No-Cook Strawberry Ice Cream is simple to put together. The most difficult part is waiting for it to freeze completely!
Since there are only a few ingredients, be sure to use the ripest most flavorful strawberries you can find.
No-Cook Strawberry Ice Cream
Makes about 1 1/2 quarts
1 lb. fresh ripe strawberries, trimmed and cut in half
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 tsp. lemon juice
pinch of salt
2 cups heavy cream
Wash strawberries gently and drain well. Cut the stems off the berries, cut them in half, and put them in a medium-sized bowl. Toss with the sugar and the salt.
Then add the lemon juice. With a potato masher or a fork, mash the berries with the sugar. As you mash, leave some large pieces of strawberries if you like pieces of fruit in your ice cream. Or mash berries to a puree consistency.
Let the mixture sit on the counter for about 10 minutes, mixing or mashing occasionally. After a few minutes, the berries will start to release the juice, which will combine with the sugar and make a syrup.
Pour about half of the mashed berries into your blender. Add the cream. Blend until smooth.
Combine the berry-cream puree and the rest of the berry mixture in a bowl. Mix to combine well.
Chill the mixture for 2 or 3 hours to be sure that the ingredients are thoroughly cold when you pour them into your ice cream maker.
Pour the berries and cream mixture into your ice cream maker. Process according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
After a while, the mixture should get thicker, and look kind of like soft serve ice cream. When it’s done, it should look similar to this.
Scoop the ice cream out into a cold freezer-safe container. Press a piece of plastic wrap onto the surface and place in the freezer.
In a few hours or overnight, your ice cream should be frozen solid.
When ready to serve leave it out on the counter for a few minutes to let it thaw slightly to normal creamy ice cream consistency.
Did You Know?
The ice cream cone’s invention is linked to the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis. An ice cream vendor reportedly didn’t have enough dishes to keep up with the demand, so he teamed up with a waffle vendor who rolled his waffles into cones!
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