52 Weeks of Bad A** Bacteria – Week 25 – Kefir Ice Cream

Last week, we discussed milk kefir and kefired cream, so I won’t go into a lot of detail about the subject. However, I did promise a recipe for kefir ice cream! This ice cream is a probiotic treat – rich, tangy, creamy, nourishing, and delicious! This is not the kind of ice cream that you sit down and eat a ton of. It is very rich, due to the fact that the recipe only calls for kefir cream. You only need a very small serving to be satiated, however, the tangy flavor of the kefir does help cut through some of the richness.

Over the years, I have experimented with a lot of different ice cream recipes. The thing that I always struggled with, and I hear other people struggle with too, is that homemade ice cream sets up as hard as a rock. I always wondered if there was a way around that, without using stabilizers and other junk. Thankfully, I stumbled across a post from GNOWFGLINS and my ice cream making improved dramatically. Wardeh gives 7 tips for perfect homemade ice cream, and the two things that took my ice cream to a new level are:

• Use more cream and less milk. Like Wardeh, I use 100% cream in my recipes (no milk or 1/2 and 1/2 — just cream).
• Use a solid sweetener like coconut sugar, rapadura, sucanat, or organic cane sugar. Using liquid sweeteners like honey and maple syrup adds more water to the ice cream and leads to a harder setup in the freezer. Also, it is helpful if the sugar is super fine, so I whiz mine up in my food processor first.

Now, my homemade ice cream does get hard, but not so hard that I can’t scoop it out of the container if I’m impatient and just want to eat ice cream now! That said, homemade ice cream does taste much better when it has been allowed to warm up just a tad. A little meltiness (like the photo above) of the cream allows for the rich flavors to become much more prominent. Try letting it sit out for 5-10 minutes before serving. Try topping it with some homemade coconut oil “Magic Shell” for an extra special treat!

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