Homemade Soft Serve Ice Cream

A friend shared this recipe with me (thanks, Judy!) and boy was it a hit! Tastes just like soft-serve ice cream. Our freezer always gets things really frozen, so after several hours, ours was pretty hard and scooped just like regular ice cream, with the flavor of soft-serve. I really enjoyed making it because it was inexpensive (less than $5 for at least 8 kid-sized cones) and didn't require anything fancier than a hand mixer to make.


INGREDIENTS:
1 pint (2 cups) heavy whipping cream
1 can sweetened condensed milk
1 tsp extract (vanilla, almond, your favorite)


DIRECTIONS: With an electric mixer, beat the whipping cream until thickened into a soft cream. Add the sweetened condensed milk and extract and mix until thoroughly combined. Pour it all into a plastic container and freeze for at least 4 hours, or longer.

Whipped until thickened and creamy


Adding the sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract.



The kids enjoying their homemade ice cream!
(and, even though it's not even remotely diet-friendly, Mom enjoyed one too!)