Description
Quick, indulgent pioneer woman peach ice cream celebrates summer’s sweetest harvest with creamy homemade goodness. Texas-style dessert rewards you with luscious, fresh peach flavors that dance across your palate.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1.5 lbs (680 g) peaches, fresh, pitted and diced
- 6 large egg yolks
- 2 cups (480 ml) heavy cream
- 1 cup (200 g) sugar
- ½ cup (120 ml) buttermilk, cold, whole
- 1 pinch kosher salt
Instructions
- Peach Compote Preparation: Meld diced peaches with sugar in a saucepan, simmering until peaches soften and release luscious juices, approximately 10 minutes.
- Peach Puree Creation: Pulse softened peaches in a blender, preserving delicate fruit fragments, then cool to room temperature.
- Cream Base Development: Combine sugar, heavy cream, and salt in a saucepan, gently heating and stirring until sugar completely dissolves.
- Egg Tempering Technique: Whisk egg yolks, gradually introducing warm cream while stirring to prevent curdling, then merge with original cream base.
- Custard Refinement: Return mixture to low heat, stirring until it coats a wooden spoon. Strain through a fine-mesh sieve into a bowl nestled in an ice bath.
- Flavor Integration: Fold in peach puree and buttermilk, mixing until perfectly uniform and smooth.
- Flavor Maturation: Refrigerate mixture for 4-8 hours, allowing flavors to deepen and meld.
- Churning and Freezing: Process in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions, then either serve immediately as soft-serve or freeze for 4 hours to achieve a firmer texture.
Notes
- Manage Peach Texture: Pulse peaches briefly to maintain small fruit chunks, ensuring delightful bursts of flavor in every bite.
- Prevent Egg Curdling: Temper egg yolks carefully by slowly adding warm cream while whisking constantly to create a smooth, silky base.
- Optimize Flavor Development: Refrigerate the mixture for at least 4 hours or overnight to allow ingredients to meld and intensify the peach essence.
- Achieve Perfect Consistency: Freeze for 4 hours after churning to transform the ice cream from soft-serve to a perfectly scoopable dessert.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Cook Time: 20 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks, Drinks
- Method: Simmering
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 360
- Sugar: 34 g
- Sodium: 50 mg
- Fat: 26 g
- Saturated Fat: 16 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 10 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 38 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 5 g
- Cholesterol: 300 mg