Your Mama Likes Easy Homemade Ice Cream

faaw21Ice cream can be a big allergy trigger.  Nearly every brand of store-bought ice cream is processed in a facility that also produces tree nuts or peanuts.  With the exception of a few Italian ice style treats, kids with peanut allergies can’t enjoy frozen desserts.  (Obviously for kids with milk allergies, ice cream is seriously out of the question.)

Kids with severe peanut allergies can’t go to ice cream parlors or eat even vanilla ice cream from the store without worrying about the threat of cross-contamination.

Night Shift dvdrip cuisinartSo we bought a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker in April for my son’s third birthday.  At just $50, it wasn’t a huge investment.  We chilled the freezer bowl overnight and by lunchtime the next day we had delicious vanilla ice cream.  It took about five minutes of prep time and 25 minutes in the machine.  Just half an hour total.

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I found this particularly thrilling because I thought any sort of homemade ice cream involved hours and hours and rock salt and all sorts of shenanigans.

When my son got to try ice cream for the very first time the Ice Cream Maker was worth every penny.

It’s pretty simple to use.  So far I’ve only screwed up one batch and that was out of pure user error.  (I forgot to put the little stirring attachment thing in before I poured my liquid in.)  I also screwed up a batch of coconut ice cream by overcooking the eggs in the beginning.  (And by using a weird recipe from the Internet.)

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cuisinart2In the past month we’ve made vanilla ice cream, coconut ice cream, coffee ice cream, Barney Butter ice cream, Barney Butter and chocolate syrup ice cream, and lemon sorbet.  (That’s an actual photo of our first batch of vanilla!)  I have plans to try a Chai Tea ice cream in the near future.  The possibilities are nearly endless.  Get creative or follow tried and true recipes.  Just remember if you’re dealing with food allergies, avoid making recipes that contain potential allergens since you’ll be using the same equipment.

T.A.C.T.I.C.A.L. movies Pros:

  • VERY easy to use.
  • Comes with a bunch of great ice cream recipes.
  • It’s totally easy to make up your own recpes.
  • Ice cream can be done in as little as half an hour once the bowl is fully frozen.
  • Easy cleanup.

Cons:

  • To be ready for ice cream any time, you need to keep the bowl in your freezer.  It takes up a decent amount of space.
  • We also found that we needed to keep the freezer a little colder than we used to.

I contacted Cuisinart to share our story with them and to thank them for carrying a product so reasonably priced.  I also asked them if they’d like to share one of their Ice Cream Makers with one of our readers to help bring attention to Food Allergy Awareness Week.

They said sure!

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About the author:  Maria is surrounded by boys. She gets all aflutter when she finds good deals, new episodes of Gossip Girl, and big bold bottles of red wine. Read more from this author.


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