We All Scream For Ice Cream!!

Well, I certainly scream for ice cream every chance I get. Ice cream has always been one of my biggest weaknesses. I always try to get low fat ice cream or frozen yogurt, and there are a few good brands. There are also a bunch of yucky ones.

Blue Bell has a good low fat frozen yogurt, but it has very few flavors. Also, the price has sky rocketed lately to almost $5.00 a gallon, and that's just ridiculous. One other small problem I have with some of the low fat ice cream is it has a tendency to bloat me up, and you know what that causes. Danny refuses to get to close too me when I eat it. :)

I think I may have solved my problem with the machine you see in the first picture below. It's an electric ice cream maker. It makes 1 1/2 - 2 quarts in just a few minutes. My mom has one of these and she really loves it, so I thought I would give it a try. I wanted to make a "healthy" ice cream, low fat and low sugar, and I tried my first recipe today. It was delicious!! Danny even liked it and ate two bowls. I'll give you the recipe I used at the end of this blog. You can find hundreds of recipes online and the maker I got has several recipes with it. Although a lot of them aren't low fat, but I'm sure they would be yummy.

I hope some of you try this machine it's really easy, fun and oh so..... good. And, the clean up was a breeze.

This is the Cuisinart Ice Cream maker. It has really good reviews online. I bought it at Sam's for $49.99. That was about the best price I found anywhere.

These are all the ingredients in the ice cream I made except for the frozen peaches.

It only took about 15 minutes to freeze. This is a picture of the freezing process.

And this is a picture of the finished product. It was very rich and creamy tasting. You would never know it was low fat and low sugar. The recipe calls for sugar but I used Splenda Blend.

(For some reason Blogger will not let me put spaces in the recipe.)

Low Fat Peach Ice Cream

3 cups ripe peaches (keep frozen)

1 package Knox Gelatin

1 can evaporated milk - I used regular, but next time I may try the fat free.

1/2 cup sugar - I used 1/4 cup Splenda Blend, but it needed to be a little sweeter. Next time I'll add more.

1/2 tesp. vanilla extract

1. In blender, mix together milk, sugar and vanilla.

2. Put a package of Knox Gelatin in a half cup of water and heat them together in the microwave for a few seconds. Then stir it till the gelatin is fully dissolved. After this, add it to the ingredients in the blender and blend them again.

3. Add peaches, frozen, but break them up into chunks and add them one chunk at a time. Blend after each addition.

If you add them all at the same the results is a big mess.

4. Put mixture into your ice cream maker. Don't take the freezing tub out to the freezer until you are ready to pour the mixture in. It should take around 15 minutes to freeze. Enjoy!!