If you like lemon and ice cream, you will love this! Homemade Lemon Ice Cream is based on my old no-cook ice cream recipe, with cream cheese added.
I bought the lemon curd a while back and stashed it in the pantry. Sometimes I buy inspiration ingredients. I don’t have a specific plan for them, so they just wait until a good recipe idea hits me. That was the case with this jar of lemon curd.
This ice cream is creamy, smooth and full of lemon flavor. It’s simple to make, since there’s no cooking involved and it only has five ingredients.
Here’s what you’ll need:
Homemade Lemon Ice Cream
Servings: 1 quart
Ingredients
- 2 oz cream cheese softened
- 1 can sweetened condensed milk
- 1/2 cup lemon curd
- 2 cups half & half
- 1 tsp. vanilla
Instructions
- Whisk together cream cheese and a small amount of sweetened condensed milk till smooth.
- Whisk in lemon curd until smooth.
- Whisk in remaining sweetened condensed milk.
- Add half & half and vanilla.
- Continue whisking until smooth.
- Pour into ice cream maker and freeze according to maker's instructions.
You had me at “lemon curd.” This ice cream sounds fabulous! Pinning!
I cannot let my husband know about this.
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Looks yummy…. can this be frozen without being done in an ice cream maker? We don’t have one.
Roni, I’ve seen instructions for doing that, but I’ve never done it myself. I’m not sure if it would work with this recipe or not.
YUM! I have been looking for easy ice cream recipes. A variation on this theme, I am now wondering what a little extra vanilla and a can of frozen orange concentrate might yield. Orange sickle?
Sounds worth a try!
This is the best ice cream recipe I have ever made. The consistency is super creamy, which is nice as most homeade ice cream tends to be on the slushier side. My family loved the lemon flavor!! Today I subbed the Reese’s choc peanut butter spread for lemon curd and again, spectacular!!!
what is half and half?
Half and half is half cream/half milk. It’s sold near the milk and cream in the dairy section.
Not in the uk?
What is lemon curd?
Lemon curd is often sold near the jams and jellies or in the baking aisle. It’s a lemony spread.
I would like to try it & then try it again with lime curd.
What size sweetened condensed milk?
14 oz