounts of ingredients.
Honestly, when I make this (and I do regularly now, peach and strawberry, nom nom nom), I put about 2 handfuls of fruit in my food processor because it's a small one and that's how much it holds.

[arora-vesper]

I was thinking the same thing when watching the video... as I also have the giant costco bag.

[eulaliaaaa!]

Look at the bags in the picture and guesstimate at how much is in there.

[cherishcherub]

is noahw your fiancee??

[Dman125]

I just made this yesterday with 4lbs of strawberries I picked up, used a 500ml carton of 35% cream, and 1cup of sugar... Oh My GOD! Better then gelato! Next I'm making mango

[Dman125]

Mango is awesome, use the little yellow ones, not the large red/green ones though. I used 16 mangos 1L of cream, and maybe 1C of sugar, but I ended up with more then enough mango ice cream.

[beehard44]

try raw (the green ones) mangoes instead. They taste good for smoothies also!

[ilmarlai]

I also make a dairy-free version using coconut cream instead of cream. Any frozen fruit works well for different flavours, particularly peeled bananas cut in chunks and frozen. I sometimes puree a fresh banana (it turns quite liquid in the processor) and use this instead of cream for a totally fruit-based "ice-cream". Add as many bananas as you need to get the correct consistency. Bananas help to maintain the creamy consistency.

[rf]

Bananas can also replace sugar if you let them ripen a bit more.

[scoochmaroo]

Coconut cream is genius!!