Vanilla Ice Cream

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This ice cream recipe and its two sister recipes - Chocolate Ice Cream and Mint Chip Ice Cream - produce the most superior ice creams I have ever tasted. The flavor is excellent and the texture is pure velvet. Great base recipes with which to improvise.

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Last summer I used Alton's choc ice cream recipe & received rave reviews. For our Independence Day celebration this yr we were having company, some who never had been to our beach cottage and I was unfamiliar w/ their eating tastes other than they were mostly vegetarian and ate only the freshest food available. Yikes, the pressure was on! My granddaughter, an avid cook and equipped w/ a palate to rival her dad's who has the best ever and writes our wine newsletter for our small chain of gourmet grocery stores, planned the menu. She knew this couple as she interned for them last summer. We also had one friend here from Jerusalem and her family. We all enjoyed the diverse meal and settled in to watch the fireworks display over the pacific of Laguna Beach, California from our balcony....ring side seats you might say. Between digesting our dinner and waiting to pop the cork on celebration bubbly once the first of glorious display of sparkling fireworks I pulled out my Alton Brown vanilla ice cream and the bowl of mixed fresh berries....I scooped out mounds of the luscious white frozen delicacy... guests sent my husband back and forth w/ requests for 'yes please' for scoops of the etheral cold offerings. Once all had accepted the finale to our meal I looked @ the bottom of the container and realized there was enough for my husband but barely a spoonful for myself! Just enough to send compliments to Alton for another amazing recipe!!

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AB's chocolate ice cream is perfect, and is this recipe with unsweetened cocoa powder added. No additional sugar. I think he was trying to use the same ice cream base for both, which made the vanilla on the sweet side. For plain vanilla, I plan to reduce the sugar some. I had no vanilla sugar, so split and threw a vanilla bean into the cold half-and-half and heavy cream. Of course I pulled it out before freezing. If I throw in peaches or other things, I will keep the sugar as-is.

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I used 5 eggs like many other reviewers.
While in the ice cream maker, I added chopped strawberries, 3 bananas that I pureed in the food processor, and chopped almonds. Just before freezing I added chocolate syrup and mixed it in. Instant Banana Split ice cream, sooo goood!!!

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THIS IS NOT ONLY THE BEST ICE CREAM YOU WILL EVER EAT, IT IS ALSO A GREAT BASE FOR OTHER FLAVORS. I MIX IN FRUIT, PEACHES, BANANA AND WALNUT, RASPBERRY, STRAWBERRYS ETC. AND IT IS FANTASTIC. WHAT EVER FRUIT I CAN GET AT A GREAT PRICE GOES INTO THIS ICE CREAM. THANKS ALTON FOR THIS FABULOUS RECIPE.

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After reading reviews, I did cut the eggs to 5. This is the best ice cream in the world.

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I doubled the recipe and ended up cooking the egg once I returned the mixture back to the stove. That's 16 egg yolks to start over. Be Very Careful! :

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Used 6 eggs. And previous reviewers are correct in that this does have a very strong custard taste becasue it is soooooo rich. It is very good, but a bit too rich for me. Which is saying a lot, as I am a sugar freak. I will keep the recipe, and reduce the eggs to 4 or 5 next time. Very good, and very good texture, thick and creamy. Another reviewer said it tasted "eggy" this does not taste like eggs, i whipped the eggs to a pale yellow. But it is a very strong custard taste which is rich due to the high egg content. I might reduce the sugar a bit next time also. But a very good recipe over all !

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I'm a bit of health freak, and have been attempting to make "healthy" ice cream. I made this recipe with goat milk instead of half and half and cream, and instead of 9 oz of sugar, I used 1/2 tsp of pure stevia extract(not truvia or any of that crap, and 2 tbs of applesauce. It was absolutely delicious.

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I have never left a review for a recipe from any of the sites I frequented until this one. Tried this recipe for the first time and it is truly exceptional. I did follow some suggestions of others and used 6 egg yolks as opposed to 8. The results were fantastic. Very Smooth and Creamy texture and this is one recipe I "WILL" be making again!