07/13/2025
Did you know that it’s not difficult to make your own ice cream? 🤯 🍨
No ice cream maker needed!
With it being so hot, ice cream is a wonderful treat.
Most of your commercial ice cream brands are full of garbage - thickeners like carrageenan, guar gum, cellulose gum, colors, mono and diglycerides, and corn syrup. I’m copying this list from Perry’s Ice Cream ingredients online as a prime example.
Even some organic ice creams, like Alden’s, for example, has guar gum, soy lecithin, locust bean gum, and xanthan gum in them. 😳
There are some good options. Local ice cream shops that make their own are typically better without all the gums and other garbage. They’re usually happy to share their ingredient list when asked.
has an organic ice cream available in pints with absolutely no garbage in it. Some of the smaller brands, like , also have a short, clean list of ingredients.
Making your own gives you control over what’s in it.
I combined two recipes.
• Heavy cream (2 cups)
• I can sweetened condensed milk (I used Wegmans’ organic)
• vanilla (2 tsp or add more to taste)
I whipped the cream until stiff peaks formed.
In a separate bowl I mixed the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, then folded that into the whipped cream. From there, I took half and mixed frozen mango in. 🥭
The other half I used to make chocolate ice cream. 🍫
• I mixed 3/4 cup whole milk with 1/4 cup cocoa powder (I used organic)
• They list adding sugar in the recipe. For me, there was plenty of sweetness from the sweetened condensed milk, but you could always use amber maple syrup to sweeten without the maple flavor.
I folded the chocolate and milk into the whipped cream mixture.
Another benefit of making your own is that you can add nutritional extras. I added for the added nutrition (2 scoops of unflavored) to the whipped cream mixture before I split it so there is one scoop in each flavor.
I froze both ice creams overnight and they turned out great! Almost too good, really. 😆
Search online if you need nondairy options. There are great recipes using almond and oat milks.
DIY ice cream. So good, no garbage! 🍦