Tag: strawberry

Strawberry Buttercream Icing

Ingredients

  • Icing mix
  • Butter
  • Fresh strawberries
  • Milk

I have no idea of the quantities I used. Maybe 2 cups icing mix, 125g butter and a handful of strawberries? A dash of milk to improve consistency.

Method

  1. Mix icing mix and butter together (turns out you should actually cream the butter first. This causes a lighter colour and texture)
  2. Mash and strain strawberries to remove seeds.
  3. Mix it all together and check consistency. Add a little milk if needed. If you can’t spread it, it’s too thick (add milk), if it runs off your spatula, it is too thin and needs more icing mix.

Condensed Milk Strawberry Icecream

Total time: 6 hours; Prep time: 20 minutes (unless you have to run to the store and get cream); Setting time: 5 hours

Ingredients

  • 1 can condensed milk (I used Nestle skim)
  • 300mL whipping cream
  • Approx 250g frozen strawberries (juice and all)

Method

  1. Whip condensed milk in standmixer for what feels like forever.
  2. Give up and whip cream instead (take out the condensed milk first).
  3. Chop up strawberries into small pieces (no bigger than 5mm cubed)
  4. Fold all together and freeze for a few hours
  5. Serve frozen (unless you just want cream, not icecream)

Un-Whipped Condensed Milk Icecrean

I got a stand mixer babyyyy!!! I was so excited. I did research, borrowed my neighbour’s KitchenAid and spoke with my Mum about hers. This is a decision that has been years in the making, and I finally did it! I ended up with a Sunbeam Master One and I am so happy! Yes it can be loud on the highest setting, but oh well. I don’t use that setting too often.

Anyway, this post is about icecream (here is the recipe). I wanted to use condensed milk to create a 2 ingredient icecream where I would whip the condensed milk and then add chopped frozen strawberries. So I got all excited and looked into it and found noone had seemed to try it before and document it! Bingo! My market. The only advice I could really find was to refrigerate the condensed milk first, so I did that. Got out my stand mixer, put on the whisk attachment and pressed go.

One shiny new stand mixer!

I watched as it spun and spun and…nothing really happened.

Before whisking
After whisking for… a long time

These are my before/after images. Appologies for the strange lighting, but you can still tell that the milk has lightened slightly and has bubbles in it. I think it looks like pancake mix!

What I was hoping for was a light fluffy texture, and what I got was, well, condensed milk.

Not to waste good igredients (I also just wanted icecream!), I went to the shops and grabbed some whipping cream. Whipped it up real good and folded the condensed milk into the cream. Just add the thawed strawberries and viola! It was ready to set (stuff churning it, I just threw it in the freezer).

After a couple of hours I had to try it. This is the first scoop.

How good does that look! It came out super rich thanks to the condensed milk, but still creamy and yum.

Next time, I think I’ll stick to cream and sugar 🙂

Happy Baking!