Ice Cream, Please!

I went to Sur La Table to buy a healthy egg cooker, but came home with this ice cream maker instead. No buyer's remorse here. This has been wonderfully fun; the kids ask for ice cream every day. (We don't actually have it every day, they just ask for it.) Here are the best recipes we've made so far (I'm not including the chocolate gelato because it was too rich for even Maddie; I didn't know such a thing was possible).

Blueberry Sorbet:
(This was the easiest and our favorite so far!)

4 cups frozen blueberries
1 cup water
2/3 cup sugar
2 teaspoons freshly squeezed lime juice

Puree all ingredients in a blender. Freeze in ice cream maker immediately.

Fresh Lime Sorbet:
(Maddie said she would remember how this tasted in heaven, she loved it so much.)

2 cups sugar
2 cups water
1 1/2 cups freshly squeezed lime juice (about 14 limes)

Combine the sugar and water in a saucepan and bring to a boil over medium-high heat. Reduce heat to low and simmer without stirring about 5 minutes. Cool completely. This is called simple syrup. Add lime juice and chill completely.
Freeze in ice cream maker.

Mango Sorbet

2 pounds frozen mango, thawed
2/3 cup sugar
2/3 cup water
2/3 cup milk (I added this to get it to blend; tasted great; optional)
4 teaspoons fresh lime juice
pinch of salt

Blend in blender. Chill thoroughly. Freeze in ice cream maker.

Blackberry Frozen Yogurt:

16 ounces fresh blackberries
1 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup fresh lime juice
3 cups vanilla yogurt

Place blackberries, sugar and lime juice in a bowl. Stir and let stand 2 hours. Blend in a blender. Strain the mixture to remove seeds; discard seeds. Combine the blackberry puree with yogurt; stir. Freeze in ice cream maker.


Orange Creamsicle Sherbet:

1 1/2 cups frozen orange juice concentrate
3 tablespoons sugar
3 cups whole milk
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Blend in a blender until smooth. Freeze in ice cream maker.

Brown Cow Slushy:

2 cups milk
2 cans Jones root beer
1/4 cup sugar.

Stir milk and sugar together. Add chilled root beer. Freeze in ice cream maker 12 -20 minutes.

Where's the vanilla ice cream? Coming soon...