Q&A for How to Make Ice Cream

Of course you can. Add sugar to make it sweeter if it's dark chocolate or 100% cocoa.

Just leave it out and substitute a different flavor. You can use any juice such as orange juice to make an orange sherbet-like ice cream. Or, make strawberry ice cream, by adding frozen strawberries to the mixture. Other flavored extracts could be used, such as banana or chocolate extract.

Yes. Just make sure it doesn't mix in with the ice cream.

The milk is mostly there to add volume, so you can replace it with coconut milk or another milk substitute. If you go the all-cream route, follow the custard recipe and avoid overchurning it into butter.

Shake the milk and sugar for 5 minutes. Then when you remove the bag, rinse it gently with cold water so that no salt is left that could get in. The ice cream won't be super creamy, but it will have a good flavor and should be really fast.

If you have a big plastic food container, you can put ice and salt in there and shake.

Of course you can -- just add more sugar if it is unsweetened (100% cocoa powder).

You can follow an easy version How to Make Mochi and put the ice cream on top. A traditional thin mochi that can wrap around the ice cream is a labor-intensive process, pounding glutionous rice and starch into a paste.

The recipes listed here will probably not work too well, but there are some recipes floating around that involve mixing the powder with gelatin. A dry whole milk will turn out better than a nonfat dry milk.

Chill your metal bowl in the freezer overnight before you start, and give your ice cream mix plenty of time to chill before it goes in the machine. Reduce the amount of sugar can also help.

Egg contains protein which "denatures" (loses its structure) when exposed to heat. That's why scrambled eggs looks and tastes so different from raw egg, and why you'd notice right away if you overheated the eggs in your ice cream.

If you don't have a saucepan, make the Philadelphia style base. It doesn't require heating.

Absolutely! Just add a few more spoonfuls of sugar so it doesn't turn out too bitter. However, if you like it strong, you can skip adding more sugar.

It's best to switch to a completely vegan recipe at that point. The easiest one? Freeze bananas, then put them through a food processor or blender until mushy.

You need a generally will need a machine. Try following the steps in the article.

Maybe you did, but it's more likely you didn't mix the heavy whipping cream enough.

You can use whole milk or half and half in place of the cream.

Yes, it will make a milkshake. If you blend it, it will help the ingredients mix together and the ice cream will be softer. By freezing it after blending, you create a soft ice cream, not a frozen milkshake.

Vanilla just for flavor, it can be omitted entirely (though it is a big part of custard flavor).

You can make some yourself using an ice cube tray, or you could freeze the ice cream to keep it cold.

Yes, it will. Milk is milk.

The ice cream won't have a rich and creamy a texture if you use skim milk. If you don't mind a thinner, lighter texture, you can try it.

There is a recipe that uses sweetened condensed milk, but it's the no-churn style. You can't replace the whole milk in the custard base recipe with condensed milk.

You will need to add the mint flavor using peppermint extract and add chocolate chips.

You could, but your finished product may turn out differently.

You cannot make ice cream with only milk, sugar, and vanilla. That would simply give you sweet, vanilla-flavored milk. The recipes in this article require egg yolks or heavy cream to provide thickness.

I'm sorry, but that does not work. You will just get frozen milk. You need to add the other ingredients to get the right consistency.

Whipping cream and heavy cream are usually the same thing, so it would work fine.

Ice cream doesn't contain flour.

You could use regular salt, but it will take longer. Rock salt is usually cheaper than table salt too, so when you're using a large amount that you're only going to throw away, it's more economical.