Honey Vanilla Goat Milk Ice Cream

Its summer time and that means hot days, cold treats!  Homemade with fresh ingredients preferably, right? Right.

Meet Dische (pronounced Dish). She is our Nigerian Dwarf currently in milk.  She is a first freshener and while we are both still getting the hang of this milking thing she has blessed our family with a lot of milk.  So beyond drinking it fresh I wanted to make some food with it, specifically ice cream, per my teens requests.

 

 

I'd been looking for some ice cream recipes to try using our raw goat milk and I finally came across this post via Facebook.  The four recipes included were perfect because:

• they required no cooking
• had minimal ingredient requirements
• offered variations
• I could use goat milk!!!

 Honey Vanilla Goat Milk Ice Cream

 Ingredients

• 4 Fresh Eggs
• 6 Cups Goat Milk
• 1 Cup Honey (we did use a bit less and it is still very sweet)
• 4 tsp. Vanilla

Yields: Around 2 Quarts

 

Pre-prep: Place a 9x12 stainless pan in the freezer to chill while you gather ingredients and prepare the ice cream mixture if not using an ice cream maker.

Step One 

Add eggs, milk, vanilla, and honey in a stainless steel bowl over an ice bath. 

Step Two

 

 

Whisk ingredients together until thoroughly blended.

Step Three

 

 

Pour ice cream mixture in to stainless pan that has been chilling in freezer.  Place pan in freezer and set timer for 20 minutes.  Take pan out, stir vigorously to break up portions beginning to freeze.  Place pan back in freezer, set timer for 30 minutes, remove, stir, and continue this process until ice cream is set up to the consistency you like.

This mixture can also be placed in an ice cream maker if you have one, we don't so we used the above option - patience is hard! LOL. 

 

*Note - If you use an ice cream maker this recipe yields 2 quarts, be sure your machine can handle that much before making it or reduce the recipe.

We found this to be the most delicious ice cream we've had in a very long time.  I love that the ingredients were fresh and there was no sugar used! I know this will be a consistent recipe used and we can't wait to try some variations of flavors.