Monday, June 8, 2009

Blueberry Ice Cream

Today I am attempting to make ice cream for the third time! Today I am making sugar free blueberry ice cream. The "custard" is now in the fridge chilling. I did use heavy cream and whole milk.....but used splenda to sweeten it. So far so good! To get that bright, delicious blueberry flavor, I took some of my fresh blueberries from last summer that I froze and thawed out about 1/3 of cup of them. I then placed them in the mini food processor with a tablespoon of fresh lemon juice and pureed them. Once the "custard" was cooked and thrown in another bowl in an ice bath, I added the blueberry puree. I stirred it up and then poured the "custard" through a sieve to get out the blueberry bits. What a great purply/blue color the custard is!!!!!! Taste blueberry too! I plan on adding frozen blueberries to the ice cream in the last 5 minutes of churning later this afternoon. I will let you know how it goes!

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