This raw milk ice cream recipe is so satisfying and nutritious! I often use it as a dinner substitute when I am too lazy to cook. Note: This is a no-heat recipe.
Combine in blender:
- 6 pastured egg yolks (choose organic or pastured eggs when consuming raw)
- ¼ teaspoon salt (like this)
- ¾ cup sugar (or maple syrup)
- 2-3 teaspoons vanilla (like this)
- 1 cup raw milk
- 1-2 tablespoons collagen hydrolysate (like this)
Blend until combined.
Then add 3 cups of raw cream or non-homogenized pasteurized heavy cream if you can't find raw. Blend VERY gently until combined. You want to barely combine the cream without whipping the ice cream and creating too much air in the base.
Put in an ice cream maker and enjoy! I use this raw milk ice cream recipe as a vanilla base, and alter it slightly with the following to make different flavors:
- Coffee ice cream: 3 teaspoons decaf instant espresso, 1 tablespoon coffee extract (like this)
- Chocolate ice cream: ½+ cup cocoa power (like this)
- Chocolate chip mint ice cream: crushed chocolate chips (I like chopping this), and blend in a handful of mint leaves.
- Maple walnut ice cream: eliminate vanilla, use maple syrup as sweetener, and add crushed walnuts.
- Salted caramel ice cream: adjust salt to about 2 teaspoons. Melt 1 cup white sugar on medium until liquefied, then immediately add 1 cup of cream and stir until caramel creates a silky sauce. Let sauce cool completely before adding to the ice cream base (to avoid cooking the egg yolks). The caramel sauce takes a little practice to perfect.
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Lauren says
I have a serious peanut butter obsession. How can I make this and add peanut butter ribbons to it?
Catherine says
If it were me, I would make a chocolate ice cream, and then just spoon in peanut butter after it's in the ice cream maker. Let me know how it turns out!
Catherine
Irina says
Please could I confirm? I thought you were discouraging dairy due to vitamin A. I'm confused. Thanks.
Catherine Crow, NTP says
Hi Irina,
This post is from 2012, so it won't reflect my 2023 thoughts. With that said, not everyone needs to reduce or limit dairy, it depends on their symptoms and testing.
Also, any diet should provide wiggle room for treats that bring you joy.
Abundantly,
Catherine
Lauren says
Also, my gelatin is not water soluble. Does that matter?
Saritah says
What's the nutrition profile of this? Fat, protein carbs etc.
Heather says
If I only have regular grass fed gelatin, can I use it in this recipe or should I omit it? (Looks awesome, by the way!)
Catherine says
Thanks Heather! I haven't tried it with regular gelatin. Regular gelatin tends to be harder to digest when not dissolved in a hot fluid, where as the collagen hydrolysate can be used more like a protein powder. If you try it, let me and the other readers know how it works out!
Catherine
Yoli says
Hello, can I ask why you use the Collagen? I have it but want to know if it makes the ice cream not so rock hard after sitting in the freezer.
Thanks ao much
John says
What a great recipe!!!
I have been making both chocolate and vanilla all summer long with 2 pints of raw cream that I have to scope out, it is so thick it won’t pour, and 2 pints A2 whole raw milk. I add on duck egg yolk and 5 chicken yolks,
This is so good and so nutritional dense, I can’t stop eating it.
Catherine says
So glad you enjoy it too 🙂
John m Healy says
I love this recipe. I make it all the time. Vanilla, Chocolate, Chocolate Chocolate chip, add peanut butter to any of the above. What is dinner, this is my dinner now! Yum.
Lena says
Hello! This looks delicious. Do you have a favorite ice cream maker?
Catherine says
I don't! I think they all work pretty much similar.
Irina says
Also egg yolks for vitamin A, too. Sorry! Please clarify. Thanks
Lena says
I’ve made this recipe several times with raw milk and pasteurized cream, but I just finally got my hands on enough raw cream to do it right, and man oh man, that is just the best! I used maple syrup to sweeten it, and we just had banana splits for breakfast! Topped with bits of bacon, Luxardo cherries, and frozen blueberries. My life is so good right now. Thank you!
Catherine Crow, NTP says
Glad you enjoyed the recipe 🙂
Abundantly,
Catherine