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Make your own creamy watermelon ice cream at home with this is easy recipe that only needs 4 ingredients! Surprise everyone with this unique flavor that is a perfect way to celebrate summer!
There really is such a thing as creamy watermelon ice cream! Using basic ice cream skills you can get deliciously smooth ice cream full of watermelon flavor. Of course looking online I couldn’t find any actual watermelon ice cream recipes. Everything was for watermelon bombes. Not what I wanted.
I did find a recipe once upon a time which is from Emeril Lagasse. It’s a bit of work, but is so worth it! I changed it up a bit and took out the chocolate chips that he added and didn’t carve out a watermelon to put it in it, seriously who has time for all that?
This recipe has you make a simple custard base that you mix with pureed watermelon. Easy peasy!
Table of Contents
Ingredients you need
- watermelon
- heavy cream
- sugar
- egg yolks
Use the leftover egg whites for meringues or a cake!
Note: if you choose to substitute the heavy cream for milk the resulting custard will be thinner and the ice cream will be more icy. If you are going to substitute it I would not substitute it for anything less than heavy milk. Higher fat content means creamier ice cream.
How to make this
- In a large saucepan over medium heat, combine heavy cream and sugar. Bring the mixture up to a simmer. Remove from heat.
- Whisk the egg yolks until smooth and temper into the hot cream mixture. To temper, slowly pour or add a few spoonfuls of the hot cream mixture to the egg yolks as you whisk. If you stop whisking or add in too much hot cream it will curdle the eggs. Go slowly!
- Cook the egg mixture for four minutes or until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Remove from the heat.
- Pour hot cream mixture over watermelon pieces and mix thoroughly. Cool to room temperature.
- Using a hand held blender, puree the mixture until smooth.
- Strain the watermelon custard through a mesh strainer.
- Pour the ice cream base into your prepared ice cream maker and follow the machines instructions.
- Once the ice cream is churned, spread the mix into a freezer safe container and chill in the freezer for 2-3 hours until firm set.
Top Tips
Equipment
I used my trusty old ice cream maker that gets tons of use during the summer! This is an absolute must each summer if you love ice cream.
I also really like these two scoops for scooping ice cream, this one gets nice big scoops that are really easy to get out of the scooper. The second one is your more traditional spring loaded scoop that I also like because I can use it for making cookies or scooping muffin batter.
Tips for scooping
I think we have all had trouble scooping ice cream right out of the freezer. One of my favorite tricks, which is what ice cream parlors do, is to have a cup of hot water that you keep the ice cream scoop in. This helps you to get nice scoops out of the frozen ice cream.
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