Monday, September 22, 2025

How To Make Homemade Ice Cream With Hand Mixer

I finally found a simple homemade ice cream recipe that didn't require a lot of heavy blending and food-processing. My inspiration came from a one minute Youtube video from Amaze Glaze

I started with the recipe of a commentor who had translated the recipe from the metric measurements in the video. I tweaked her recipe and replaced the cocoa. 

@thatinspiredme1073 (Youtube name of commentor)

3 1/4 C Heavy Cream

1 1/8 C Cocoa

1 Can Condensed Milk (14 oz. Can)


Ingredients & Tools For My Recipe

1 qt (tall carton) heavy whipping cream

14oz (1 small can) sweetened condensed milk

1/2c or more of milk

*Flavorings and additions of your choice

Hand mixer or whatever you use to mix recipes

Large mixing bowl

Rubber spatula

Container(s) for freezing


*For my coffee ice cream, I added these ingredients to taste: Columbian instant coffee crystals, English toffee instant cappuccino mix, French vanilla instant cappuccino mix, salted caramel coffee syrup.

I used the entire carton of heavy cream, which increased it from 3 1/4c to 4c. I wanted to reduce the amount of sugar per serving and using more cream did this by increasing the volume of the mixture.  

I used my hand mixer and started on low. After 2-3 minutes, I increased the speed to medium and stopped to scrape down the sides of the bowl with the rubber spatula. I increased the speed to high after about 2 minutes. Be careful not to mix too long because it will begin to form clumps of butter.

After I whipped it to soft peaks, or peaks that fall over, I added these ingredients to my taste:

  • vanilla flavoring
  • instant coffee
  • instant English toffee cappuccino
  • instant French vanilla cappuccino
  • salted caramel syrup
  • a couple of shakes from my salt shaker because others said it improves the taste.

I whipped it again on low until blended. I scraped down the sides of the bowl and added the can of sweetened, condensed milk. I whipped on low until blended. I tasted it to be sure that it was to my liking and it was very good! 

It was also so deliciously thick. This would have been ok but I decided to stretch the mixture. I added between 1/4 and 1/2c of milk and whipped that in. I could have added more milk and it would have been even lighter in volume. I divided the mixture into 4 storage containers of various sizes and froze overnight. 

I eat so much ice cream that I think next time I'll add more milk and make it lighter, which will stretch it further. As long as it can freeze, it doesn't matter how thin the mixture is. Of course, the more milk you add the less rich and creamy it will be. 

I suppose you could stretch it so much that it would be like ice milk. Remember that? When I was growing up, there were ice creams on the freezer racks, and then beside them, the ice milk flavors. 

The next day...

I was afraid that it would be soft and easy to scoop, causing me to eat a lot of it. My homemade ice cream, however, was very stiff and so hard to scoop that it came off in curls. Yay! You can see some instant coffee spots in the lower right of the next pic. 


The taste was exquisite and almost too rich for my gut. I hope I don't have stomach problems later. Sometimes, lactose intolerance tries to rear its head. It was very much sweet enough despite the extra cream and milk that I added. I'm glad that I was not able to eat much of it. It's also very good in coffee and hot chocolate, depending on the flavor that you make.

Unlike when I buy ice cream, this lush frozen dessert will last me a long time. It was so smooth and creamy! I will definitely add more milk next time to make it more fluffy when frozen and to reduce the richness even more.  

I rate this recipe as a win-win and the result as a 10/10!



   


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Monday, September 15, 2025

Fall Colors That Go Together Crafting Papers

Use these fall pumpkin colors printable and digital papers in your Autumn projects and designs.


Five (5) Trio Paper Packs to choose from.

Warm, luscious fall colors in yellows, oranges, browns, greens.

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Monday, September 8, 2025

How Can I Start Purging


Have you begun the cleaning, throwing out and purging that you promise yourself you will do? What if you suddenly become unable to purge and organize? You would sadly think back on all of the time that you had to do it.

How would you feel, as you lay on your bed or couch, having to watch others come in and do what you procrastinated about? Maybe they would not want to do it. They might feel annoyed and frustrated, wondering why you had not done it?

If you passed away unexpectedly, how would others feel having to plough through and process your stuff? Yes, you would be gone and it wouldn't matter to you but it's unfair to leave a mess for those after you to clean up. It's better if you leave organization. 

I don't want my remaining years bogged down with the knowledge that hoards of stuff, bulging files and unnecessary possessions are needling my mind. I want to live with a clear conscience that I've done all that I can to live organized. I can live happy that I've done my best to make it easier on those who will process my affairs when I am gone.  

Get rid of what you don't use now. Dispose of craft supplies and tools, household stuff and anything else that you suspect you'll never get around to using. Whenever possible, give to people now the things that you want them to have. Be brutal in purging, cleaning out, throwing away and passing on. You'll live in peace from now on and die in peace. 






Buy tags to organize. These tags can be printed, cut out, hole-punched and threaded with yarn, string or ribbon. 

They can then be tied to drawers and cabinet knobs to label the contents. They can also be glued to the front of drawers to name the contents.



Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Autumn Poetry: Falling Before They Turn

Funny how some leaves

Fall before they turn.

They have a hint of yellowness,

With no trace of the vibrant

Orange or red that marks

Autumn beauty.

They bail out prematurely,

Taking the show early,

Choosing for some reason

To not be changed

Into glorious fall expressiveness.

They choose to crumple and rust

Among the dying blades

Of late season grass.

What a season to behold.

*****

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Tuesday, August 26, 2025

Best Way To Offer Digital Downloads


If you are selling digitals on a site that greatly limits upload/download size, your digitals are too large and you offer offsite access to the downloads, you may want to rethink the practice.

What Are Your Options?

You can limit your file sizes. Unfortunately, I've found that some files will not reduce enough and can't be zipped either.

You can store your files offsite and send your customers there for their downloads. Technically, this is not an instant download. It's a downloadable file. The customer has to find the file and it's not always that simple and easy. 

I bought a digital paper pack from a seller who sent me to Google Docs or DropBox via a receipt download of instructions after I made my "instant download" payment. With my advanced computer literacy, I barely found my way to the files and got them downloaded. 

The instruction links in a document like that aren't even clickable. They have to be cut and pasted into the browser and so forth, another step for the customer. Some sellers use free file storage sites which have a lot of ads. It is difficult to determine which link is the download because the ads display many distracting links. I don't want my customers to endure this. I know that many of them would probably get lost trying to do it.

You can have the customer download an email receipt explaining that you will email the files to them ASAP. I think it would be more convenient for them to wait a couple of hours or less to receive the emailed files rather than hunting for the proper link. If you are on the computer often as I am, they wouldn't have to wait very long. 

Another Good Option

You can sell through Payhip. Their file limit size is a generous 5GB per file. In years of listing on this site, I've never had a problem with any single files or .zip folders being uploaded. I've never had to manually handle the delivery of my digital products. At Payhip, you can also sell physical and subscription products.