Lavender Blueberry Ice Cream
From suzyqt1968 17 years ago
- 30-45 minutes to make
- Serves 48
This is a great flavorful recipe with incredible color. Posted on another cooking forum by a lady who goes by Blue_Moon. She always has the best stuff
Ingredients
- 1 cup blueberries, rinsed shopping list
- 3/4 cup sugar shopping list
- 2 tablespoons dried culinary lavender blossoms shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla shopping list
- 3 cups half-and-half shopping list
How to make it
- In a 1- to 1 1/2-quart pan over medium-high heat, stir blueberries, sugar, and 1/2 cup water until berries begin to pop, 4 to 5 minutes. Pour mixture through a fine strainer set over a bowl. Pour blueberries into a blender. Return berry syrup to pan.
- Add lavender to syrup and stir over medium heat until syrup is infused with flavor, about 5 minutes. Strain into blender, pressing to extract liquid. Discard lavender.
- Add cinnamon and vanilla to blender; whirl until mixture is smooth. Pour into a bowl, nest in ice water, and stir often until cold, about 15 minutes. Stir in half-and-half.
- Pour chilled mixture into an ice cream maker (1 1/2-qt. or larger capacity). Freeze according to manufacturer's directions until firm enough to scoop. Serve, or transfer to a container and freeze, airtight, up to 1 week.
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