How to make Baileys Brown Sugar Ice Cream

I know, I know.

There are a thousand and one ways to make ice cream from Baileys and I chose the most boring and straightforward flavour pairing.

Well, well. What can I say? Brown sugar and regular Baileys make for a deadly combination together. The molasses from brown sugar add a layer of flavour that goes together very well with the lush creaminess of Irish cream.

The overall scent makes it really palatable.

So here's what you need to do:

1. Beat 2 egg yolks with 30g of brown sugar

2. Heat 100ml of milk in pot and mix the heated milk into the sugar-yolk mixture

3. Transfer back into pot and cook until thickened

4. Stir in 75ml of cream when custard is hot

5. Set aside for 10 minutes and stir in 35ml to 40ml Baileys

6. Hand churn mixture

Ta-da!

Banana ice cream: The simplest fruit ice cream

Alright, let's just cut to the chase.

Here is what you need to make banana ice cream at home:

Before you make the ice cream custard, mash 1-2 ripe bananas (those with brownish spots) with 1-2 teaspoons of lemon or lime juice using a fork to make a banana puree. The lemon/ lime juice will prevent the banana from oxidising too much and beoming overly brown (and look unappetising).

Banana should be finely mashed and when that is done, make the custard.

1. Mix 2 egg yolks and 50g of sugar until pale yellow

2. Heat 140ml of milk in a pot

3. Pour heated milk into egg-sugar mixture

4. Transfer egg-sugar-milk mixture back into pot and cook until thickened

5. Pour completed custard through sieve into banana puree and 60ml cream

6. Whisk everything thoroughly and leave ice cream custard to set in freezer

7. Whisk it thoroughly every 30 minutes and repeat at least twice

Makes about 330ml of ice cream

Feeling a bit adult? You can add a dash of rum to make the ice cream a tad more tropical and flavourful during the final stages of churning. Alternatively, you can always scoop the banana ice cream into a bowl and drown it in rum.

You can also try substituting regular sugar with brown sugar. This helps give this fruit ice cream an extra flavour from the molasses found in brown sugar.

Simplest cookie ice cream ever

One way to get started with making any sort of ice cream is to stop procrastinating. Once you've created the most uncomplicated flavour ever, you have skipped past the first and greatest hurdle.

Home made cookie ice cream happens to fall into this category of really simple ice creams to make. Even if you mess it up, you can still find a way to salvage it.

But let me first show you the list of ingredients you will need:

160ml full cream milk
40g brown sugar
80ml cream
2 yolks
30g double chocolate chip cookie

And here is what you got to do:

1. Heat 160ml milk in sauce pan

2. Mix brown sugar with two egg yolks in a bowl

3. As milk heats up but stops short of boiling, pour heated milk slowly into egg yolk-sugar mix (this method is known as tempering)

4. Stir thoroughly and swiftly as you pour the heated milk and return the tempered egg yolk-sugar-milk mix back into saucepan

5. Cook until custard thickens and coats back of spoon

6. Strain custard through metal sieve into 80ml cream

7. Whisk thoroughly and let custard reach room temperature before putting into freezer to set

8. Remove from freezer every 30 minutes and whisk thoroughly to incorporate air into ice cream custard

9. Mix double chocolate chip cookie when ice cream custard is about to set

Makes about 250ml ice cream. Serves two.

One reason why it is hard to mess this up is because even after you mixed cookies into the ice cream and you find that it is still not as appetising as you imagined, you can count on Hershey's chocolate sauce to make things a little bit more palatable.

If all else fails, transfer the ice cream into blender and pour some full cream milk in and give it a good blend. You will still get yourself a good milk shake.

You don't know where to begin to start making ice cream? Find out here.