Making Milo Dinosaur version 2.0~

Gotta call this Milo Dinosaur version 2.0 cause the normal Milo Dinosaur would have milo drink at the bottom and top with Milo powder. I tweak mine by topping it with Vanilla ice cream! Yummy and great to eat. As usual the photo doesnt give it proper justice as I took this during night time~ I had another idea for version 3.0~! Hehe just waiting for all the ingredients to be ready~

Making Chocolate ice cream smoothie~!

My blend of ice, vanilla ice cream, cadbury cocoa powder. Top with Vanilla ice cream! I tired putting in caramel sauce but i will skip that next time. Yummy~ At first wondered what to call this drink, its between milk shake and ice blended... my friend suggested calling it smoothie instead!

Tea time! Oreo Ice cream with Banana.. Itadakimasu!!

Enjoying my Oreo ice cream with Banana! Kawaii~ so adorable!! Wanted to cut down on sweet stuff but whenever I have an idea its always something to do with sweet dessert!! What can I do about it when I shouldnt eat anymore sweets? Just make it and enjoy lo! Lol looks like i am totally hopeless and a total slave to sweets now~!

Flower pot ice cream surprise!

Give this as a surprise to your love ones! Be it for Valentine day, Birthday or Mothers day! They will immediately think that you are giving them a flower pot which is not that far from truth. Well it is a flower pot. But we add another interesting element by combining flower pot and oreo ice cream! This project is really simple once you have collected all the necessary materials. The idea is so endearing that it will definitely put a smile on people's face.

Well I was wondering whether i should write this post. If my family and friends read this then this surprise will not work anymore. Well in the end couldnt resist the temptation of sharing this to the world. I took the idea from Food Wishes Chef John. In his site he wrote the source of the idea comes from the thepioneerwoman.com. So you would have a few reference and sample to make your own pot of surprises. I skip the part of putting a pound cake into the pot.

I watch the video from Chef John's Food Wishes website but never thought that I would really use the idea until I wanted to surprise people on their birthday! In the end I adapt and change the steps to make this surprise pot.

Tools:
-Pot
-Aluminium foil
-A few chopstick depending on how many flowers you use. Cover it with aluminum foil
-2-3 daisy flower. Cover the stalk with aluminum foil to prevent it in contact with the ice cream.
-Crush about 75g of Oreo cookies with the cream remove

Steps:
Line the pot with aluminum foil. Well I could actually skip the steps for aluminum foil and make the flower pot look even more real. However I find it unappetizing to just stuck the ice cream into the pot as I am not sure whether the pot is meant to be in contact with food directly. So I clean the pot well and line it with aluminum foil before putting in the ice cream.

I choose daisy flower. To me daisy look really colorful and cheerful. As the stalk are too big to fit into a straw, I just stuck a 3-5 chopstick (depending on how many stalk you use) into my ice cream and dump the vanilla ice cream around the chop stick.

Chopstick stick into the middle. Put the ice cream around the chopstick

Fill up the ice cream almost until the top. Keep some space so that the vanilla ice cream will be covered with Crush Oreo.

Refrigerate till the ice cream sets. I freeze it overnight. Took out the chopstick. There will be a hole at the centre, stick in the daisy and fill up the top with crush oreo cookies. Completely covering it. The Oreo cookies act as "soil" to the flower pot.

I remove the cream and use my chopper to crush the cookies. Faster this way. Otherwise you can just crush it in a bowl or put into a plastic and whack it till its all crush. If you didnt remove the cream then the cookies may not look pure black colour.

Apple crumble Ice cream picture~!

 Have fun during hols making various types of ice cream~ Ate this at a cafe and inspired to make my own as I miss the apple crumble there.
Bottom layer has cream, raw apple slices and apple crumble. Top layer Vanilla ice cream whip cream, colourful sprinkle and hershey chocolate syrup.

Another classic is Chocolate and Vanilla Sundae Ice cream! The inside is layered with Chocolate and Vanilla ice cream. You can put all sort of condiments inside like any nuts, crush oreo cookies, chocolate + vanilla sprinkles. Some even put bits of pineapple. I drizzle the inside with hershey syrup. Top with whip cream and cherries. The whip cream can be replace with a layer of oreo cookies.

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How to make the crumble (original from apple crumble recipe)?

Rasberry Ripple Crunch ice cream picture

Making Rasberry Ripple Crunch Ice cream~! Basically its Vanilla Ice cream mix in with Rasberry sauce, Rasberry fruits and crush Cadbury Crunchie bar

How to make Rasberry Ripple Crunch Ice cream - video included

Green Tea ice cream picture and recipe

Green Tea ice cream~! 1 scoop of ice cream, top with whip cream and almond nibs. Decorate with biscuit. So adorable lah~

How to make Green Tea ice cream (Click here!)

Paul the Octopus. This is dedicated for you!

I dedicate this ice cream to Paul the Octopus that has sadly pass away today. I name it Strawberry Chocolate Sunrise. May you RIP happily in Octopus Heaven.

Decoration: Strawberry with icing sugar. Chocolate ice cream drizzle with Chocolate syrup, almond nibs and whip cream.

How to make chocolate ice cream recipe?

Oreo Ice Cream Cake (Picture)

 

Recipe: Oreo Ice Cream Cake

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Green Tea Ice cream Recipe!

Ingredients
300 milk ml
90gram brown sugar
5** green teaspoon matcha powder (Using Maruyu  Omacha Powder)
a pinch of salt

150ml whipping cream

** I notice when i use a different brand of Green Tea, 5 teaspoon would be too much. Thus watch the original video or season to taste. In ice cream its a bit difficult to season to taste since you will only know how it taste at the end. Thus you may need to use some trial error.

 

Picture: Brown sugar/Matcha Green Tea Powder/Milk

This green tea ice cream is really easy to make.

Steps:
Just mix the milk, brown sugar and green tea powder. Beat till the sugar dissolve. Add in the salt.¹

Put ice in a big bowl and put a smaller bowl in the big bowl. Pour the cream in (the small bowl) and beat the whipping cream till its peak.²

Pour the matcha mixture into the whipping cream and stir gently till its mix. Pop into the freezer for 2 hours and pour it into you ice cream maker!

Tips
1 The green tea powder is really light and will fly off easily. Using a spoon, mix the green tea powder with the milk before you start beating. Else the green tea powder can spill out and the precious green tea powder would be wasted. I have a small blender. I just dump all the ingredient into the blender carefully and start blending. It is easier and get the job done faster!


2 How to see the whipping cream has peak? There will be a cone shape stuck to the beater when you lift up the beater. If the cream doesnt get stuck to the beater means that you have to continue beating. However stop beating once you have seen the cone shape.


Result
I like the taste of the green tea ice cream. The taste is light and creamy. I prefer to eat this ice cream with a cone. When i ate it in a cup i like to sprinkle in grind nuts, wafer and whip cream. The recipe is taken from you tube How to Make Green Tea Ice Cream (Matcha Ice Cream) i have modified the green tea quantity and also add in salt. The flavour is more pronounce.

Vanilla Ice cream with Oreo cookies recipe

cream, My Sweet Tooth

I made Vanilla Ice cream and they taste delicious! Its a Philadelphia style ice cream so there is no eggs involve! After freezing the ice cream for about 2 hours I garnish with crush Oreo biscuit. The taste of Vanilla and Oreo really complement each other. The recipe is taken from Food Wishes by Chef John. You can even find his video of the vanilla ice cream in Youtube.

I change some of the ingredients and steps. I do not have heavy whipping cream and heavy cream. I use the Bridel Whipping Cream.

I have modified the quantities according to the one state in my Philips ice cream maker manual.

Recipe:
-400ml milk. I use FarmHouse fresh milk. Usually when making ice cream they recommend using whole milk.
-150ml whipping cream.
-Quater cup sugar (about 50ml according to cup measurement)
-1 to 2 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring

Steps: In the origianl post from Food Wishes, Chef John heat the milk, sugar and cream together. I wasnt sure about heating the Whipping cream, so i change the steps.

- Pour the milk and sugar into a pot. Heat the mixture till the sugar is melted.
- Chill the milk and sugar. I left the mixture to cool to room temperature and pour in the chilled whipping cream.
- I add in about 1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring
- I chill overnight. Pour into ice cream maker. After half hour. The ice cream is done.

(Picture might be a bit grainy as I use HTC HD2 for the photos)

Strawberry and Mango ice cream photos

Having fun with the ice cream that I made. This is my favorite combo. When I eat at ice cream shop I normally mix strawberry and mango. So its rather special that I can one day make my own ice cream in my favorite combo. The strawberry and mango taste awesome. The mango ice cream is particular a success as its creamy, smooth and the texture looks like real ice cream compare with the strawberry. When trying to scoop up the strawberry, it will break easily and its hard to mold into a ball. It could be because gelatine is added into mango ice cream and it help in the texture and shape of the ice cream.

The great thing about these 2 ice creams is that they require 100ml whip cream each and require 70 -90g sugar. Both quantity are little compare with other ice cream recipes that requires lots of cream and sugar to work.

I sprinkle the ice cream with white chocolate and almonds on the strawberry. On the mango i garnish with chocolate sprinkle and almonds. Add a bit of whip cream at the side. This round i skip the Hershey chocolate sauce.

My recipe for the ice cream above:
Mango Ice cream recipe

Making Strawberry Ice cream (Recipe)

Mango Ice cream recipe

I just made mango ice cream and its really yummy. I took the recipe from http://hubpages.com/hub/mango-ice-cream

The recipe after trying~

What you need:
2 ripe mangoes. I use medium size mango.After removing the seed, the mango pulp weigh about 330gram
1 orange
1 lime
Quater cup sugar (roughly about 50ml or slightly more)
½ cup cream (whipped)

Procedures:

   1. Peel and slice the mangoes. (throw out the seed in the middle after scraping off the fruit). Depending on the size of the mango your quantity might varies. My mango is about medium in size. After throwing the seed the mango weigh about 330gram.
   2. Juice the orange and lime using a juicer.
   3. Blend the mango using a food processor (or blender) until you make a puree.
   4. Add the orange juice, lime juice and sugar. I belief sugar should be according to taste. Different type of mango has different type of sweetness. What I do is that I pour in the sugar bit by bit, blend and taste the puree. Add more sugar till its adequately sweet.
   5. Pour into a metal or plastic bowl and fold in the cream.
   6. Put in the freezer for about an hour.
   7.  At the end I decided to add in a a small amt of gelatin. About less than half teaspoon. Mix the gelatin in water till dissolve. Pour into the ice cream and mix. Next time will add gelatin before freezing.
  8. The website shows the method by using the freezer and whisk to create ice cream. Since I have a ice cream maker, I just pour the mixture into my Philips ice cream maker. After 30mins the ice cream is done. Actually in less than 20min I can see the results. But i prefer the ice cream to be firmer, so i waited for 30mins.
  9. Put the ice cream into container and freeze.

(The original recipe calls for a cup of sugar. I find that too sweet so i reduce the amt)

Making Blackberry Ice cream

Blackberry Ice cream. This time the ice cream look solid as the quantity i input is less compare with previous ice cream i made

I use frozen blackberry from Sujon. Cost about RM30 in Cold Storage Jb/Malaysia. Its 1kg. The price of fresh blackberries are 170gram at RM15.90. I save a lot buying the frozen version.

The outcome is that the ice cream is a little bit too yogurty. I use about 400 grams of blackberry and 190ml of whipping cream. Next time will increase the blackberry to 500 or 600 and reduce the whipping cream. Able to increase the quantity of blackberry as i need to sieve the blackberry and get rid of the solids. I use about 6 teaspoon of sugar and less than half teaspoon of gelatin.

Making Strawberry Ice cream (Recipe)

Today I went to cold storage and bought some ingredient for ice cream. As I shop I decided to make strawberry ice cream. Cold storage sell their 250gram strawberry from USA for about RM11-12. I also found there there is frozen fruits like blueberry, strawberry, blackberry and mix berries that sell at around RM30 for 1kg. I bought the blackberry 1kg and will make blackberry ice cream next!

After coming back from home i immediately start my ice cream process. I heard a lot of great comments about the strawberry ice cream in the recipe book or making your own strawberry ice cream in general. That its not to be miss. I waited for about 40mins to churn and out comes great tasting strawberry ice cream!

Ingredients (modified to accommodate the ingredients that i can find)
-200g fresh Strawberries.
-90g caster sugar
-Half lime and half orange juice (or at least 1 tbsp lemon juice)
-To replace whole milk 225ml - I use 110 evaporated milk + 105ml water (usually its half of each milk and water)
-100ml whipping cream

---Puree strawberry/juice/milk/sugar
---Combine strawberry mixture with cream. Make sure all ingredient thoroughly mix
---I pop into the freezer for about 1. Ideally at least 1 half or 2 hours. Stir the mixture.
---Switch on the ice cream maker and pour mixture into the cooling bowl (scrap away any ice stuck on the cooling disk before start)

After freezing for about 10hours

Making Banana Ice cream (recipe)

I watch in wonder as my Philip ice cream maker churn and I watch my mixture slowly turning into ice cream. My heart is dancing with joy as I have failed 3 attempts previously as I could not turn the mixture into ice cream.

I edited the quantity of the ingredients from the book provided by Philips.

250g ripe bananas
80g caster sugar
3 tbsp lemon juice
100 ml whipping cream
200 fresh milk

-I puree the bananas by flattening and crushing the bananas using fork and spoon. Next mix with sugar and lemon juice. Mix the banana puree with  cream and milk.

-I freeze the mixture for 1 and half hour.

-Take out the cooling disc and scrap away the ice stuck on it with a plastic ruler (do not use metal). That way the stirrer will not get stuck. Switch on and make sure the stirrer runs smoothly. Stop and scrap the cooling disc if still stuck. Switch on and pour in the mixture.

-Takes about 30 minutes in air condition room. In about 20 minutes you can see the ice cream start appearing.

More Banana Split photo~

May 7: This time decided to do a simple macadamia ice cream with Hershey's chocolate syrup

Sunday/April 18. Out of Banana so just mainly using Strawberrys~ going to try put Kiwi fruit as per Mena's suggestion~ My ice cream is getting more colourful~

Ice cream:King's Macadamia ice cream/Baskin Robbins Caramel Chocolate Crunch + Chocolate Chip.
Banana/Strawberry sprinkle with Hershey Chocolate Syrup/Chocolate + white chocolate chip, Chocolate sprinkle/ Colourful sprinkle and whipped cream.

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