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The Easiest Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

The easiest vanilla ice cream you will ever make, using only 3 ingredients and no ice-cream maker. No cooking, no egg yolks, no fuss. It’s soft and creamy and super delicious!

By tastykitchen · From Open Recipes · 3 ingredients
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The Easiest Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Why it works: Cream and condensed milk work together. They rank in the top 14% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 416 recipes. Both carry ethanol, which smells alcoholic, ethereal. The science ↓

The Easiest Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream

Serves 10
Prep10 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

212Calories
8 gProtein
13 gFat
13 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 3 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Milk1 cup (244ml) whole149
Cream1 tbsp (15ml) heavy51
Vanilla1 tsp extract (4ml)12

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By tastykitchen. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Cream + condensed milktop 14% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together416 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

  2. Cream + vanillatop 15% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together12,301 recipes

    Shared aroma: 2-nonanone (fruity, floral).

  3. Condensed milk + vanillatop 17% of all pairs
    Smell alikelow
    Cooked together647 recipes

    Shared aroma: ethanol (alcoholic, ethereal).

Cream and vanilla barely smell alike, yet cooks put them together in 12,301 recipes: they work on texture and structure more than aroma.

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the vanilla

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cream, condensed milk):

  1. Coconutfits about as well
  2. Vanillathe original
  3. Strawberryfits about as well
  4. Bananafits less well

Fit is the average pairing score against cream, condensed milk. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.