Copy-Cat Haagen Dazs Strawberry Ice Cream

My all time favourite ice cream was Haagen Dazs... until I tried Messina (LOL, and I still owe a Messina review). Anyway, the most decent ice cream you can get in Jakarta was Haagen Dazs, so whenever I wanted to spoil myself with gourmet ice cream, I would head straight to a Haagen Dazs cafe. Haagen Dazs have just recently made a re-entrance to the Australian market and I'm so stoked about it. Can't wait for their launch in Sydney! Their matcha ice cream is da-bomb!

Two summers ago I purchased a pretty red ice cream maker. I found a Haagen Dazs strawberry copy cat ice cream recipe and wanted to try that out. The strawberries that I purchased at that time were very sweet, so it made the ice cream taste even better! The recent batch that I made taste more like sugar, but I reckon it's because the strawberries were not at their full flavour. Once you have made a homemade ice cream, you will never want to buy a supermarket one which is full of churned air.

This recipe is very easy to follow, but it had omitted one of the most important ingredient in ice cream making which is egg yolks, which is also listed in the ingredients of a Haagen Dazs ice cream. Honestly I'm still too scared about the idea of mixing hot liquid with egg yolk, afraid that the egg yolk would actually scramble. So I stuck with the copy-cat recipe and omit the egg yolk. In the future, I definitely would like to try making ice cream with egg yolks as it will create a creamier texture (yum!).

INGREDIENTS:

2 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
3/4 cup sugar
1 cup diced strawberries

DIRECTIONS:

Clean and cut up the strawberries. Crush it using blender and dtrain the seeds.
Add the sugar to the strawberries, mix.
Measure the heavy cream, milk and vanilla add to a pitcher.
Mix the strawberries with the remaining liquids.
Let the mixture chill in the fridge for several hours.
Turn your ice cream machine on (this is important, do not put the liquid into the ice-maker first) and pour the strawberry mixture into the ice-maker. This takes about 15-20 minutes. When the kitchen aid machine starts making a clicking sound the ice cream is done. Put the ice cream into a container and freeze.