Though ice creams are made from few ingredients like cream, milk, eggs, sugar and amazing flavors, there is something special in home made ice creams. Start with simple ice cream base or crème anglaise, mix the ripest summer fruits, high quality chocolate, toasted nuts to create different flavors…

Herbs, spices should be infused into mixture as the milk is heated, even vanilla beans lavender, green tea, fresh peppermint, candied ginger are good choices.

To get good flavor from vanilla bean, split it lengthwise with sharp knife and scrape the seeds into milk. After bean is steep, remove the pod and rinse into cold water and pat dry.

Used vanilla beans will be more aromatic and it can be stored in canister of plain granulated sugar to make vanilla sugar.

The extracts, liqueurs and flavoring oils are to be added, when the custard is cooled slightly.

Ripe fruits, berries can be added to the ice cream base, then sprinkle the fruits with sugar and crush it with potato masher before mixing.

Add nuts, chocolate, crumbled cookies, whole berries, so that the ice cream gets soft consistency and then stir in the garnishes, pack in airtight containers and freeze till it firms.