A month ago, I was putting the following ingredients together for a fruit sauce. While making it, I was reminded of ice cream. It looked delicious and cold. I gave it a taste, and it was amazing! So I decided that I was indeed making ice cream. This combination is sweet, but not too sinful. For the final touch, I added the magic ingredient: homemade vanilla bean extract. The silky vanilla really comes through!
This is awesome!
vanilla extract is the secret ingredient!
Ingredients
600g bag frozen fruit, I used mixed berries
1/4 to 1/2 cup icing sugar
1/2 cup cream
2 tablespoons vanilla extract
Using a food processor, blitz the frozen fruit until it is a fine paste. Add icing sugar, cream and vanilla. Continue processing the ingredients until they resemble ice-cream. Put into containers of your choosing and freeze. Use within a few days.
*You could easily use a different sweetener, like maple syrup or agave syrup. Coconut milk might be a nice substitute for the cream. Experiment and let me know how it turns out for you!
Tammy Schmidt, Montreal
fleurbain 
Yes!!! I am going to try some variations of this, and try making it through schmushing the berries and then using my hand-mixer.
sweet!
Smoothies made with a hand-mixer end up like ice-cream. Just thaw the berries a little bit and/or add more cream.
Will do, thanks on the tips!