Vanilla bean ice cream

After many failures, we finally bought an ice cream maker. It was on sale at Myer last week and we made vanilla bean ice cream over the weekend.  Luckily it was a great success.

Ingredients
1 cup of milk
1 cup of cream
1/2 cup of sugar
4 egg yolks
1 vanilla pod

First you chill the ice cream bucket for 24 hours. Heat the milk and cream in a saucepan with the vanilla pod, split and de-seeded. Beat the yolks and sugar until stiff, add heated milk/cream mixture and reheat, removing the vanilla pod. Allow to cool before placing in the fridge for 4 hours. Then churn for 40 minutes.  This makes 800 ml of ice cream, so 4 people polished that off in 2 sittings... (ie. equivalent of 8 scoops)

It was creamy and delicious... not too hard and just delicious. Yippee... the Razzaforino Scoopitable Scream idea may have life in it after all...

We had the ice cream with a chocolate raspberry brownie... it was yummy...