Easy Homemade Ice Cream

We have a church party today.  A few weeks ago, in a moment of insanity, I said that I would make homemade ice cream for this party.  Hmmm.

As I sent the kiddos to the garage to get the ice cream freezer (you know, the old-fashioned kind that you add ice and salt to freeze), I was thumbing through "Woman's Day" magazine.  I saw a recipe for easy ice cream that you don't use the specialized freezer with.  You just whip it up and put it in your freezer until it is hard.  I thought I would try it.

It is fantastic!

Easy.  10 minutes labor, tops.  I made 6 gallons.  Vanilla, fresh peach, oreo and banana.

When I followed the recipe exactly, it was a little too sweet.  That was fine for the vanilla and peach flavors, but I decreased the sweetened condensed milk for the oreo and banana flavors.  One quart of cream makes one gallon of ice cream.  I doubled the recipe - hello 6 gallons - but you can do what you want.

Ice Cream

2 cups heavy cream

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla

Combine all the ingredients in a large bowl. 

 Beat until stiff.

Place in a freezer safe container.

Freeze overnight.

Yum.

This is really a rich ice cream, emphasis on the cream.

You can add any flavor you want.

I added things after I beat the cream, before I put in the container.

What I added:

peach: 5 chopped and slightly mashed ripe peaches

banana:  4 mashed bananas (I was going to add chocolate chips to this one, too, but didn't have any)

Oreo:  oreos (duh), about 1/2 a container, broken into pieces