Ice cream from 2–3 ingredients

Recipes (20)

• Fior di latte

  The purest gelato of all: milk, a little cream and sugar. No eggs, no vanilla — it tastes of fresh, sweet milk.

• Sicilian lemon crema (egg-free)

  A milk gelato thickened with cornflour (cornstarch) instead of egg yolks and stabiliser, scented with lemon zest.

• Coffee granita with whipped cream (granita al caffè)

  A Sicilian summer breakfast: icy coffee granita with whipped cream and a brioche. Just coffee and sugar.

• Lemon granita (granita al limone)

  The most classic Sicilian granita: lemon, water and sugar. Tart, sweet and icy.

• Mulberry or blueberry granita (ai gelsi)

  Deep purple granita made from black mulberries — traditional in Sicily; here you can make it with blueberries too.

• Watermelon granita

  Pink icy granita made from watermelon with lime. The simplest summer refresher.

• Strawberry granita

  A seasonal granita made from ripe strawberries — icy flakes that taste of fresh fruit.

• Fruit ice lolly for kids, no added sugar

  Four ingredients, no added sugar and the taste of a mango and banana smoothie on a stick.

• Rolled ice cream — basic vanilla base

  The base for all rolled ice creams: cream, milk and condensed milk, with no cooking and no eggs.

• Egg-free vanilla ice cream (Philadelphia style)

  Pure, creamy vanilla with no egg yolks — fresh, milky and ready without cooking a custard.

• No-churn ice cream with whipped cream and condensed milk

  Three ingredients, a mixer and a freezer. Whipped cream provides the air, sweetened condensed milk the smoothness.

• Lemon sorbet

  Fresh, tangy and smooth — the basic recipe that teaches you how sugar turns frozen water into sorbet.

• Raspberry sorbet

  Intensely raspberry, deep red and seedless. Works with frozen raspberries too.

• Strawberry sorbet

  A no-cook summer classic made from fresh strawberries — it tastes like strawberries straight from the garden.

• Mango sorbet with lime

  Thick, creamy and fragrant — mango has so much flesh that the sorbet is almost like ice cream.

• Elderflower sorbet

  A floral sorbet made from elderflower syrup with lemon — the taste of Slovak and Czech gardens in May.

• Quick frozen fruit sorbet

  Ready in 10 minutes from frozen strawberries and mango in a high-speed blender — no ice cream maker, no waiting.

• Banana nice cream

  A creamy “ice cream” dessert made from nothing but frozen overripe bananas and two dates — no added sugar, no milk and no ice cream maker.

• Chocolate banana nice cream

  Chocolate nice cream made from frozen bananas, cocoa and dates. It tastes like chocolate ice cream but has a fraction of the fat.

• Protein ice cream with quark and skyr

  A fitness favourite for the Ninja CREAMi: quark, skyr and erythritol. Over 8 g of protein and about 65 kcal per 100 g.

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  Crystal size decides how smooth ice cream is. Why freezing speed matters, what recrystallisation is and how to keep homemade ice cream smooth even after several days.

• Overrun: how much air is in ice cream

  Overrun tells you how much the ice cream has grown in volume compared with the mix. How it is calculated, why gelato has less air than industrial ice cream and what a home machine can manage.

• What fat, sugar, protein and air do in ice cream

  Ice cream is a foam and an emulsion at the same time. The roles of fat, milk solids, sugars, stabilisers, emulsifiers and air, and what happens when there is too much of something.

Recipe collections

Lists of recipes by what you are after — each with a note on what that kind of ice cream needs.

• Vegan ice cream

  Vegan ice cream recipes built on coconut, cashew and oat bases — no dairy, no eggs, with the mix composition worked out from the ingredients.

• Lactose-free ice cream

  Lactose-free ice cream recipes made with lactose-free milk and cream — and what separates “lactose-free” from “dairy-free”.

• Sugar-free and lower-sugar ice cream

  Ice cream recipes with no added sugar or less of it — and what taking the sugar out does to how hard the ice cream sets.

• Ice cream for kids

  Ice cream recipes for children — no alcohol, no raw eggs, gentler on sugar, and what to watch out for with the youngest.

• Seasonal ice cream recipes

  Ice cream by season: elderflower and rhubarb in spring, strawberries and apricots in summer, currants and pears in autumn.

• Bold flavours

  Savoury, spiced and roasted ice creams — olive oil, miso, goat cheese, wasabi, beer. They sound like a joke, but the mix is worked out to the last gram.

• Trending ice cream

  What people order now and make at home: Dubai chocolate, matcha, ube, mango sticky rice, protein cottage cheese and cookie flavours.