ice-cream making!!!

awwwwwww making ice-cream at home is something that i've never, ever thought of. i used to have the perception that it can only be made using some sorts of special equipment and for sure i couldn't afford one.

BUT!!!!!!

i came out with the very special HANDMADE ice-cream with leewang yesterday!!!!!!

let's see how i achieved that :D

ingredients

1 big plastic container, 1 small metal bowl, ice cubes, egg beater, 200ml of milk and 1 packet of matcha ice-cream premix

the premix

bought from cold storage, bugis $4.50

container used

i saw this method from a tv show tat i watched years ago -_-

the ice cubes were used for providing a cold environment to the ice-cream mix

metal bowl used for better heat transfer!

start making!!

the ingredients were simply the premix and the 200ml of milk

pour everything into the bowl and mix with the egg beater

the instruction said mix until thickens and if the electronic mixer were used it would take about 2-3 min

but i guess handmaking would be better coz it seemed that  by doing so there might be less air being introduced into the ice-cream, thus giving finer texture?

done mixing!

insisting for better quality, we hand-mixed the mixture for 26 minutes -.-

i expected it to turn thicker that it wouldnt flow easily but at the end of 26 minutes it still moved very freely -_-

it did turn thicker but apparently not very thick kind

ok after mixing just freeze it in freezer for 3 hours!

ICE-CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!

during the 3 hours i couldnt help but kept opening the freezer to check on how well it had been doing and ended up scolded by leewang n my mom. T.T they warned me not to open the freeze again or the ice-cream might take even longer time to settle. OK LOR so i guai-guaily waited for 3 hours :'(

YUM YUM :D

strickly speaking it wasn't really 100% successful 'coz the texture wasn't totally ice-cream-y

the mixture separated into 2 parts, upper layer was more ice-cream-like whereas the lower layer tasted like frozen matcha drink -_- i could even feel the ice on my toungue!

in overall the taste of the ice-cream was pretty good. the upper layer had the ice-cream texture but tastewise it was rather mild, the lower later tasted better but it wasn't ice-cream afterall. i guess the failure was due to the improper mixing maybe? we've decided to try one more time and this time round we'll use the electronic mixer and see how it goes!