J has been bugging me to make homemade ice cream all summer long. I finally made it for him a few weeks ago. Aren’t I a good wife?!

For our wedding, we received a Lowe’s gift card, as a present, from one of our friends. Did we use the gift card for a hammer or nails or plywood, you ask? No,…..we found the most kitchen-y thing and used it on that…..which was our icecream maker! And we have never regretted it!

Different from the old, crank style icecream makers, this one is electric. All you have to do is make the custard, refrigerate it until its cold, and then pour it into the maker, flip the spin switch, and there it goes! Twenty minutes later, you have delicious icecream. Of course, the best is if you let it get a bit harder in the freezer!

J bought peaches at the store and we waited for them to ripen as long as possible and then we did the deed and made our delicious icecream.

We’ve usually used Alton Brown’s icecream recipes, after watching one of his episodes called, “Churn Baby, Churn”, but I felt like trying something new, so instead used Barefoot Contessa’s simple vanilla icecream recipe (which I can’t now, for the life of me, locate….I think Food Network took it off their site. I really do! It disappeared).

Nevertheless, it was delicious. And yummy. And, oh so good!

So, if you’re in the mood for homemade icecream with no hassle, check out the Cuisinart Icecream Maker.

It will make you happy, I promise.

Tags: alton brown, Barefoot Contessa, cuisinart, homemade, ice cream, lowes, peach, vanilla icecream

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