Super Simple Vanilla Ice Cream (3 Ingredients) (Table Top Ice Cream Maker Recipes)

 

Super Simple Vanilla Ice Cream

 

 

I have been craving ice cream all week!  Really longer than that.  This week I decided to mix up a batch of vanilla ice cream.  My mother-in-law has a fabulous recipe that uses sweetened condensed milk, half & half, whole milk, and vanilla, and she uses one of those big ice cream makers which uses lots of ice and rock salt.  I happen to have one of those big ice cream makers (several actually since we have the electric version, the hand crank version, and a new one with a plastic tub).  But I also have a smaller countertop ice cream maker, which my mom got me for Christmas one year (thinking I would never use it) but I use it all the time!  It makes a perfect small batch of ice cream.

 

This is my ice cream maker:

 

I found some on Amazon here.

 

I also remembered seeing a recipe similar to the one my mother-in-law uses on one of my most favorite blogs, Finding Joy in My Kitchen.  SnoWhite always has delicious, easy recipes and I knew I could depend on this recipe. 

 

I had a can of sweetened condensed milk in my pantry and some 2% milk in my refrigerator (even though SnoWhite lists whole milk or half & half in her recipe).  I changed the recipe just a teeny bit to use what I had in the pantry and my craving for icecream was over!

 

This is how I made Super Simple Vanilla Ice Cream AT HOME MY WAY:

 

Super Simple Vanilla Ice Cream

 

• 1 can sweetened condensed milk
• 4 cups milk (any combo to equal 4 cups milk will work such as low fat or whole milk, half & half, even milk made with powdered milk/water). (My preference is 2 cups milk + 2 cups half & half.) 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla

 

Mix well and refrigerate until cold.  Add to ice cream maker and churn away until its ready.  

 

• Freeze the remaining ice cream in a lidded container.  It does harden a bit.  For frozen leftovers, to make it dippable, just let it sit out a few minutes or I have been known to be impatient and microwave 10 seconds or so).

This was a super easy, super cheap and super delicious way to use what I had in my pantry to make wonderful treat!

Enjoy!

Gina