Buy your family an ice cream maker! If you have kids, teach them how to read a recipe and use it! Then come back here to this blog post and leave a comment of appreciation for encouraging this behavior while you enjoy your homemade blueberry cheesecake ice cream. *insert BIG CHESHIRE CAT GRIN*
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The Ice Cream Maker
I’ll forever be grateful for my sister in law and her children for gifting the gift that keeps on giving for my son’s 11th birthday last summer:
Grab some Rock Salt (you can find it in every grocery store on the spice/baking aisle for just a few dollars), this recipe here, and your ingredients.
Oh and make sure you have ice! Just enough to cover up to the ice cream mixture line in the canister.
Note: be sure not to get salt on the lid of the canister and accidentally drop some rock salt into the ice cream while you are checking consistency. It will RUIN your ice cream. Ask me how I know…
How long does it take to make ice cream at home?
Using the ice cream maker above, your family can be enjoying soft serve ice cream in less than 1 hour of churn time.
You control the ice cream ingredients
We adore making our own ice cream whenever we want now because we get to control the ingredients!
Making our own ice cream enables us to use raw cow’s milk and cream, our own homemade vanilla extract, and non-GMO raw cane sugar.
Using fresh fruit we grow ourselves or pick at a U-Pick farm for recipes like this blueberry cheesecake ice cream one make this treat that much more enjoyable.
What other flavors can I make from this ice cream recipe?
This recipe allows you to get super creative with flavors!
We have made strawberry, chocolate, coffee chocolate, cookie dough, pumpkin cheesecake, blueberry, and now blueberry cheesecake.
Simply add those extra ingredients to this recipe. The cocoa powder and instant coffee packets are easy because they are dry ingredients. The fruits are best puréed first in a blender so there aren’t as many hard fruit pieces to chew through.
This is especially helpful for young children to eat their ice cream easier.
If using puréed fruit, for this recipe, 1 cup is sufficient.
How much ice cream does this blueberry cheesecake ice cream recipe make?
This blueberry cheesecake ice cream recipe makes about 1 quart of ice cream.
Feel free to double the recipe to make more.
Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
Ingredients:
- whole milk, 1 cup
- heavy cream, 2 cups
- sugar, 3/4 cup
- salt, 1 generous pinch
- vanilla extract, 1 TBSP
- block of cream cheese, 8 ounces
- blueberries puréed, 1 cup
- graham crackers (optional)
How to make blueberry cheesecake ice cream:
- Start by adding milk, sugar, and salt in a standing mixer or mixing bowl. Stir well and allow the sugar and salt to dissolve. Perhaps allow this mixture to sit for 3-5 minutes then give it one more good stir.
- During this wait time, put one block of cream cheese and 1 cup of blueberries into blender and blend until smooth.
- Now stir in the heavy cream, vanilla, and blueberry/cream cheese mixture into the milk mixture. Mix together until well incorporated.
- Next, place bowl in the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour. Be sure to follow your ice cream maker’s instructions. Ours includes chilling the empty ice cream canister in the freezer for 1 hour as well.
- After chill time is up, pour ice cream mixture into the canister and insert it into the ice cream maker bucket per maker’s instructions. Close canister with lid.
- Now add ice and rock salt as maker instructs into the ice cream maker’s bucket.
- Apply power to the ice cream maker and allow it to churn for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until consistency is desired.
- Enjoy now or store in ice cream containers (linked in blog post) and freeze for later.
Note about consistency when using fruit purée
When making homemade ice cream using fresh or frozen fruits to purée, fruit will add extra water to this recipe as fruits are mostly water.
This will make the ice cream more icy than creamy; HOWEVER, it is still a very creamy ice cream recipe!
Furthermore, the iciness observation is when comparing added fruit ice creams to plain vanilla or chocolate or pumpkin cheesecake which add way less water content to the mixture.
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Ice cream containers (disposable)
Ice cream containers (reusable)
If you liked blueberry cheesecake ice cream, try these recipes next:
Vanilla and Chocolate Ice Cream
Sourdough Discard Graham Crackers
Core Childhood Summer Memories MADE
Growing up spending summers at Nana’s river house was the best! And homemade ice cream was a part of it.
With the oldest electric ice cream maker I’ve ever seen, our Nana would make peach ice cream (the most popular), vanilla ice cream, and strawberry ice cream for her grandkids.
We’d take a break from swimming in our “rivah” to exercise patience in preparing the ice cream mixture while dripping all over her kitchen floors. Then sit, impatiently, on the front porch while it churned.
Peach ice cream was absolutely the BEST homemade right out of the canister on those hot summer days.
Finally, if you want to make core childhood memories with your children, teach them what homemade ice cream tastes like and how to make it themselves. Neither of you will regret it.
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Blueberry Cheesecake Ice Cream
Ingredients
Equipment
Method
- Start by adding milk, sugar, and salt in a standing mixer or mixing bowl. Stir well and allow the sugar and salt to dissolve. Perhaps allow this mixture to sit for 3-5 minutes then give it one more good stir.
- During this wait time, put one block of cream cheese and 1 cup of blueberries into blender and blend until smooth.
- Now stir in the heavy cream, vanilla, and blueberry/cream cheese mixture into the milk mixture. Mix together until well incorporated.
- Next, place bowl in the refrigerator to chill for 1 hour. Be sure to follow your ice cream maker’s instructions. Ours includes chilling the empty ice cream canister in the freezer for 1 hour as well.
- After chill time is up, pour ice cream mixture into the canister and insert it into the ice cream maker bucket per maker’s instructions. Close canister with lid.
- Now add ice and rock salt as maker instructs into the ice cream maker’s bucket.
- Apply power to the ice cream maker and allow it to churn for 45 minutes to 1 hour, or until consistency is desired.
- Top with crushed graham crackers and a few whole blueberries in a serving bowl.
- Enjoy now or store in ice cream containers (linked in blog post) and freeze for later.
Notes
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