Black raspberry ice cream can be made with fresh or frozen black raspberries. Heavy cream, milk, sugar, and a hint of vanilla along with ripe black raspberries make for a creamy, fruit ice cream.
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🤩 Here is why this recipe is amazing:
- Use fresh or frozen black raspberries and enjoy your favorite homemade black raspberry ice cream all year long.
- Made in the french style of ice cream making, this ice cream is full of flavor thanks to the whole milk, heavy cream and 13 egg yolks.
🥣 Ingredients needed to make black raspberry ice cream:
- Milk - whole milk is best (2 cups)
- Cream - heavy cream (2 cups)
- Salt - yes, salt helps make ice cream sweeter
- Vanilla - vanilla extract, 1 vanilla bean; scraped or a ½ teaspoon of vanilla paste.
- Egg Yolks - Save the egg whites for another recipe. 13 yolks yes 13
- Sugar - white granular sugar (1 ¼ cup)
- Black raspberries - fresh or frozen
🍨 How to make black raspberry ice cream:
- In a heavy bottom pot, over medium high heat, bring the milk, heavy cream, salt and vanilla to a boil.
- Once a boil has been reached, turn off the heat and remove the pan from the hot burner.
- While waiting for the milk mixture to come to a boil, blen together the egg yolks and the sugar until they are light and fluffy, about 2 minutes in a blender.
- Create a liaison of the hot milk and the sugared egg yolks by whisking the egg yolks and slowly pouring ¼ cup of the hot milk into the yolks while vigorously whisking.
- Repeat, ¼ cup at a time, until ½ of the milk mixture has been added to the yolk mixture.
- Continually whisking, combine the yolk/milk mixture with the remaining milk mixture.
- Return the ice cream base to the pot.
- Turn the heat to medium and continually stir the mixture until the temperature reaches 175-185F or coats the back of a spoon.
- Strain the ice cream base through a fine mesh strainer.
- Immediately cool the ice cream base in an ice bath.
- Puree all but ½ cup of the black raspberries and pass through a fine mesh strainer or cheese cloth the remove the seeds.
- When completely cooled, add the black raspberry purree to the ice cream base and process in the ice cream machine according to the manufactures instructions.
- Spoon ½ the semi frozen ice cream into your freezer safe container and spread half the whole berries over the ice cream. Top with the rest of the ice cream and the remaining berries.
- Freeze until firm.
📝 Frequently asked questions, answers and tips:
It is very important to use a thermometer to monitor the temperature of the ice cream base after you have created the liaison and have it over medium heat to thicken it.
If it gets away from you, IMMEDIATELY pour off the ice cream into a bowl set over ice. DO NOT scrape the bottom of the pan. Hopefully, you can strain out the cooked eggs but often there is no saving the ice cream base and you have to start over. Be sure to strain the base before proceeding with the rest of the instructions.
This tip comes from my days as a culinary student. Try as we may, to not cook the eggs in the ice cream base, there was always a little bit that would coagulate. Straining the base ensured the ice cream was silky smooth and did not have bits of cooked egg in the finished product. 
By pureeing the berries and passing them through a fine-mesh strainer, you are able to get the seeds out making the ice cream seedless black raspberry ice cream with the exception of the whole berries.
Waiting for ice cream to be ready to eat can seem like the longest wait! But I found that if you were to place your chilled ice cream base in the freezer for 30 minutes before adding it to the ice cream maker it will give it a jump start on freezing faster.
🧾 More Black Raspberry Recipes:
- Seedless Black Raspberry Jam - This is the best homemade seedless black raspberry jam recipe made with fresh or frozen black raspberries. There is also a low sugar recipe option for this small-batch black raspberry jam that is equally as delicious.
- Black Raspberry Pie - This is the best black raspberry pie because of it is a two crust pie and has a hint of cinnamon and nutmeg to bring your fork back for another piece of pie.
- Black Raspberry Ice Cream - Black raspberry ice cream can be made with fresh or frozen black raspberries. Heavy cream, milk, sugar, and a hint of vanilla along with ripe black raspberries make for a creamy, fruit ice cream.
Black Raspberry Ice Cream
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HELPFUL KITCHEN TOOLS
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole Milk
- 2 cups heavy Cream
- pinch Salt
- 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- 13 Egg Yolks
- 1 ¼ cup Sugar
- 2 ½ cups Black raspberries
Instructions
- In a heavy bottom pot, over medium high heat, bring the milk, heavy cream, salt and vanilla to a gentle boil.2 cups whole Milk, 2 cups heavy Cream, pinch Salt, 1 teaspoon Vanilla extract
- Once a boil hase been reached, turn off the heat and remove the pan from the hot burner.
- While waiting for the milk mixture to come to a boil, blend together the egg yolks and the sugar until they are light and fluffy, about 2 minutes in a blender.13 Egg Yolks, 1 ¼ cup Sugar
- Create a liasion of the hot milk and the suggared egg yolks by whisking the egg yolks and slowly pouring ¼ cup of the hot milk into the yolks while vigorously whisking.
- Repeat, ¼ cup at a time, until ½ of the milk mixture has been added to the yolk mixture.
- Continually whisking, combine the yolk/milk mixture with the remaining milk mixture.
- Return the ice cream base to the pot.
- Turn the heat to medium and continually stir the mixture until the temperature reaches 175-185F or coats the back of a spoon.
- Strain the ice cream base through a fine mesh strainer.
- Immediately cool the ice cream base in an ice bath.
- Purée all but ½ cup of the black raspberries and pass through a fine mesh strainer or cheese cloth the remove the seeds.2 ½ cups Black raspberries
- When completely cooled, add the black raspberry purree to the ice cream base and process in the ice cream machine according to the manufactures instructions.
- Spoon ½ the semi frozen ice cream into your freezer safe container and spread half the whole berries over the ice cream. Top with the rest of the ice cream and the remaining berries.
- Freeze until firm.
- Serve
Notes
- ⅔ cup Cream - heavy cream
- 1 ⅓ cup Milk - whole milk is best
- ⅔ cup Sugar - white granular sugar
- ½ teaspoon Vanilla - vanilla extract, 1 vanilla bean;scraped or a ½ teaspoon of vanilla paste.
- Pinch of Salt - yes, salt helps make icecream sweeter
- 2 ½ cups Black raspberries - fresh or frozen
- Mix together the heavy cream, milk, sugar, salt, vanilla, and black raspberry puree. See how to make a seedless puree above.
- Process in an ice cream machine according to the manufacturer's instructions.
Nutrition
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