Peppermint Ice Cream Recipe
Peppermint ice cream is a favorite Christmas ice cream flavor everywhere. With this easy recipe, you’ll be bringing delicious ice cream home for the holidays!
Top with whipped cream for a little more indulgence.
For a little extra flavor and pizazz, you can mix chocolate sticks into the ice cream as well…Who ever said that ice cream wasn’t for the winter?
Adding the Peppermint
For this recipe, you’re going to need to crush peppermint candies.
You can use round peppermint candies or candy canes. Either will work just fine.
How To Crush Peppermint
You can crush the peppermint candies in one of two ways.
With a Food Processor
Simply put your candies in the food processor and pulse on and off until candies get to the desired size.
Manually
If you don’t have a food processor, you can crush the candies manually.
Place candies in a seal-able plastic bag. Remove the air and seal.
To crush the candy, you can use a rolling pin or mallet. If you don’t have that, an iron skillet or a hammer would work as well.
Pound the candies with your chosen “crushing tool,” until candies are crushed to your desired size.
Size of Crushed Pieces
Depending on what texture you like, you can grind the peppermint candies up almost to powder or you can coarsely crush them for peppermint chunks in your ice cream.
If you choose to leave the peppermint more coarse, just be sure that the chunks aren’t too big or they may hurt your ice cream maker.
Serving Tip
Scoop out ice cream into festive bowls and place either a long chocolate stick or a candy cane into the ice cream in each bowl.
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Peppermint Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1 cup milk
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 2 cups whipping cream
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp peppermint extract
- ⅔ cup crushed hard peppermint candies
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate sticks (optional) or can use shaved dark chocolate
Instructions
- With a whisk, mix milk and sugar together so that the sugar dissolves completely.
- Add heavy whipping cream, vanilla, and peppermint extract and stir until completely blended.
- Pour this mixture into your ice cream maker.
- Churn in ice cream maker about 20-25 minutes or according to manufacturer’s instructions.
- Add crushed hard peppermint candy to churning mixture.
- Churn for an additional 5 minutes.
- Transfer peppermint ice cream to storage container and mix in chocolate sticks, if desired.
- Enjoy!
- Helpful Hint: What texture do you want? You can either grind up the peppermint candies to a powder or coarsely crush to small peppermint chunks. Be careful not to make the chunks too big or they may damage your ice cream maker.
Peppermint Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 eggs
- ⅔ cup granulated sugar
- 1 cup milk
- 2 cups whipping cream
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp peppermint extract
- ⅔ cup crushed hard peppermint candies about 30
- 1/2 cup dark chocolate sticks (optional) or can use shaved dark chocolate
Instructions
- Place eggs in a small bowl and beat well with sugar.
- In a saucepan, heat milk until it starts to bubble.
- Pour hot milk over beaten egg mixture. Stir well.
- Pour this mixture back into saucepan and heat, stirring constantly until mixture becomes thick and sticks to the back of a spoon.
- Chill for at least 2 hours.
- After mixture is chilled, stir in cream, vanilla, and peppermint extract.
- Pour this ice cream base into your ice cream machine.
- Mix for 20-25 minutes (or according to manufacturer’s instructions).
- Into the churning ice cream, pour the crushed peppermint candies.
- Mix 5 more minutes.
- As you transfer the ice cream to another container, stir in chocolate sticks, if desired.
- Get ready for another ice cream favorite you’ll want to make again and again!
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