Key Lime Ice Cream
For anyone who loves lime, this key lime ice cream recipe for you. It will make your mouth pucker with it's fresh tart goodness before mellowing out with the sugars and graham cracker swirl.
Ingredients
- 1.5 cups whole milk
- ½ cups heavy cream
- 1 14 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
- ⅛ tsp Salt
- Zest of 3 limes
- 1 cup of fresh lime juice or Key Lime juice
- 8 oz Graham Crackers 14 large crackers
- 5 tbsp butter melted
- 2 tbsp all-purpose flour
Instructions
Key Lime Ice Cream
- Zest 3 limes, set zest aside
- Juice limes (about 15) into a large bowl
- Add milk, heavy cream, condensed milk, lime zest and salt to lime juice
- Whisk to combine
- Pour into a freezer proof container and place in the freezer for an hour (give it a stir at least twice) to ensure the key lime ice cream mixture is cold.
- Pour ice cream mixture into your ice cream maker, and churn for 25 minutes (or your ice cream maker’s instructions for ice cream).
Graham Cracker Swirl
- Put graham crackers in a bag. Crust with a rolling pin to makes crumbles OR put graham crackers in food processor and crumble
- Pour crumbs into a bowl
- Add butter and flour to crumbs
- Mix with a fork
- Bake in the over for 15-20 minutes (or until brown), flipping the crumbs for an even bake.
- Allow to cool graham cracker crumbs completely before adding to ice cream.
Combine ingredients
- Remove ice cream from ice cream maker
- Put into an ice cream quart container or bread pan
- Sprinkle graham cracker on top of ice cream and swirl in with a knife.
- Freeze for at least 4 hours for a more solid ice cream (skip this and you get soft serve style)
Notes
If you don't want such an intense lime flavor, simply cut the number of limes you use in the recipe.