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Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream takes you back to warm summer days and lazy porch rockers. With only 5 ingredients, this recipe is quick and easy to prepare.

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

One of the best things about this time of the year is U-Pick Strawberries. It’s the only time of the year when I know every berry in my fridge is a good beery. You know what I’m talking about. You’re at the store, you spot the strawberry packages, they look good. You pick one up, inspect it. Pick another up, inspect again, turning over, checking the berries on the bottom. Finally, you think you have a good one.

You get home, unload all the groceries then open your pack of berries only to find 4-5 of your precious berries are bruised, beaten or only half ripe.

This doesn’t happen with U-Pick. Every berry is hand selected by me or my personally trained pickers (aka the kids.) It takes years of training to be one of my certified pickers.

Biggest is not always the tastiest. Look for good color all over. Firm but not hard. Oh, and yes, absolutely taste test in the field. I encourage taste testing many berries as you pick for “quality control” purposes.

And really, there is something to this. You can test a berry in one row and it can be the perfect sweetness, then move a few rows down and you might find the berries have turned tart. It’s not just that I want the kids to get a belly full while still in the field, honest.

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

We’ll try to pick every weekend during the season. Usually each person will pick a gallon of berries. Depending on who goes with me, I’ll have anywhere from 5-10 pounds of berries each trip.

I’ll freeze them, make jam, make syrup, add them to every meal I can. 2 out of 3 of my kids will go for strawberries over chips so they’re also the perfect anytime snack, score one for Mom!

Not only is it strawberry season, it’s also warm enough to be ice cream season! How better to celebrate spring than incorporate the two. Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream is easy to put together so if you have an electric ice-cream maker, you won’t have to wait too long for it.

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

 

Yield: 8

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients

  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 cup milk
  • 1 can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1/4 cup sugar
  • 1-2 cups strawberries, cleaned and sliced

Instructions

  1. With a whisk, combine all ingredients except strawberries, just until frothy. Freeze for 45 minutes. Remove from freezer and gently whisk again to stir. Pour into Ice cream maker and freeze according to machine's instructions. Approximately 10 minutes before machine is done churning, add in strawberries. Finish churning then transfer ice cream to freezer container and freeze for 4 hours or overnight.
inspired by Niki’s Sweet Side

Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream

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  1. Niki Shepherd says

    April 21, 2013 at 4:55 pm

    Oh la la Joan! I love this and it sounds so delicious!! I’m totally gonna try this one soon, I LOVE ice cream recipes, I know it will be great!! 🙂

    • Joan Hayes says

      April 21, 2013 at 10:04 pm

      Niki, you’ve created an Ice Cream monster, I’ve got 2 more recipes to write up and a thousand combinations swimming around in my head.

  3. Kalamity Kelli says

    April 21, 2013 at 10:00 pm

    I love strawberry season – it’s almost here in this part of the country too. Your ice cream looks so delicious – I’m going to cut it down a bit and use it in my ice cream maker as soon as I have some beautiful red berries in my hot little hands! 🙂

  4. Gloria @ Simply Gloria says

    April 22, 2013 at 11:54 am

    Joan, I’m in love with this ice cream! I actually buy extra strawberries to freeze them and pop them into ice cream…it’s the only way I will eat strawberries! Pinning! And, your newest follower!

    • Joan Hayes says

      April 22, 2013 at 9:45 pm

      Gloria, I’m so glad to have you here. During picking season, I’ll probably go through 40-50 pounds of strawberries so I can freeze a bunch and make some jam and syrup. The at least when they’re hard to find in the winter I know I still have my “stash.”

  5. Carrie says

    April 22, 2013 at 4:08 pm

    This sounds scrumpt and looks easy enough for even me!

    We’re having some good weather down south now, but the heat is coming on and it’s gonna come on strong. This looks heavenly. And as far as I’m concerned…ANYTHING with strawberries hits the spot!

    • Joan Hayes says

      April 22, 2013 at 9:40 pm

      Carrie, you definitely need an Ice Cream make if you don’t have one, you and your new daughter can have fun all summer long making new flavors!

  6. tanya says

    April 23, 2013 at 7:22 am

    Looks so good Joan! So perfect for this warm weather! I’ve never picked my own strawberries, but have always wanted to do that. I suspect my kids would eat a hefty amount while picking-we love berries. But you are right, getting them at the store can be a coin toss!

  7. Emily says

    April 23, 2013 at 8:20 am

    WOw! How fun that you live so close to a U-pick place… I would love to have all those berries in my freezer… I just have to settle for the sales… thanks for linking up to Tasteful Tuesdays at Nap-Time Creations… Winners for the giveaway will be announced Wed… Have you entered?
    http://www.nap-timecreations.com

  8. Lynne says

    April 23, 2013 at 4:45 pm

    Looks delicious! Our U-pick season is later and the only place around charges around $4 a pound so we go but don’t generally stock up due to the cost. I do adore fresh picked strawberries though! If only the ones in my garden would give me some berries I’d be set!

  11. The Café Sucre Farine says

    April 28, 2013 at 7:58 pm

    Yum, yum, yum, we’re just beginning to see the first home grown berries here in North Carolina. Love this time of the year. Your ice cream looks fantastic. You’re so right about training the “pickers”. There was a time when my daughter just wanted to get it over and when we came home there were all kinds of unripe, green berreis in her basket. She got in a boatload of trouble and now she is the perfect berry picker and trying to teach her children the “art”. Haha, I hope she has one that loads up the basket with green berries, just to get the job done 🙂

    • Joan Hayes says

      April 28, 2013 at 8:10 pm

      I love this story! Chris, you just have me smiling from ear to ear! Part of the training I included was a “best berry” contest. Helped give a little motivation to look for the good ones!

  12. Karyn - Pint Sized Baker says

    April 28, 2013 at 9:02 pm

    I love homemade ice cream! Next time, add a banana to the mix 😉 So good! Thanks for linking up at Pint Sized Baker’s Two Cup Tuesday Party! I’ve pinned this! I hope to see you again on Monday Night!

  16. April @ Angel's Homestead says

    May 2, 2013 at 9:24 pm

    I love this! I’m going to be doing a round up of berry recipes next Friday, and would like to include your photo. With full credit and link to your site of course. Please join the party Saturday Spotlight @ Angels Homestead, it starts at 12 am Friday night, and runs until 12 midnight Wednesday.

    http://angelshomestead.com/

    Hope to see you there 🙂

    April

  19. Linda says

    May 31, 2014 at 11:58 am

    Holy Crapola…this stuff is good. I made it for some friends but it’s going to be tough to give it away. Just tried out a brand new ice cream maker and I have to say this stuff is seriously good! You make those strawberries fresh Oregon strawberries (Haagen Daz agrees they are the best ones!) and you just take it to the Nth! Thanks for a great recipe!!

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