Adventures in Ice Cream

You know you're jealous of my whale measuring cup and diver spoon.

SEA SALT ICE CREAM (test run)

I decided to go with the simplified version of the recipe, which I found here.

The ingredients are fairly simple.

What you need for this project:

SUGAR

MILK

HEAVY WHIPPING CREAM

VANILLA

EGGS

Oh, and of course...

Once you have all your ingredients in place, MAKE SURE nothing is expired. 

Ok, next separate the eggs into two bowls. Whip the egg whites until it looks like whipped cream and mix the yolks with your sugar. 

IF you were smart and checked the milk before this step, you can now move onto boiling the milk over a medium heat. I was not, so at this point I had to put everything back into the fridge and go back to the store.  Luckily, the store is just down the street. 

Boil the milk. SLOWLY. Careful not to burn it, otherwise you will get chunks of it floating around that you have to strain out later (which is difficult if you don't own a strainer). 

Pour the hot milk (which kinda smells weird) into the yolk/sugar and mix. Then pour your milk/yolk/sugar mix back into the pot and let it thicken over a medium heat. Mine didn't really thicken (I think my heat was too high), but it didn't seem to matter. 

Pour your custard (or liquid, depending on how it turns out) into the whipped egg whites. I had to re-whip the egg whites due to being left in the fridge while I went to the store. Now mix and place in the fridge to cool.

Now you have at least an hour to kill. I spent this hour lost in Tumblr and practicing my eye makeup. 

Once your concoction is cool, add the vanilla, heavy whipping cream and sea salt. The recipe doesn't call for a specific amount of salt, since it is to your personal taste. I put in about 3/4 teaspoons. Since this whole project is to recreate the ice cream from Kingdom Hearts II, I added blue and green food coloring. 

Now at this point, you can just throw it in your ice cream machine, but not everyone has one (including me). So instead, I put it in a cake pan to freeze.

Like so.

This way requires a little arm power. It needs to be taken out and stirred about every thirty minutes, until it is evenly frozen and resembles ice cream. 

Close enough. 

It was quite a bit of work and took over three hours to finish, but the result was sooo good. Next time I make it, I need to put it in a ice cream mold to really make it authentic. 

Success!!

It tasted like sunny days and friendship.

I am rather pleased that my first attempt at ice cream turned out so well. It must have been my lucky cupcake shirt...