Lime Ice Cream Recipe
This key lime ice cream recipe is fresh and full of citrus flavor.
Refreshing!
Variation: How to Make Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
This ice cream is absolutely delicious as is, but you can use this ice cream recipe to easily change it into Key Lime Pie Ice Cream.
Key Lime Pie Variation
If you’d like to turn this ice cream into the Key Lime Pie variation all you have to do is:
Add 1/2 – 3/4 cup of broken graham crackers or broken graham cracker crust to the ice cream during the last 5 minutes of mixing.
An easy addition and another delicious result.
Make it whichever way you want – or perhaps try both!
A Little Bit about Lime Juice
This ice cream recipe works well either with fresh squeezed lime juice or with lime juice from a bottle.
Intensifying the Green Color of the Ice Cream
This ice cream makes a white ice cream.
You may want your ice cream to be a soft green or a vibrant green to compliment the lime flavor.
Simply add green food coloring to the ice cream base before pouring it into your ice cream maker.
Use a yellow based green (rather than a bluish green) or add a bit of yellow with your green to create the right color.
Serving Tip
You can serve this ice cream inside a full 8 inch graham cracker pie crust or serve inside individual sized graham cracker pie crusts to create a Key Lime Pie.
Top with whipped cream.
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Lime Ice Cream
Ingredients
Lime
- ¾ cup lime juice (bottled or fresh squeezed – about 4 limes)
- ¾ cup sugar
Ice Cream Base
- ½ cup milk
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 cups heavy cream
Instructions
- Combine lime juice and 3/4 cup sugar and set aside.
- Mix milk and 3/4 cup sugar, whisking well until sugar has completely dissolved.
- Stir in whipping cream.
- Add lime juice and combine well.
- ***Taste test to ensure that the ice cream base is sweet enough for you.
- Pour mixture into ice cream maker.
- Churn about 25-30 minutes or according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Key Lime Pie Ice Cream Recipe: If you’d like to turn this ice cream into Key Lime Pie ice cream, just add 1/2 – 3/4 cup of broken graham crackers to the ice cream during the last 5 minutes of mixing.
Lime Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients
Lime
- ¾ cup lime juice (bottled or fresh squeezed – about 4 limes)
- ¾ cup sugar
Ice Cream Base
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 eggs
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
Instructions
- Combine lime juice and 3/4 cup sugar and chill.
- Meanwhile, in a medium bowl, beat eggs with remaining 3/4 cup sugar until the mixture turns a pale yellow color. Set aside.
- Heat milk just to boiling in a saucepan.
- Pour the hot milk over the beaten eggs.
- Pour this mixture back into your saucepan.
- Over med heat, stir the milk mixture until it thickens and begins to stick to the back of your spoon.
- Chill completely – at least 3 hours.
- Stir chilled milk mixture and whipping cream together.
- Stir in chilled lime juice.
- ***Taste test to ensure that the ice cream base is sweet enough for you.
- Pour ice cream base into ice cream maker.
- Churn about 25-30 minutes or according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Key Lime Pie Ice Cream Recipe: If you’d like to turn this ice cream into Key Lime Pie ice cream, just add 1/2 – 3/4 cup of broken graham crackers to the ice cream during the last 5 minutes of mixing.
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