June 1st. The month when SUMMER begins! Did you know today is National Barefoot Day? I’m going to honor it by going barefoot and enjoying a bowl of this yummy Creamy Banana Berry Ice Cream we made over the weekend. I first tasted this when my sis in law, Diane made it for us in her hand crank ice cream maker. Why would anyone purposely buy a hand crank model over a standard electric model? Diane, a total yellow (party) personality, as opposed to my red (as a mom) personality, thought it would be fun to have the kids take turns cranking and taking part in making the ice cream. Well, that lasted for about 2-3 minutes tops, then they found more important things to do, like PLAY. Even though we had 10 kids between us, we would get about 12 minutes of total hand crank time out of the kiddos. A few years later, Mother’s Day rolled around and I scored on a lovely Cold Mountain electric ice cream maker. Now, the machine does the work. It’s tart, sweet, fruity, rich, creamy. So easy. So yummy.
It’s like tasting summer.
Creamy Banana Berry Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 3 ripe bananas
- Juice of 3 lemons
- Juice of 3 oranges
- 6 cups fresh strawberries or raspberries, cleaned and hulled
- 3 cups of sugar
- 4 cups heavy cream
- 2 cups whole milk
- Ice
- Rock Salt
Instructions
- Place first 5 ingredients in bowl of food processor fitted with metal blade ( or use blender and blend bananas and orange juice, then sugar, strawberries and lemon juice, then combine). If using raspberries, leave whole do not process.
- Add cream slowly, then add milk. Pour entire mixture into a 6 quart ice cream maker and freeze according to freezer instructions.
- makes 1 gallon.
Notes
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first of all. this is the best ice cream EVER!!!! second. it makes SO MUCH! in the past when i've made it i've had to do 3 batches because my cuisinart ice cream/sorbet maker bowl is so small. so i 1/3 the recipe tonight and it was the perfect amount for my ice cream maker! just wanted to comment in case anyone else has the same one!
Hello My Name is: Genevieve
this looks absolutely amazing! I am really excited to try it!
Carrian
I am dying for and ice cream machine. This looks so good!!
Melanie
Hurray for Summer and for National Barefoot Day. I am going to be making this ice cream FOR SURE. That is if I ever get done cleaning up throw up.