I just bought an ice cream freezer and have been trying several ice cream recipes for it. This one is by far my favorite! Great blend of tart and sweet flavor. Creamy, rich texture. The only change I made was in adding crumbled graham crackers the last few minutes of freezing. It makes it tastes a little more like key lime pie and gives it a little crunch as well.
Came out great but only because I didn't follow the instructions at all...
Mix the egg mixture in a bowl. Bring the CREAM mixture to a boil, then slowly wisk hot cream into the egg mixture.
Transfer back to the pot and heat slowly, stirring constantly until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of a spoon. Cool and freeze in an ice cream maker.
This was good but I feel it could be even better. I didn't change anything except I only added 3 yolks instead of 4. I love tart and it was a little too tart even for me but that could be the limes I was using. Also the final product was not as creamy as I would have liked. I'll use a combo of half and half and cream next time. Honestly the custard was better than the finished ice cream! I also added graham cracker pieces to make it more like pie ice cream.
We really liked this ice cream. It's really creamy and refreshing. We made a few changes. We used both sweetened lime juice (1/2 cup) and lemon juice (1/4 cup). We didn't have lemon zest so we omitted that. If we were to make it again we would probably decrease the sugar by half.
Delicious! Rich creamy and refreshing. We will definitely make this again.
Needed an ice cream recipe to use lemons from my lemon tree. Used the juice and "zest" from 4 large lemons and WOW! it was perfect! Very tangy just like we wanted. Might try it without the egg yolks next time to see if it makes it less custardy but for someone that really doesn't like custard I REALLY liked this!
I love this ice cream but I modified it the second time around to make it creamier and take the bite out of the tart. I used 1 cup whole milk and 1 1/4 cup half and half it turned out so creamy and it took the edge off the tartness. Love it
Haven't tried this yet (thus making my rating somewhat moot but you have to put one) but it's next in line. I'm supposing that since it's key lime ice cream key lime juice is intended. I don't know what "half and half cream" is- I'll try just half and half seems like enough eggs for that to work
I made this recipe as written with the exception of omitting the 2 eggs just using the yolks. The texture was beautiful creamy smooth and rich. My only issue was with the level of tartness. I would reduce the lime juice to 1/2 cup and also add a good pinch of salt.
