Vanilla Ice Cream - The Best You'll Ever Eat!

By Addie

"This is the best Vanilla Ice Cream you'll ever eat. The pudding makes it so much creamier than plain vanilla ice cream. If you want to add fruit, put the sugar in the chopped fresh fruit ahead of time to sweeten it, and then add to the mixture! Please note: this recipe contains raw eggs. We recommend that pregnant women, young children, the elderly and the infirm do not consume raw eggs. Important: be sure to use only fresh eggs for this recipe."

Ingredients

• 5 eggs
• 2 (12 fluid ounce) cans evaporated milk
• 1/2 pint heavy cream
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 1/2 cups white sugar
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant vanilla pudding mix
• 4 cups milk

Preparation

Step 1

In large bowl, beat together eggs, evaporated milk, cream, condensed milk, sugar and vanilla, with electric mixer. Beat in pudding mix until smooth. Pour into freezer canister of ice cream maker and add enough milk to bring mixture to fill line. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.

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REVIEWS: (138)

Fantastic...but I cooked it! I added all the ingredients to a double-boiler except for the vanilla, pudding mix, and milk. When the mixture got hot, I added the last 3 ingredients and cooked it until just boiling, then removed from heat. It just made me feel better knowing the eggs were cooked. I chilled the custard and then froze it in an ice cream maker. It was extremely creamy and very vanilla! I'll definitely adopt this recipe as our "standard" for vanilla ice cream!

This tastes like frozen store-bought pudding, not ice cream. The consistency after being in the freezer is weirdly stiff yet gooey, like cold Playdough. But if you like frozen pudding, you may like it.

I can't stop making this ice cream! I tried this recipe not only with the cheesecake pudding, but the next time I made it I used the original recipe with vanilla pudding, but used brown sugar instead of white and instead of liquid vanilla, I used a real vanilla bean. Out of this world!!!

YUMMY! This will be the only recipe I will use for vanilla ice cream. It is very rich and creamy! When you scoop it out the ice cream clings to the spoon! I can't wait to try it with other flavors of pudding. I had to scale down the recipe to half and then only 3/4 of it would fit my Cuisinart ice cream maker. I used one carton of egg beaters (2 eggs worth) instead of the fresh eggs and I still put in a whole teaspoon of vanilla. It was perfect!

This is the best ice cream I have ever had. The vanilla version is amazingly rich, but we have used chocolate pudding as well. It came out lighter and just as tasty. We are hooked, and I think it will be a long time before we but store made ice cream again!

This ice-cream is fantastic! I made it for our Family Reunion over the 4th of July and everyone LOVED it -- 5 different people made ice cream and this one got all the raves. I've finally found the recipe to use -- every time I make ice cream I try something new - but no more. This is it! I did use Egg Beaters instead of the raw eggs, and it didn't make a difference. I'd highly suggest that. This is an ice cream without tons of heavy cream and half-and-half, but it still has the rich creamy flavor -- TRY IT!!!!

The way I look at homemade ice cream is if you are going to make it, then you might as well spare no expense and spare no calories. I tried this recipe and thought that it was very easy to make. I put the mixture in a blender to get the lumps out of the mixture from the vanilla. Did not bother to do anything with the eggs, since my husband and I would be eating it and we are not elderly. Used the 32 serving recipe and put it in a 5 quart electric freezer. It "stopped" in 20 minutes and we let the freezer sit for a couple of hours with a towel over the top. It is pretty creamy and did not get hard. But the taste and consistency was fabulous! My husband loved it and we will try this again for our September family reunion. This is a great recipe!!!!

With all of the great reviews I though I could not go wrong with this one! My wife and I both thought the ice cream was only fair. The vanilla recipe that came with my ice cream maker was much better!

This recipe went right into my recipe box! I didn't change a thing to the recipe. This is a great recipe to build on. I have made this with cookie dough chunks added in (cookie dough recipe from this site) and processed about 1 cup of semi-sweet chocolate chips...really great cookie dough ice cream! With the other half of this ice cream I crushed up Oreos and mixed it in. Make sure you do add ins towards the end of the mixing (if using and electric ice cream maker) or when it's done--just before you put it in the freezer. Don't be afraid to decrease the sugar if you don't like really sweet ice cream--you won't miss it. Awesome (and easy) recipe!

In case you're browsing recipes wondering which is The One, you can stop here! My four kids and I made this yesterday. Just pulled it out of the freezer and conducted a blind taste test with Blue Bell as the contender. Truth is, they're almost exactly the same and the kids loved it. (Other home made recipes have gotten thumbs down from the kids). We heated the sugar and milk - held it just under a boil - and stirred in the beaten eggs. Cooked it for about 5 mins then pulled it off the stove top, added the rest and let it chill. 30 mins in the ice cream maker yielded a soft batch, but after a night in the freezer it's frozen solid. (Same as our Blue Bell). Also, since this was a "project" for my kids, they also did a cost comparison. Blue Bell was on sale in the store for $7.00 gallon. The ingredients for this batch was $6.90. Hope you enjoy.

I don't know how you can rate this recipe less than 4 stars if you followed the recipe. We have been trying different recipes for years. Most of them we liked but none came out like this. This recipe is outstanding. You know how you eat home made ice cream it is kind of watery or milky may be a better description. This is thick and creamy like ice cream should be. I can't wait to try more combination's of flavors. I think next will be banana pudding and fresh bananas.

I made this yesterday for a Birthday party. I'm only giving it 4 stars because it was sooo sweet. But that could have been my fault because I didn't add any additional milk (just the 4 cups). I also think adding fresh fruit would cut back on the sweetness. My husband really liked it--he said my other recipe tastes like marshmallow fluff. The vanilla pudding definitely helped with the flavor. I made this again last night for the 4th of July. Since there were young kids I cooked the eggs in a sauce pan on medium along with the milk and sugar for about 20 minutes. I then added the rest of the ingredients and let the mixture sit in the fridge over night. I ended up adding an entire pint of cream. Mainly because I didn't want to waste the other half, but also to cut back on the sweetness. I also added only 1/2 box of vanilla pudding. I like the flavor of adding the pudding, but a whole box gives it an artificial flavor in my opinion. Everyone loved it.

OMG, this ice cream was amazingly rich and creamy!! It had a great texture also! i tried cooking the eggs before using them because it was going to be served to young children, but it ended up tasting and smelling like egg. I tried using pasteurized eggs and those worked waaaaaaaay better!! This is now officially my favorite homemade ice cream and i can't wait to share it with my whole family(all lovers of homemade ice cream)