Blackcurrant ripple ice cream

Blackcurrant ripple ice cream

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Cooking time

Ready in 45 minutes plus freezing

Skill level

Easy

Servings

Serves 8

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

Nutrition and extra info

Nutrition info

Nutrition per serving

kcalories
638
protein
5.8g
carbs
60.2g
fat
43.2g
saturates
24.5g
fibre
1.8g
sugar
-
salt
0.23g

Ingredients

  • 400g blackcurrants
  • 100ml apple juice
  • 200g golden caster sugar
  • 568ml double cream
  • 397g tin sweetened condensed milk
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract

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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.

Recipe from olive magazine, August 2009

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valrogers's picture
5

Smooth and silky, unlike many other unchurned ice creams. Bit too sweet but can will use less sugar next time. Made with raspberries, but I guess other soft fruit would work well. Made for 2 of us, large portions but have hardly made a dent in it!

gdcolledge's picture
5

Incredibly fattening, but worth it. This ice cream is easy to make and absolutely divine. Have made it lots of times.

rachelehill's picture
4

I found this recipe whilst looking for some inspiration to use up a jar of blackcurrants preserved in rum. I substitued the apple juice for the rum from the jar and OH WOW!!!!! I will definitely be doing this again :)

claudinesma's picture
5

Made this at the weekend, the day before it was required. It was delicious and so easy to make. I made to go with a lemon tart, so omitted the blackcurrants and swirled in lemon curd.I also used light condensed milk. Every body loved it, even fussy teenagers. Its a great base to add other flavours. I made half the quantity for in the recipie for 4 people and we have some left over, so wondered if anyone knows how long it will keep in the freezer. To Toller Gastonomy I took it out of freezer as I was serving it & it was perfect.

oxella's picture
5

Very nice. Used Elmlea double cream, but it worked out very well. Will try and make it with chocolate the next time.

sbradley's picture
5

Forgot to say that I used light condensed milk and elmlea to cut down on the calories and fat content. Was really creamy but must be healthier!

sbradley's picture
5

Made this last weekend and was absolutely delicious. I also liked the fact that it made a lot and was very easy, apart from pushing the blackcurrants through the sieve! Am just about to make some more.

katiebizarre's picture
5

So easy! I have also made this with a tin of custard instead of condensed milk and added crushed meringues - mmm....
You could use low fat Elmlea and low fat custard or condensed milk light if you wanted to make it healthier :0)

shewolffe's picture
5

I absolutely love this recipe - the icecream is creamy and sweet and works perfectly with the swirls of sharp blackcurrant. I've used lemon curd instead of the blackcurrant as well, and that is pretty scrumptious too.

zenalae's picture
5

oh, wow. made this today and used strawberries instead of blackcurrants and it is sooo creamy and tastes absolutely delish :) will definitely make again, maybe experimenting with different fruits!

cewheeler's picture
5

Very easy to make and very yummy! Great way to use up the blackcurrants. Would keep well but gets eaten too fast in our household! I use condensed milk light version.

myragrier's picture

i had some left in my mixing bowl after putting it in the freezer. what can i say?? yum yum yum, my daughter and i devoured it. even without the syrup it is delicious but any fruit would suit it, even chocolate would be great. will defo make it again. shame about the calories!!!!

cerys11's picture
5

Me and my sister (mostly me) makes this Ice - cream and we have made it about 5 or 6 times! No kidding! In fact we made it today and we didn't have enough double cream so we used Greek Style Yoghurt and it tasted good but it is still in freezer and we can't wait to try it! x :)

surreysue's picture

This is absolutely delicious. I had to stop myself having a second helping and I'm not even a big ice-cream fan. It's also extremely easy to make; no faffing around churning every couple of hours. Can't wait to try it out on my family.

123carol's picture
5

yummy will make this again with a little less sugar in the blackcurrants as i like tart fruit

chaplin65's picture
5

found it hard too find a ice cream recipe i could use, but this did the trick! brilliant and my daughter subsituted in different fruits to make different flavours! would recommend (:

kypnut's picture
5

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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