Homemade vanilla bean icecream ...

We are pretty much a vanilla flavoured icecream family - you can add other flavours to suit so what's not to like, right?

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I had to buy full cream milk (!) and a carton of cream and also the vanilla beans to whip this up - naughty ingredients but the end result was so worth it.  I have a Breville Mixer with Thermal Freezer bowl attachment which whips the icecream.

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Vanilla Bean Icecream

1.5 cups (375 ml) milk

1 vanilla bean pod, split lengthways, seeds removed

4 egg yolks

1/2 cup caster sugar

1.25 cups pure cream

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Heat milk, vanilla seeds and bean in a saucepan over medium heat until bubbles start appearing around the edges. Remove from heat and allow to infuse for further 5 minutes.

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Beat egg yolks and sugar until pale and creamy.

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Remove vanilla bean from saucepan and add in cream. Add small amounts of milk/cream mixture to the egg, beating between additions.  Repeat until all combined.

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Cover and refrigerate mixture for 4 hours (or be impatient and put in freezer for 2 hours!).

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Attach the freezer bowl to mixer, pour in the icecream mixture and set it going on the fold/knead setting for 10-15 minutes until desired consistency is achieved.  At this stage it's like beautiful soft serve icecream so I popped it in the freezer for a further hour to firm up.

Delicious!

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I also made vanilla icecream here and added in Clinkers lollies for yummy flavour!

Cheers - Joolz