Strawberry Ice Cream

Yes you heard right strawberry ice-cream! Ice cream is so easy to make and so fun. You can really be as creative you want anywhere from the basic vanilla, chocolate or something special like raspberry sorbet. I will say one thing, the only way to make ice cream is to buy and ice cream maker. You may not want to buy one but trust me it is well worth the money and there really not that expensive for only fifty bucks i got my Cuisinart ice cream maker. And trust me when I say it is well worth it. Nothing beat the great taste of homemade strawberry ice-cream especially in a hot summer day. It will be worth the fifty dollars, you won't regret it. Trust me on that! I will also show you more ice cream flavors! and if you have suggestions please leave a comment.

Ingredients

1 Pint of Strawberries

3 Tablespoons of Lemon Juice

1 Cup of Sugar

2 Cups of half and half

1 Cup of heavy cream

1 Teaspoon Vanilla extract

Take your strawberries and slice the top off and slice the strawberries either very thinly or thick it depends on how you like your strawberries

In a bowl place your strawberries, 1/3 cup of sugar, and the lemon and stir. Place the strawberries in the fridge and them macerate for about two hours or more.

Mix together the half and half, cream, vanilla and the remaining 2/3 cup of sugar and mix with a whisk or until the sugar is well dissolved

Carefully pour the liquid from the strawberries into the cream mixture and mix, leave the strawberries in the bowl do not mix them with the cream mixture at this point the cream mixture will look a light pink

Pour the cream mixture into your ice cream maker and follow the instruction on your specific ice cream maker on how to make the ice cream. Each machine is different.

Before five minute after being done, pour the strawberries into the ice cream maker and let them keep on mixing for five minute or until done

Transfer the ice cream into a freezer safe container and let freeze until the ice cream is firm. You could also eat it right out of the ice cream maker it will be really soft though

Before enjoying your ice cream take fifteen minutes out before scooping so it will be easy to scoop. Enjoy