How can I make my Ice Cream "creamier"?
My ice cream doesn't feel creamy enough. I got the recipe from Good Eats, and I can't tell if it's just the recipe or that I'm just not getting my "batter" cold enough before I try to make it. I let it chill overnight in the refrigerator, but it doesn't always come out of the machine looking like "soft serve" as he said on the show - it's usually a little thinner.
Recipe: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/serious-vanilla-ice-cream-recipe/index.html
Best Answer
More fat!
Your recipe has two dairy components (half and half and whipping cream). The half and half is half cream, half milk. To increase the fat, experiment with using more cream and less half and half.
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What ingredient makes ice cream thick?
First, cornstarch. Cornstarch binds the water molecules and thickens the mixture creating softer and more velvety texture. That's why it is very important, especially in no churn ice cream recipes. To work its magic you have to cook it with some of the milk/cream of the recipe.What makes homemade icecream foamy?
The foam is formed as a result of air in the ice cream not mixing with the other substances but instead forming small bubbles in the bulk. Ice actually contains all three states of matter (solid, liquid and gas).What ingredient keeps ice cream from freezing hard?
To help prevent the ice cream from freezing too solid, a little alcohol can be added to the mixture because alcohol does not freeze. This will help keep it from freezing so solid. Add 1 or 2 tablespoons of vodka to the mixture just before starting the churning and freezing process.How can I make my homemade ice cream texture better?
Adding a liqueur or wine to an ice-cream mixture will make it softer because alcohol, like sugar, lowers the freezing point of a liquid. If you like the firmness of a particular recipe but want to add a liqueur for flavor, you might counter the addition of alcohol by cutting back on the sugar.How do I make my ice cream creamier?
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Answer 2
Try churning longer, making sure that your churn container is thoroughly frozen.
Answer 3
Eggs!
Try a recipe with eggs (especially freshly plucked from the chickens you have living in your back yard as we do). My wife and I discovered this butter pecan recipe a few months ago and were quite pleased. We subsequently tried a chocolate recipe with eggs (as well as melted chocolate instead of powdered) and were quite pleased with that as well. Better than previous batches made sans egg.
Answer 4
If you've got a frozen bowl type ice cream churn (like a Kitchen Aid) then the unwritten rule is to nearly freeze your batter before churning.
I like to keep the batter in the freezer until crystals form on top. Then I'll take it out, and give it a good stir to raise the temperature just a wee bit to break up those crystals.
Then, and only then do I take the churning bowl out of the freezer.
There is enough "cold" in the bowl to absorb the latent heat of fusion, but not if you have to drop the temperature 5-10 degrees before it freezes.
Answer 5
Check to make sure that your running it long enough, and also that your container is cold enough at the start. If it's too thin, likely you're not getting the ice cream cold enough while churning.
- Make sure you put the container in the back of your freezer (often a little colder back there).
- If it's still getting firmer, let it keep churning, you might just not be there yet.
- Lower the temperature in the freezer (or use a deep freeze if you have one), to better chill the container.
- Remove the container from the freezer at the last possible second.
Answer 6
I'm not sure what you're finished ice cream product looks like, so this answer is based on conjecture, but I do have a few recommendations.
I think the main issue here is that the recipe calls for too much sugar. If I were you I would reduce the sugar to about 3/4 cup. Large amounts of sugar drastically lower the freezing point by interfering with recrystallization during freezing. This would explain why you are unable to get the soft serve consistency that you are looking for. It also explains the lack of creaminess because the ice cream is not able to freeze around the air, which is where the volume and creamy feel come from.
If that doesn't work, then I second the notion to try an egg custard base or to add more cream, but honestly it looks like the recipe already has plenty of fat. Altering the fat content could be more damaging to the recipe because the proteins in dairy are essential to stabilizing air bubble formation in ice cream.
Answer 7
Add 1 ounce of alcohol or extract containing alcohol. This makes it creamier.
Answer 8
simply use 2 cups of cream & only 1 cup of WHOLE milk. this should help. make sure freezer bowl is SOLID, no loose liquid inside.
Answer 9
It takes heavy whipping cream, half/half 1:2 ratio ( no milk), sugar, eggs and a freezer that has a strong motor to run longer and firm it up. Also chill mix and canister before starting freezing process.
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