If you have any leftover pumpkin from Halloween, this is a terrific way to use it up. This delectable ice cream is made with milk, spices, and pumpkin puree. Make your own pumpkin puree.
| Prep Time: | 20 mins |
| Cook Time: | 10 mins |
| Additional Time: | 7 hrs 20 mins |
| Total Time: | 7 hrs 50 mins |
| Servings: | 8 |
| Yield: | 8 servings |
Ingredients
- 1 cup homemade pumpkin puree
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 vanilla bean, halved lengthwise and seeds scraped out
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 ¼ cups dark brown sugar, divided
- 5 egg yolks
- ½ teaspoon ground cinnamon
- ½ teaspoon ground ginger
- 1 pinch salt
- 1 pinch ground nutmeg
Instructions
- Combine pumpkin puree, vanilla extract, and scraped vanilla bean seeds in a bowl.
- Combine 3/4 of the cream and 1/2 of the brown sugar in a saucepan. Bring to a gentle simmer over low heat.
- Combine remaining cream, remaining sugar, egg yolks, cinnamon, ginger, salt, and nutmeg in a second bowl and stir until sugar has dissolved. Pour in hot cream mixture, 2 tablespoons at a time, stirring constantly until combined.
- Pour mixture into the top of a double boiler over simmering water. Simmer until mixture thickens and no longer drips off the spatula.
- Remove from heat and pass through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl. Set bowl into a larger bowl filled with ice water. Stir constantly until cooled.
- Stir in pumpkin puree mixture. Cover surface with plastic wrap to prevent a skin from forming. Refrigerate for a minimum of 4 hours or up to 1 day.
- Pour mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions, about 20 minutes. Transfer to an airtight container and freeze until firm, about 3 hours.
- You can roast or slow-cook your pumpkin to make puree. Try this recipe for homemade
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Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 345 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 29 g |
| Cholesterol | 210 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 1 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 15 g |
| Sodium | 127 mg |
| Sugars | 25 g |
| Fat | 25 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
it was for sure really good but the texture was really weird . But the flavor was amazing though,7/10
This stuff is delicious!! I typically don’t care for pumpkin spice anything but this was really delicious. I even added a small scoop to my coffee and loved it.