Re: ok you ice cream makers..need you suggestion

[Guest guest]

You could easily sub cashews, pumpkin, hard winter squash, or even mild white

beans for the creamy factor (replacing the cream cheese-could also use greek

style yogurt or a combination of any of these) , rice/nut/almond/grain milk for

the half and half, and skip the xanthum altogether. The xanthum is a

stabilizer, and just serves to keep it scoopable after freezing, but if you

store the ice cream in individual servings (I use pint mason jars), you can just

set a jar out 20 minutes or so before you want to eat it and it should be a

perfect consistency.

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>

> saw this rec and would like to give it a whirl but am not into all that fat

in the 1/2 and 1/2 ..

>

> would using the xantham gum help if I tried this

> with fat free 1/2 and 1/2 or am I wasting my ingredients trying to make this

low fat ???

>

> this is the recipe I was looking at :

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> 1/2 cup (120 ml) half and half

> 3 ounces (85 g) cream cheese

> 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

> 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

> 1/3 cup (66 g) sugar or other sweetener, to taste

> 1 1/2 cups (224 g) frozen unsweetened strawberries

> 1/2 cup ice cubes

> Whipped topping

> Fresh blueberries

>

[Guest guest]

That looks like a lot of liquid to me. I don't even bother with cream anymore

but if you want to use 1/2 and half It's cut that back. But I've never made one

with cream cheese or lemon juice.or water ice either.

When I make Ice cream its no more than about 4 T with something approaching

liquid.

On Mar 31, 2012, at 2:51 PM, crenita2 wrote:

>

> saw this rec and would like to give it a whirl but am not into all that fat

in the 1/2 and 1/2 ..

>

> would using the xantham gum help if I tried this

> with fat free 1/2 and 1/2 or am I wasting my ingredients trying to make this

low fat ???

>

> this is the recipe I was looking at :

>

> 1/2 cup (120 ml) half and half

> 3 ounces (85 g) cream cheese

> 1 tablespoon fresh lemon juice

> 1/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

> 1/3 cup (66 g) sugar or other sweetener, to taste

> 1 1/2 cups (224 g) frozen unsweetened strawberries

> 1/2 cup ice cubes

> Whipped topping

> Fresh blueberries

>

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