Making homemade ice cream is a tutorial that I have been wanting to do for forever!!  I love ice cream.  Unfortunately it doesn’t love me.  But, I keep coming back to it, expressing my love, and never ending commitment.  It doesn’t matter.  It wants nothing to do with me. 

Also having love and devotion for my KitchenAid mixers, I had my sights set on the KitchenAid Ice Cream Maker Attachment.  I had seen it for over a hundred dollars from a couple of stores, so when I found it on sale for $90 CAD, I ordered it right away from Golda’s Kitchen, which is an online baking supply store in Canada. 

I was set to love this attachment.  I always do that to myself.  I set myself up for adoration, and when it doesn’t live up to my level of love, I’m disappointed.  I think I thought that this attachment would magically make ice cream, pretty much instantaneously.  But, you actually have to MAKE ice cream!  Well, duh Jenn . . . life is not meant for laziness!

In my naivety, I thought I would just have to throw the ingredients into the freeze bowl and turn it on, and viola, ICE CREAM.  Nope, not how’s it done.  You have to warm and cook the creams, sugar and eggs, and THEN you can throw them into the freeze bowl?!  NOPE.  You have to chill the warm mixture first for eight hours, and THEN you can throw the mixture into the freeze bowl?!  YES!  Finally. 

Other than the fact that this machine is not a magic machine, I liked it.  You have to be prepared though since many of the steps require freezing and chilling.  The freeze bowl needs to be completely frozen before using it, and in the directions it says not to take the bowl out of the freezer until you are ready to pour the cream in- and they mean it.  I tested that accidentally.   If the freeze bowl is not completely frozen, the ice cream will not freeze, no matter how much you stir it, will it, or scream at it.  Trust me on that one.

I would also like to make a comment to the parts “namers” at KitchenAid . . .”freeze bowl”, “dasher”, “driver”. . . seriously KitchenAid?  You couldn’t have found better names for these parts?  It took me like a million takes to get those names right!  It felt like I was reading off Santa’s reindeer. 

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