Home-made Egg-less ice-creams: Rose-water Ice-cream

In an attempt to experiment more with home-made ice-creams we tried out rose-water ice-cream at home. The biggest challenge in using rose-water is that it is a very delicate flavour that will loose it's potency if cooked and can be easily overpowered by the use of corn flour or custard powder. So we tried to make our Rose-water ice-cream without the use of corn flour, eggs or custard powder. While, it was not as smooth and creamy as the coconut ice-cream, it still turned out great with the flavour of rose-water intact and is totally refreshing. Can't wait for summer to roll on soon so that we can make more of these...



You will need (to make around 1 ltr):
500 ml evaporated milk
250 ml whole milk
284 ml double/whipping cream
100 g caster sugar
1/8 tsp salt
4-5 tbsps rose water (use more or less depending on how strong you like the flavour to be)
few drops of pink food colouring

Home-made Egg-less ice-creams: Coconut ice-cream

Today is the second day of blue skies and sunny weather, albeit, with cold temperatures around 1 degrees Celsius. Just seeing the lovely blue skies made us all think of warm summer weather. Hopefully, we will have it soon. Along with thoughts of summer came thoughts of ice-creams: rich, creamy and freezing cold. Since, we now are proud owners of a simple electric ice-cream maker (nothing fancy), we thought "why not make our own ice-cream". My all-time favourite, when it comes to ice-cream, is Coconut ice-cream. So we decided to try that one first. Most ice-cream recipes use egg-based custard to give the creamy body to the ice-creams. But none of us care for the egg-y flavour creeping in our ice-creams. Another way to give the texture and body to the ice-cream is by using packaged custard powder which is mainly made of corn flour, other flavourings and colourings. We thought that we will ditch the artificial flavourings and colourings and simply use the corn flour like they do in Italian Gelato. Luckily, for us amateurs, our first ice-cream turned out great.


You will need (makes 1.5 ltr) :
2 cans of coconut milk (total 800 ml)
150 g condensed milk
1/4 cup dessicated coconuts
100 g granulated white sugar
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp corn flour
284 ml double/whipping cream