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.
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Milky Tea Ice Cream
Yield:
Makes about 7 cups
Prep Time:
10 minutes
Cook Time:
8 minutes
Ingredients
- 3 cups heavy cream
- 1-1/2 cups whole milk
- 8 Joseph Wesley Great Lakes Blend Black Tea bags
- 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons granulated sugar
- 1-1/2 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.
I thought this ice cream was delightful. I had a large bowl of it while you were gone on your girls’ trip to the beach. Shhhhhh.
Such a great idea for ice cream and their tea look sooooo amazing!
Thanks Sophia! Like I mentioned above, I’m not a huge tea drinker, but I can definitely tell this is very nice quality tea 🙂
What a great idea you had on making tea ice cream. Wonderful.. never would have thought of that.
Thanks so much, Ella! I wasn’t sure it would work out, but it totally did, so I’m happy 🙂