Ice Cream/ice Cream Maker

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I let my kids have this for breakfast the other day, knowing that they’d be getting all those healthy fats and nutrients, and less maple syrup than if they’d had some on a pancake! (More healthy breakfast ideas.)

We borrowed Sonia’s Ice Cream Maker last week and went crazy with that thing. After Julie raved about the Nourishing Traditions recipe in Sally Fallon’s cookbook, I had to try it. Wow, she was right, it was amazing.

I would even venture to call this a low carb and healthy treat, just wait until you see these ingredients – full of nutrients! It only has a half cup of real maple syrup in 1 1/2 quarts of ice cream, so it’s a natural sweetener, AND there’s not that much of it!

Here’s the Ice Cream Maker I’m asking for this Christmas – it’s a little bigger than Sonia’s (this one is 2 qt.), which is important since we go through homemade ice cream fast around here.

Nourishing Traditions VANILLA Ice Cream recipe (with permission from Sally to post it here)

Recipe is adapted a bit to make 1 -1/2 quarts (fits perfect in Sonia’s 1- 1/2 qt. ice cream maker above)

3 egg yolks (be sure you use good quality eggs from a local farmer who raises healthy pasture-fed chickens…I wouldn’t recommend eating raw eggs from the grocery store.)
1/2 cup real maple syrup
2-3 T. vanilla extract
1 T. arrowroot (looks like cornstarch only it’s better for us)
3 1/2 c. heavy cream/whipping cream, preferably raw, but for sure NOT ULTRAPASTEURIZED
dash sea salt

Beat egg yolks and blend in remaining ingredients. Pour into ice cream maker and process according to instructions.

CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM VARIATION

1/2 c. real maple syrup
3 egg yolks
3 1/2 c. heavy cream (see above)
1 1/2 T. organic cocoa powder
dash sea salt

I think I liked chocolate the best, but they’re both dreamy.

UPDATE! I got the above ice cream maker for Christmas and here are the amounts for 2 qts. of chocolate: 2/3 c. maple syrup, 4 egg yolks, 4 2/3 c. cream, 2 T. cocoa, dash sea salt. 2 qts. of vanilla: 2/3 c. maple syrup, 4 egg yolks, 4 2/3 c. cream, 3 T. vanilla, 1 1/2 T. arrowroot, dash sea salt.
We recently made vanilla and added 1/2 t. of peppermint extract, and then put in some chocolate chips when it was almost done – it was the best mint chocolate chip ice cream we’ve ever had! (The kids ask for it all the time.)
Try the STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM!
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Or, if you’d like to make an unhealthy treat, but still not as bad as some out there, try this homemade organic chocolate hot fudge, Mmmmmmm
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Here’s a link to a informative post on the various commercial ice creams out there, from Psychic Lunch.
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