Milky Tea Ice Cream

Other than the occasional cardamom tea latte, I’m not much of a tea drinker, since my day revolves around numerous cups of hot and cold coffee (and ice cream + coffee, ala affogato coffee). Still, the tea was too nice to let go to waste.

Since no food is better suited to a hot Michigan summer than ice cream (hello, banana pancake ice cream and blueberry cheesecake ice cream), I decided to use some tea bags to flavor homemade ice cream.

The result is a creamy and rich vanilla-based ice cream that is lightly flavored with tea.

And not gonna lie, this whole situation could be even more improved by serving it in a brownie bowl, or on top of malted waffles.

Milky Tea Ice Cream

Author: Lori Yates

Yield: 14 servings

Prep: 8 hours hours 10 minutes minutes

Cook: 8 minutes minutes

Additional Time: 4 hours hours

Total: 12 hours hours 18 minutes minutes

Tea bags are the perfect way to create really fun homemade ice cream flavors!

5 from 4 ratings

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Ingredients

• ▢ 3 cups heavy cream
• ▢ 1 ½ cups whole milk
• ▢ 8 Joseph Wesley Great Lakes Blend Black Tea bags
• ▢ 1 cup + 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
• ▢ 1 ½ tablespoons vanilla extract
• ▢ Lush Nuts Coconut Lavender Handcrafted Almonds chopped, for garnish

Instructions

• Place cream, milk and tea bags in medium saucepot; heat over medium-high heat 8 to 10 minutes or until just simmering (do not let come to a full boil), stirring occasionally. Remove from heat; let stand 5 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove and discard tea bags.
• Place milk mixture and sugar in mixing bowl; mix on medium-low speed 2 minutes or until sugar is dissolved. Stir in vanilla. Cover with plastic wrap; chill completely (I recommend overnight).
• Pour milk mixture into ice cream machine and freeze according to instructions for machine (mine took about 25 minutes). Transfer ice cream to freezer to harden completely (at least 4 hours). Serve garnished with chopped almonds.

Serving: 0.5cup, Calories: 255kcal, Carbohydrates: 19g, Protein: 2g, Fat: 19g, Saturated Fat: 12g, Polyunsaturated Fat: 1g, Monounsaturated Fat: 5g, Cholesterol: 61mg, Sodium: 24mg, Potassium: 90mg, Sugar: 19g, Vitamin A: 792IU, Vitamin C: 0.3mg, Calcium: 66mg, Iron: 0.1mg

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