
That's what made the “ice milk” of my youth, part of the war against fat in the 1990's, a poor substitute for the ice cream I really wanted!Ĭan I make this recipe for ice cream without cream, without evaporated whole milk, too? You'll also find that ice cream that has too much water is less fun to eat because it will taste colder in your mouth. But they also both have enough fat and sugar to interrupt the formation of ice crystals. In our recipe for 3 ingredient no-churn vanilla ice cream, we get the sugar from sweetened condensed milk, and fat from the condensed milk and the heavy whipping cream.īoth evaporated milk and cream have water, which does freeze solid. The potential ingredients that don't freeze solid in ice cream, and help keep it soft, are: And part of it is ingredients that don't become completely solid in your freezer (by lowering the freezing point of the churned mixture).

Part of that soft texture is the creaminess we all love. There are two main factors that make ice cream soft. As long as your recipe has some of them, in the right amounts, your ice cream should still be scoopable and creamy. There are lots of ingredients that can help keep ice cream soft. You need a different recipe, and now you have it! You can't leave out the heavy cream in a classic ice cream recipe, or just replace it with milk, though. And it will still have the proper dreamy ice cream texture you love.

Yes, you can make ice cream at home without heavy cream.

#SUBSTITUTE FOR HEAVY CREAM DAIRY FREE HOW TO#
Discover how to make ice cream without cream and even without sweetened condensed milk, and enjoy smooth, creamy treats all year long.Ĭan you really use milk instead of heavy cream for ice cream?
