Important Note About Making Homemade Fruity Ice Cream

• *Remember that honey is about 25% sweeter than regular sugar, so if you do use sugar, you may want to account for that by adding 25% more. 

Preparation of Homemade Fruity Ice Cream

Step 1

• Start by snagging your favorite fruit from the farmers market or favorite grocery - or your own back yard! You really can use almost anything: strawberries, plums, peaches, apricots, blackberries. Just don’t do apples or anything super fibrous. 

  Process the fruit by chopping into ~1”-2” hunks, and freezing them in ziplock bags or on cookie trays lined with parchment paper. I use ziplock bags because that allows me freedom to make the ice cream later when I have spaciousness in my schedule, and not manage a bunch of cookie sheets in the meantime.

Step 2

• When you feel like it next, make the sweet cream mix:

  Warm up the cream and honey in a pot over low-medium heat, enough to melt the honey, but not enough to boil the milk. You accidentally boiled the milk? No problem, just remember to strain it before freezing it, to remove those gooey bits that congeal at the top and bottom of the pot after high heating. 

  Basically you just want the honey to completely dissolve. This may require some taste tests, at which point you may think WHOA. WAY. TOO. SWEET. Worry not, it won’t be – because frozen fruit is not as sweet as fresh, so it’ll even out later when mixed.

  Pour the sweet cream mix into whatever you’ve got that’ll fit in your freezer, stacked at about 1-2” thicknesses: cookie trays, ice cube trays, muffin trays, whatever. Layer in the freezer, and wait about a day +/- for the sweet cream mix to completely freeze. 

Step 3

• The day has come and you’re ready to finally make the ice cream. When you’re ready, pull out some fruit and some sweet cream mix from the freezer. Into the food processor, add equal parts fruit and cream mix if you like it creamy, or 1 part cream to 2 parts fruit if you like more fruit flavor. Mix in food processor until completely smooth. Taste. What do you think? More cream? If so, then this is the time to pour in unfrozen cream from your fridge and mix again. More sweetener? Add more sugar (remember, honey hardens when cold so it may be better to use sugar here). More fruit? You get the picture. Just get it how you like it.

  You can eat it super soft right now, or throw it in containers in the freezer to harden it up more. After hardening up, let it soften for a few minutes before eating.