Hi everyone, hey, today we're making lemon ice cream. I know it's everybody's favorite time of year to eat ice cream, so that's what we're doing today, but this was requested by one of my viewers. Her name is Susan Gillenwater. Thank you Susan for requesting this. I'm happy to make it. We're going to make it as nice and creamy and just delicious as we can, and I hope you all like it. I have a question for you though. I want to know, have any of you ever seen lemon ice cream in the grocery store? Brires or dryers? The name brands that are out there, I have never seen it. Let me know down in the comments if you have. I'd like to hear about it and where you're from. So I'm Rock and Robin and I'm going to show you how to make some really delicious lemon ice cream right after this. Before we go with the ingredients, I just want to mention to all you lemon lovers out there that I have a playlist of many lemon recipes that I want you to check out. You can find that by clicking. There's a little link right up here and there's always that one in the description of the video as well as the written recipe. So make sure you check it out down there. Click where it says show more and you'll see all kinds of information, you know, my social media and the written recipe and links to even products. So check that out. All right, here's the ingredients for this recipe. First up, we have some organic whipping cream. We're using whipping cream and half and half. We're going to use a combination. Then we have some lemon zest. I'm using organic lemons here because I don't want to pesticides in my lemon. Now, we do have an option here with our zest. We can either leave it in our final product. You'll notice that it's got a little bit of something to chew there or you can take it out. You can strain it out. However you want to do it. Next up, we'll need some lemon juice. I'm using organic of course vanilla extract, sugar. I've got some egg yolks over here and my last ingredient is lemon chello. And this is a lemon liquor that has a nice little lemony flavor to it. And what the lemon chello will do is the alcohol content in it will help keep your ice cream from freezing rock solid and it will be easier to scoop out. We do need an ice cream maker for our recipe, so I do have a quesanet right here and we'll be using that. Remember to freeze your insert overnight so that it's ready to go when you're ready to turn your ice cream. So we're going to do a little cooking here. I've got my heavy whipping cream right here. I'm going to pour it into my saucepan and here's our half and half. I'm going to put my temperature on low. I'm going to add the sugar and the lemon zest. Now this is where we're going to get that really beautiful intense lemony flavor again from this. So we're going to cook this. We don't want to bring this to a boil. We just want to bring it to a simmer and we want that sugar to just dissolve into the mixture. Now once this comes to a simmer, we're going to cook it for just three to five minutes. So I turn the heat up just a little bit. It's not on low. It's a little above that. I want to get this to simmer just a little bubble going on on the edges and then we'll start our five, you know, three to five minute timer. What we don't want to do is burn this cream. So you want to stir it constantly. All right, so I've been cooking this now for about five minutes. So I'm going to turn off the heat and we're going to cover it and let it sit for about 20 minutes. Our mixture's been sitting now for 20 minutes. We take the lid off and we need to bring it back up to a simmer again. So I'm going to turn the heat on and we need to get the temperature back up because now we're going to temper the eggs. I'm going to turn off the heat. Now you want to take your egg yolks and blend them up. Break them. Mix them up and I'm going to take a little bit of my cream mixture while I'm whisking at the same time and I'm going to pour just a little bit in there. So we're slowly raising the temperature. Just make sure you keep whisking the whole time, okay? Another scoop or so and then I'm going to pour this mixture back in. I'm going to put this back on the heat. All right, and again, we'll just pour this into this mixture. I've got it on medium low right now. And if you do happen to get a little lump or two in your mixture, you can always strain it out later. All right, so I got my temperature on medium low. We're going to cook this for about 10 minutes or so or until this mixture cooks the eggs. We've got a cook a bit and it coats the back of my spoon. All right, I think you can see here how this has gotten pretty thick, right? And there's a couple of bubbles. There were a couple of bubbles in there, but I've been stirring it, tending to this constantly. I haven't let it go. I don't want it to burn. And you can see how it's now coating the spoon, right? The back of the spoon and you take your finger and you go like that and you taste your finger of course. And you can see that there's a nice line there. So I'm going to turn the heat off and this was cooking about six minutes. And now I'm going to add my vanilla extract. I'm going to stir that in and then I'm going to let this cool for just a minute and then I'm going to place it into a bowl or some mason jars, whatever you want to use to chill down because we have to let this chill before we can put it in the fridge. Now ideally you'd probably want to chill this overnight. I'm going to try and speed this up by using a nice water bath and so we can keep going. All right, I'm going to put mine in mason jars. So here we go. I'm just going to pour this in so that I can get it cooled off. All right, so we're ready to start turning our ice cream. I've got my insert that has been in the freezer. So it's frozen solid and put it in my machine. Now I've got my mix here that's cold and at this point notice we have not added in our lemon juice yet. So we're going to do that now and it is chilled as well. So I'm going to pour it into my bowl with the ice cream mix. Here's the lemon cello and I need to stir that in. Once that's mixed in we're just going to pour it into our machine. I'm going to turn it on. Let me put in my churn piece there, turn it on and then we're going to mix this until it's thickened up or it's somewhere between 15 and 20 minutes. All right, we've got billowing of ice cream in here. It looks incredible. Now this is pretty soft. I think it's going to be that way probably partly because of the alcohol in it and you can see here it's definitely soft serve. So I'm just going to place it into my shallow dish. That'll help keep it from getting really hard in the freezer along with a little bit of alcohol. Now with the lemon shallow, if you don't want to put that in or you can't find it or you know, you're just not going to do that, you can use all lemon juice. Okay, so no worries there. I just did it because I wanted to keep it soft in the freezer or in softer so that it makes serving it easier. Look at this. Look at this. It is nice and creamy. I love soft serve. How about you guys? Let me know down in the comments. I'm going to take a taste right out of this dish. I want to get this in the freezer and let it firm up a little more than I can scoop it out. But let me take a taste and tell you how it is. That has just the right amount of tartness with sweetness. It is creamy. Susan, you are going to love this. I know you asked for a nice creamy, smooth ice cream. This is it. Man, the flavors are just bursting with flavor. Super good guys. Try the recipe. I think you're going to love it. And let me know what you think down in the comments. All right, so that's our lemon ice cream. 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