Saturday, January 5, 2013

Fleur De Sel Ice Cream

For Christmas this year I received the Kitchenaid Stand Mixer Ice Cream Maker attachment and on Monday I made our first batch of Ice Cream. It's pretty sweet, it's definitely the easiest method for making ice cream, but you definitely have to plan ahead. The mixer attachment is basically an ice pack bowl. In order to make ice cream, you have to freeze the bowl over night and you have to make the ice cream mix and refrigerate that overnight, and then once you mix them in the bowl, you still have to freeze the ice cream for 3-4 hours in order to get a real ice cream texture. But other than that, it's definitely EASY.

The recipe for ice cream I used is on page 11 of the use and care guide that came with the attachment. It's a basic recipe for French Vanilla ice cream. Once you make the ice cream mix and you mix it in the ice cream bowl with the mixer for 20 minutes, you then transfer the mix, which will be pretty much a soft serve consistency, to a container to then freeze for 3-4 hours.

If you want to mix in ingredients, this is the time to do it. In my case, I mixed in Lindt Hint of Sea Salt Dark Chocolate Bar that I chopped up into small squares along with a couple pinches of coarse sea salt and about 1/3 to 1/2 a cup of chilled caramel sauce that I swirled with a spatula before I sealed up the ice cream and put it in the freezer for the final freeze.

After the final 3-4 hours of freezing, you have a delicious french vanilla ice cream with big swirls of caramel and chunks of dark chocolate with sea salt. Its delicious, enjoy!