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Vanilla Ice Cream /The Only Ice Cream Recipe You'll Ever Need from The New York Times

This is an ice cream base recipe - I made the vanilla version. I only had 5 yolks and found it plenty rich and certainly delicious! I don't think it would suffer if you wanted to sub a little of the heavy... read more >

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Jeni's Splendid Ice Creams at Home

By Jeni Britton Bauer
Artisan - 2011

This is a very rich, tasty ice cream. I used a fresh goat cheese that had been "dusted" with lavender. Everyone loved the flavor -many described it as "cheesecake-like", which is never a bad thing. I detected a very slight graininess, however it was not so bad as to keep me from serving it to guest (who loved it). Did not make the roasted red cherries though I am sure it would be a delicious offset to the tangy goat cheese. I also made the wonderful Sweet Corn Ice Cream from this book which is my favorite but was no where near as popular as the goat cheese flavor.

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This is my peanut butter fantasy come true! I did not add the chocolate "freckles" but the rich flavor of the peanut butter certainly held my attention. I did jazz it up with some quartered peanut butter creme (sandwich) cookies for a little texture. That's my idea of cookies and cream!

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Amazing! Creamy, tart and sweet this luscious ice cream hits all the right spots.

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Excellent tart-sweet flavor, lovely creamy texture- this one is perfect for summer. I embellished a little with a swirl of blackberry. Ran short on the cream cheese and subbed a tablespoon of goat cheese -may have added to the "tang" of the finished product but delicious just the same.
Made again 4/7/24 with sheep milk yogurt and it was delicious but very hard even after sitting out for a while.

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As usual Jeni's ice cream's do not disappoint. I held out on the last star only because the strawberry was a bit too weak in this recipe. The texture of the ice cream was excellent and the tang of the buttermilk was terrific against the subtle strawberry flavor. I considered adding the extra puree to the mix but as she cautions about the water content of the berries, I decided not to. Next time... and there will be a next time:)

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Amazing! The flavor and texture of this is terrific! That said I must admit I shorted the recipe of about 1 -2 Tablespoon of sugar - I ran out. I thought it was plenty sweet and the perfect ending to our BBQ. The thing I may do differently is skip the ziplock bag process for a shallow bowl on ice - I lost too much ice cream base in the nooks and crannies of the bag (and believe me you want every last drop of this one!).

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