Before I start in with this recipe "goodness", I have great news!! This blog has been named one of Babble.com's Top 100 Mom Food Blogs of 2012. I am so honored to be included with so many amazing women who create such beautiful meals! Thank you to all of you who visit here daily and make this all possible. I can't imagine cooking or eating something and not sharing it here, or on Facebook or Twitter or Instagram...what the heck would we do without all of it...especially Instagram....?! Love. Go check out all the amazing bloggers over at Babble, you will find some great new blogs to read, I know I did.
Anyway, this ice cream made me feel like a kid again, a kid at a birthday party eating ice cream out of cute paper cups and playing silly games. It made me feel like I was at Farrell's. (If you haven't been to Farrell's, then this next sentence won't make any sense.) I wanted this ice cream to be full of plastic animals as a GIANT bowl of it was run around the room on a stretcher, with a banging drum in tow. I told you that would sound weird. It's a Farrell's thing.
It was hot tonight as we sat on the back deck slurping this frozen treat away. As you can see, it was already getting a bit drippy. Summer has definitely arrived, which is a good thing in my neck of the woods. The grapevines are growing and we are hoping for a another amazing harvest this October.
In all honesty, since I made the coconut ice cream, my ice cream maker has been going nonstop. Thank goodness we have two ice cream freezer bowls in rotation. It kind of guarantees that some type of frozen delight will be churning away. It's worth giving up the freezer space.
Here are the stars of the show. The cherries of course, and then I made the ice cream using sweetened condensed milk, instead of making a custard. So easy!! You just want to make sure your ingredients are cold when you start. Throw everything into the fridge the day before or the morning of and you will be good to go.
The ice cream is sweet and yummy. And, if "pink" was a flavor, this is what it would taste like. I just know it.
Maraschino Cherry Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk, cold
- 1-1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- juice from two (8 oz) or one (16 oz) jar(s) of maraschino cherries, cold
- 1 cup chopped maraschino cherries
Directions
- Add all ingredients, except the chopped cherries to the bowl of the ice cream maker (make sure everything is cold). Freeze according to manufacturers directions. Add chopped cherries the last couple minutes of freezing.
- Add ice cream to a container and freeze in the freezer for another 4 hours.
- Serve in cute little cups!
I wish there was more left.
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Farrell’s was so awesome!! I haven’t thought about them since I was a kid!
PS. This ice cream looks amazing. Have you ever tried to mod this recipe to be vegan? I’m intolerant of lactose so I’ve given up cow milk products as I can.
Sorry Kristine I haven’t.
Congratulations on the award Cathy! Very well deserved. And this ice cream looks fabulous.
Thanks Lea Ann!
…you are so deserving to be honored in Babble…congratulations. I subscribe to many blogs but a big smile comes on my face when I see you have posted an entry; always entertaining and delicious goodies to make.
Definitely will make this ice cream – thanks for sharing.
Thanks Judith!
Looks fantastic! I have a question though. The coconut ice cream was delicious, but a little too sweet for my taste. Is this as sweet? And if so, do you have any suggestions for making it a little less sweet?
And did you think of maybe adding some mini semi sweet chips in there?
I do not think it’s as sweet as the coconut ice cream and I also thought about adding mini chocolate chips. I think it would be perfect.
congratulations Cathy on the blog honour. It is well deserved. Your recipes are delicious with readily available ingredients – so “doable” . Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Lynn, I appreciate it!
You make it sound do easy! I’ve made ice cream with custard but never condensed milk. I’ll have to give it a shot!
It is easy, just make sure it cold!
Yum! Now I need a ice cream maker asap!!! All it needs is some flecks of chocolate! Congrads on your award!
You need to get one!
Just throw all the ingredients into the maker? I love it! Usually there’s some stove action when i make ice cream.
I know, it’s just too easy.
Congrats! Love all your unique recipes
Thx Amy!!!
Huzzah! Congrats!!!! (Totally not surprised you’re on the list—it’s true, your site is FAB.)
And…I was just gifted an ice cream maker; squeeeeeeeaaaaaallllll! So, I am going to try this recipe ASAP. And I need to schedule my mini road trip down to you. Because the summer is melting away before our very eyes! xo, alexis
Thx Alexis and come down any time!
Congratulations! Your site deserves to be #1. I’ll take a small serving of that ice cream right now!
Thanks Barbie!
Congrats on making Babble’s top 100!!
This ice cream sounds SO good. I love the cute little striped paper cups! My mom is crazy about cherry ice cream, she’d definitely enjoy this. When you mentioned coconut ice cream it brought me back to childhood when we made coconut gelato at our stand. Haven’t had it in years! I might have to correct that.
I’ve never had coconut gelato, would love to try that.
Farrell’s was a family fave growing up….I didn’t know they were still in existence! We are headed to SoCal in August and I got excited for a minute thinking I could take my kids to Farrell’s but alas there isn’t one near enough to our destination
Your ice cream looks delish!
Oh too bad, I would love to go as well!
yummmm! What a brillant idea and of course I love that its egg free which means you can churn it right away! I can’t wait to give this recipe a try and of course as always your photos are stunning!
Yes…faster is always betta’ when it comes to ice cream makin’.
This looks soooo yummy! Wish I had some right now!
Me too!
CONGRATS on the award!! I absolutely love maraschino cherries, so I’ll have to make this!
I made this tonight…..sitting in the freezer now firming up. I ran my ice cream maker for almost 25 minutes and the mixture never got very thick (but maybe it’s not supposed to?). I hoping it turns out! (Also, I got a pretty heavy “ring” around the bottom half of the ice cream container and had to chip it off but I ended up throwing it out.)
Yes, the ice cream is not one of those high-butter fat mixtures that gets really, really hard in the freezer. It’s a little softer making it easy to scoop but is still very much ice cream consistency. As long as you started with very cold ingredients you should be fine. As far as the bottom ring, did you let your ingredients sit in the mixer too long before turning it on? That’s the only time I’ve experienced something like that. Enjoy!
Thanks Cathy for the reply! My ingredients were cold and I turned on the machine before pouring everything in. Maybe I just ran it too long. I can’t wait to taste test tonight!!