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  • Homemade vanilla ice cream

    20140103-234637.jpgFor New Year’s Eve 2013 we had planned on making a luscious chocolate pudding dump cake and pairing it with vanilla ice cream. The vanilla ice cream got made, but when the time came to make the chocolate pudding dump cake, a couple of hours before midnight, we were all so full that we couldn’t be bothered.

    The ice cream worked well alone.

    It was the perfect food-end to 2013. Simple, great taste.

    The recipe is David Lebovitz’. It can be found here.

    The two changes I made was:

    • I didn’t let it cool overnight. (I ran out of time.) Instead I popped it in the freezer to chill properly for 10 minutes before freezing it in the ice cream machine. (Worked fine.)
    • Added two pods of vanilla beans instead of just one. (Well, it was New Year’s Eve. Also, I was moving the next day, and wanted to spend what I could.)

  • Vanilla coconut ice cream

    A friend of mine, B, is home from work on maternity leave. She just moved to the area and is going stir crazy with two kids under four at home. The three year old is desperate  for some day-time activities. With the ice cream kick I’ve been on lately, I suggested bringing some over to enjoy.

    The only problem is that B is lactose intolerant. So, the traditional ice creams are usually out for her. She said sorbets are fine, but I wanted to try something different.

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    I really hadn’t planned on making vanilla ice cream as there is usually so many different tasty ones available in store, but considering that B cannot go to regular stores in Norway and get it – it seemed appropriate to try to make an alternative for her.

    I replaced the cream and milk in this recipe with canned coconut milk.

    The recipe is adapted from the book Sweet cream and sugar cones.

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