I you have been following my blog for a while you probably have figured out I am big on ice cream. And with spring here and summer arriving…its ice cream season baby!
I have been working on less then traditional flavors too. If you recall my last one was Roasted Black Sesame Seeds ice cream. This time I am going Provencal on you. Today we will make Lavender Ice Cream. Recipe is below.
Lavender ice cream is actually the first less traditional flavor I have ever had. I remember it so well. I was at Meu Meu on St-Denis Street (my fave ice cream spot in town) and after ordering this unusual Lavender scoop I sat on one of the barstools of the ice cream bar and had my first bite.
I was in heaven. It was so good. I wanted more. I wanted to make my own. I wanted my very own ice cream maker. That was a few years back. I put in on my Christmas and birthday list (yes as an adult) for 2 years and I never got it. I asked my mom why and she said she did not think it would be something I would use very long. I was disappointed.
I could not financially excuse the personal expense either. But that dream was finally realized last summer while I was visiting a friend in Toronto. She was moving and cleaning her place. She had one and said she was going to sell it. SOLD! I screamed. She actually ended up offering it to me as a gift. I have been making ice cream every since. I want to bring you the joy mine has brought me!
Lavender Ice Cream
- 2 cups of milk
- 2 Tbsp dried lavender
- 3/4 cup sugar
- 1/4 tsp. salt
- 2 cups light cream
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 cup blueberries, optional
- Gently heat the milk till about to boil but do not let it boil.
- Add the dried lavender and steep for 5 min (longer makes it bitter)
- Strain out the lavender (I left a little bit in for texture and the look)
- Stir in the salt and sugar, mix till dissolved. Then stir in vanilla extract and cream
- Chill for 2 hours
- Churn or process as your ice cream maker directs
Is that not a great and unusual recipe? Check out this link for other phenomenal lavender recipes. I got the ice cream recipe on that site but I adapted it a lot.
I missed the deadline, but that’s okay, because I haven’t got a Twitter account anyway:) I just wanted to tell you about my favourite ice cream flavour: sweet cream, from Greg’s in Toronto. It’s just like it sounds–cream, milk, eggs, sugar–pure, fresh, creamy and sweet. Perfect with hot fudge sauce on the side. Try it next time you go! The cardamom and the roasted marshmallow are also pretty amazing!
Oh my fav ice cream flavour is triple chocolate chip (I know a little boring but I really do like it). Cheers from Audax in Sydney Australia.
Wow I like your enthusiasm for ice cream lovely photos also. And lavender is such a great flavour for ice cream well done. Cheers from Audax in Australia. Superb effort and posting.
Favourite ice cream?: Cherry Garcia
My favorite ice cream joint in the city is also Meu Meu! Though I wish they’d do some “straining” in some of the flavors. I love love love the Earl Grey flavor, but hate hate hate having to chew on tea leaves! That is probably my favorite flavor of ice cream, but I’m also fond of chunky monkey (our wedding cake was sort of an homage to this – banana and chocolate), chocolate and nut gelatos, pear sorbet and good old vanilla.
My favorite flavour is chocolat chip!
Favorite flavour is lemon
My favorite flavor is Creme Brulee! (At least today, it is.)
YES ! I want to win this fabulous machine 🙂
My favorite icecream (today !) is Salted Butter Caramel.
I follow you on twitter, and I twitted the message.
Have a nice day !
My favorite icecream is avocato with chocolate chips. But it is soooo hard to get, is sad
Roasted Marshmallow. I have no idea how they do it, and you’ll have to drive to Toronto from Montreal for it, but it’s the best thing I’ve ever eaten. Since moving to Montreal, the next best choice is Brouhaha from Bilboquet. Brownie pieces with caramel chunks and a thick caramel sauce. Completely indulgent and decadent. Falling in love in Outremont was never so easy.
french vanilla
Ooo I’ve been hankering for an ice cream machine ever since Conor @ Hold the Beef put up her delectable creations. Your post has just amplified that want by 100%!!
My flavour of choice? Turkish Delight….look out Edmund Pevensie…
I can never go past cookies and cream
My favorite ice cream flavor is black sesame seed.
Chocolate fudge
chocolat chips cookie dough!
double chocolate
My favourite ice scream is Pineapple/Basil
I’m craving for strawberry and ginger ice cream, miaaam!
My favorite ice cream flavor is Bailey’s Irish Cream ice cream. Yum!
OMG! I am probably the biggest Ice cream lover after you! It is my dream to make homemade Ice cream but for some reason I “freeze” when it’s time to buy a machine!
My favorite flavor.. so hard to decide! I love many but a really good vanilla bean gelato is something I enjoy alot… and nothing beat the classics!
My favorite ice cream is pistachio!
Bonjour Evelyne,
I am a ice cream fan !!!! Last summer I worked with Carte D’Or (a big ice cream’s brand in Europe) it was amazing.
My favorite ice cream flavor is strawberry.
I want this ice cream machine!!! Last summer, I missed the opportunity to buy one!
I do love eating one scoop of lavender ice cream with one of rose (and maybe another scoop of banana) while sunbathing at Jardin du Luxembourg every time I go back to Paris… eheheh!
BUT what I absolutely wanna do with this machine is a tomato and basil sherbet! (I tried it once and it’s AMAZING!)
THANKS!
oh j’aimerais beaucoup moi qui suis pas chanceuse au sujet de gagner des trucs.. et la crème glacée à la lavande j’en salive juste d’y penser…
I think, other than bubblegum ice cream (from Baskin Robbins), I only have ever had a variance of chocolate ice cream, which always hits the spot. My favorite would probaly be a type of rocky road, maybe minus the marshmallows, and add in some chocolate covered pretzels!
ok, so I don’t Tweet, but I DID post about it on the blog:
I hope that’s enough to qualify!
I usually go for the nastiest, chunkiest, chocolatiest flavors, but orange sherbet takes me back to the summers of my childhood, so I’d have to call it favorite.
My favorite ice cream flavor is coffee!
Miam…. ice cream… I have to say that my favorite one is lavender!!! I’ll try to do your recipe soon!
Nice, we don’t have an ice cream maker at home. This would be cool to win.
But if anyone wants to win something hot, we’ve giving away a hot chocolate maker over on The Chocolate Cult this week.
My fave flavour? This little ice cream place in my neck of the woods makes Hazelnut Piemontese ice cream. I DO love those nuts 🙂 Anything nuts actually. (BTW, you don’t need to be told I already follow you on Twitter, and with great pleasure, may I add 🙂
Cool! (no pun intended)
I love baking or making sweets with lavender – I try not to put too much lavender, ever since a friend of mine told me she once tasted chocolate-lavender muffins and said: “It was like eating bedsheets.” Made me laugh. 🙂
I think when it comes to ice cream, I’ll always be a dark chocolate girl, though.
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My all time favorite ice cream is rum raisin!
Tweeted and already following you 🙂
I’m a great fan of nougat icecream!
Wouhou, ICE CREAM!! My favorite flavor is matcha! (Havre des glaces at marché Jean-Talon makes a really good one! 🙂
I’m already following you on twitter! Nice giveaway!
Favorite flavour- anything chocolate:)
To be honest? LAVENDER! I recently visited a lavender farm and tasted my first lavender ice cream there and fell in love.
It was FANTASTIC.
I love fresh strawberry ice cream.
My favourite flavour? Plain old vanilla.
I follow you on Twitter.
Tweeted.