Blackcurrant ripple ice cream

Blackcurrant ripple ice cream

This simple-as-anything ice cream needs no churning. Serve with buttery shortbread or think almond biscuits

Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 45 minutes plus freezing

Method

  1. Put the blackcurrants and the apple juice in a small pan, bring to a simmer and cook for 5 minutes. Add the sugar, heat gently until dissolved, then bring to the boil and simmer gently for 3-4 minutes to thicken the syrup a little. Cool, then scoop out 3 tbsp of the currants and keep to one side. Purée the rest of the currants and the syrup with a hand blender and rub through a sieve to get rid of the pips.
  2. Beat the double cream to soft peaks, then pour in the condensed milk and vanilla extract and whisk again to soft peaks. Pour the mixture into a freezer-proof box, and drizzle over half of the blackcurrant purée. With a rubber spatula or large spoon, stir the mixture once in a figure-of-eight, just to ripple the purée through. Cover with a lid and freeze for at least 3 hours.
  3. To serve, mix the rest of the purée with the saved blackcurrants. Scoop the ice cream into glasses and spoon over the purée.

Per serving

638 kcalories, protein 5.8g, carbohydrate 60.2g, fat 43.2 g, saturated fat 24.5g, fibre 1.8g, salt 0.23 g

Recipe from olive magazine, August 2009.

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  • 2009-07-29 14:12:25.105399

    Mimi rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    OH. MY. GOD! This is absolutely delicious. I have to confess that I did fiddle with it -as I do all recipes- and not being a fan of blackcurrants, substituted raspberries. I also added a tbsp (or 2!) of framboise (raspberry liqueur) to the syrup. I have tried recipes for 'no-churn' ice cream and I'm always disappointed. But this! Exactly..EXACTLY like churned ice cream straight from the the freezer and it was out of this world. Rich and with a good mix of sweet and tart and the syrup was to die for - and I know exactly what's in it. I shall use it as a base for other flavour ice creams. With PYO raspberries this was very cheap given no ice cream machine needed. Please try it, you will never churn ice cream again!

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  • 2010-02-23 15:55:27.603006

    Weeyin rated this recipe

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  • 2010-05-03 13:57:39.21006

    missmolly rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Tastes delicious. Easy to make but was much better after being left overnight in the freezer.

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  • 2010-06-30 12:14:46.124278

    JOOLES rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I have never made ice-cream before and my BF the other bday said how he would love some homemade. So im going to give this a go. My idea is im going to buy a Dragon fruit, as they look like so much fun and ive been wanting to try one of these. Im going to cut one in half and scoop the flesh out of each half, cut them into small chunks and carefully put back into the dragon fruit shells, with some other fruit cut into chunks, and i then will serve this delicious sounding ice-cream alongside. Yum, i hope.

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  • 2010-07-05 13:44:09.429314

    Fluffysammy rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Been making ice cream for years and years but never with condensed milk, what a dif it makes, def will always use it from now on. I used strawberrys and raspberrys with chunks of white choc

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  • 2010-07-05 22:04:56.597508

    cjraway rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This is great and very easy. We cheated in every possible way and it was still perfect. We used 1 carton Elmlea double and one normal double cream. We made our own condensed milk (evap milk and sugar)and used cranberry juice instead of apple. (We had decided to make the ice cream before checking the cupboards!!) We did however, stick to the blackcurrants. After the second whipping of the cream we couldn't get it back to stiff peaks (Elmlea?!?) so put it in the freezer a bit runny. This also meant that the blackcurrant syrup needed a really good 'rippling' as it all sank to the bottom when it was poured in. There was a little mixture that wouldn't fit into our ice cream container so we left that unrippled and added some broken chocolate chip cookies (needed good stirring to get them off the bottom). Will be making the ice cream again this weekend with a chocolate sauce and peanut butter chips. Also going to add an extra tsp of vanilla.

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  • 2010-07-10 18:42:09.645704

    Janika rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    I made this today using strawberries pureed with some sugar and vanilla seeds instead of the cooked blackcurrants. Absolutely delicious, and perfect no cook recipe on a hot day!

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  • 2010-07-12 13:53:52.080432

    JOOLES commented on this recipe

    This was lovely and sooooo easy. I did everything as i said above. I used raspberries instead as we have a massive bush of them this year. I felt it was even better a couple of days later. A success, I will definetly be making this again.

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  • 2010-07-17 20:02:31.967217

    Becks rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Made this using a mix of summer berries to serve with vanilla almond shortbreads for a special Sunday lunch. Trouble is it's Saturday night and people keep "testing" it. Only tip is that it needed freezing overnight but that could just be my freezer. Will definitely make again with salted caramel and nuts...

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  • 2010-07-29 10:25:08.82213

    joefizz rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Outstanding! I did the same recipe with Blackberries and it was equally delicious!

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  • 2010-08-02 05:48:05.705106

    Karen E rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Wonderfully easy and so delicious. Will certainly make again and will experiment with other fruits. Well done!

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  • 2010-08-06 22:20:09.121069

    JudeR rated and commented on this recipe

    4 stars

    Easy to make. Used blackcurrants from my mum's garden. Had a bit too much blackcurrant puree as I mixed it all with the cream mixture. Think I would double the cream/milk parts to the same fruit. I scrapped the seeds from a vanilla pod instead of using extract. Really nice flavour.

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  • 2010-09-05 11:35:08.671786

    granny B commented on this recipe

    Made this a while back and it was really lovely. I'm going to make it again this week for a dinner party and going to include some Baileys. Fingers crossed !!

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  • 2010-10-23 14:31:33.724554

    Janet rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    I made this with a raspberry puree from home grown fruit.Really easy and very creamy. I'll try it again with other fruit.

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  • 2010-11-16 12:48:29.832987

    Malinke rated this recipe

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  • 2010-12-29 19:56:48.806109

    Julie S rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Worked perfectly. I did use my ice-cream maker just to speed up the process. Great way to use up the usual summer glut of blackcurrants which languish in the freezer for most of the year! Served with wee home-made meringues.

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  • 2011-01-17 11:34:58.779752

    Colette rated and commented on this recipe

    1 stars

    Sorry folks but I found this very disappointing. I'm only giving two stars because the flavour before it was frozen was very promising but the end result was not at all like ice cream. It was frozen and it was creamy but definitely not like ice cream. Will have to try some other recipe I'm afraid!

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  • 2011-03-26 11:12:08.408162

    Esther Mary rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    Delicious, could only eat a small amount though as it was so sweet. really easy to make. i used raspberry's for my ripple and they contrasted really well with the sweetness of the cream.

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  • 2011-04-14 11:41:33.620814

    lizzy dripping commented on this recipe

    Hi, Hubby and I are on a low fat diet, could I substitute the cream with a low fat something or other. (we're new to this diet)!!

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  • 2011-04-26 12:48:26.128044

    the boys mum rated and commented on this recipe

    5 stars

    This was fantastic served it at a dinner party and everyone loved it, so easy to make. Will deffo make again

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Difficulty and servings

Easy

Serves 8

Preparation and cooking times

Total time

Ready in 45 minutes plus freezing

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Per serving

638 kcalories, protein 5.8g, carbohydrate 60.2g, fat 43.2 g, saturated fat 24.5g, fibre 1.8g, salt 0.23 g

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