Raspberry Ice Cream Recipe

The combined flavour of homemade frozen cream and raspberries is one that is hard to top. One of the fun things about making your own frozen cream is to be able to blend different flavours right into the mixture as the frozen cream is being churned. Unlike buying flavoured frozen creams, when you make your own fruit flavoured frozen creams, you know for a fact that the fruit you mix in with the other ingredients is absolutely pure and absolutely fresh. And since most homemade frozen cream is eaten within a day after it is made, you get that taste of very fresh fruit mixed with your frozen cream that no frozen cream you buy at the store can possibly compete with.

There are times of the year when raspberries are just ripening that you can go to a local orchard and harvest them right off the tree. That is the time to make up your homemade frozen cream using these raspberries that could not be fresher. The flavour of the raspberries is so active at that time that they are almost unrecognizable from the flavour of raspberries from the supermarket. So if you get home from picking raspberries and get busy putting together the standard ingredients for homemade frozen cream to mix up in your frozen cream machine, you can add raspberries as the frozen cream is being made so they freeze right into the mixture for a wonderful taste treat.

The two best ways to add the taste of fresh raspberries to your frozen cream is chunky and creamy. The easy way is to just cut and clean the raspberries and perhaps skin them. Cut the raspberries into bite-sized pieces. Then mix up the frozen cream in your churn or frozen cream machine. During the process of mixing, add in the cut raspberries and let them churn into the mix. They will disperse throughout the mixture and some of the pieces will blend into the recipe to give all of the frozen cream a wonderful raspberry flavour. But when the homemade frozen cream is done and you serve it, the frozen raspberries will be part of the frozen cream so each bite will bring an explosion of raspberry flavour with each chunk you enjoy.

You can achieve the same flavour but make the frozen cream even more permeated with the flavour of raspberry by putting the skinned raspberries into the food processor and blending them into a paste. Add that to the frozen cream that is being prepared for churning and close up the frozen cream machine and let it do its work. When you take out the finished frozen cream, it will have a rich raspberry colour and the aroma of raspberry will fill the room. It will be hard to leave the soft frozen cream alone to let it finish in the freezer. But it will be worth it because your raspberry frozen cream will have a flavour that can't be matched!