How to Make Ice Cream at Home

The word “ice cream” conjures up happy pictures of kids and even adults. You can even imagine liberal splashes of the dessert on their faces. Now, wouldn’t you like to know how to make ice cream at home, and give your tiny tots a special treat? If you don’t have an electric ice cream maker at home you need not worry. You can still make a wonderful preparation with your hands.

The first step is to select an ice cream flavor which will appeal to your kids. It may be vanilla, strawberry or butterscotch. You can also make custard and freeze it in a special way to make your ice cream at home. In fact, it is ideal for novices to start with this.
After you mix a rich ice cream powder in milk in the required amount, keep it in the freezer to chill. You can also prepare custard and let it come down to room temperature before keeping it in the fridge. Chilling over an ice bath is preferable as it will cool faster.
Take any container made of stainless steel or plastic and pour the ice cream mixture into it. If it is a custard mixture then you can also pour this into the durable container.
It will take about 45 minutes for the ice cream mixture to freeze slightly. Make sure that it is not entirely frozen. Take the mixture out at this point of time and break the ice. Stir continuously until there are no ice pieces. You can use a spatula or a whisk too.
Place the ice cream mixture in the freezer again and allow it to freeze. This time you can check again after half an hour. Repeat the same procedure of whisking or beating up the mixture again and again. You should do this every 30 minutes. Use a stick blender or a hand mixer for better results.
After doing this a number of times, you will observe that the ice cream has set completely. The total amount of time taken for the ice cream to set completely is about 2-3 hours.
Using this above method, you can also cook up an Italian style with chocolate chips sprinkled liberally in the ice cream for taste. This can be done during the time that the ice cream is just starting to get frozen. Melt some milk chocolate and sprinkle over the ice cream. If you stir the mixture now, you will break up the chocolate into small chips.
Following the same procedure, the ice cream mixture can be frozen to get delicious Italian ice cream.

Since you have learnt the basic steps of how to make ice cream at home, you can do this several times and cheer up your kids. You will certainly feel proud to see them devour your home made ice cream. You can also have a sampling and see how delicious it is. This will encourage you to make ice cream at home again and again.