Homemade strawberry ice cream is so rich and creamy, with an amazing fresh strawberry taste. Its egg, and cook free, and so easy to make!
Can you tell that I’ve been on an ice cream kick lately? If you follow me on instagram, I’ve been sharing ice cream every day since Saturday. I love homemade ice cream so much, and this strawberry ice cream is a perfect one to add to my repetoire.
I don’t know if its the hot weather (its been in the upper 90s here for the last 2 weeks or so) or the fact that this coming sunday is national ice cream day, but whatever it is I want to eat ice cream pretty much every day all summer long.
This strawberry ice cream is the freshest of fresh. Its so creamy and has the perfect fresh strawberry flavor. You will use 2 cups of diced strawberries, pureed up in a blender to make the ice cream totally smooth. But if you want it a little chunkier, with pieces of strawberries throughout then you can just mash the strawberries with a potato masher, or forks instead.
The ice cream also needs, sugar, heavy cream, whole milk, a dash of vanilla extract and a dash of salt. That’s it. Only 6 ingredients and an ice cream maker later and you’ve got delicious strawberry ice cream. I often like custard based ice creams, with eggs being tempered in to the cooked heavy cream, but this is an eggless strawberry ice cream and you won’t miss it at all, its nice and creamy still, and so easy to throw it all together!
How to make Strawberry Ice Cream?
This is a plan ahead recipe because you need to put your ice cream maker bowl in the freezer at least 12 hours (or more according to your ice cream maker instructions).
When you’re ready to make the ice cream, you’ll mix your chopped strawberries with some of your sugar in a medium sized bowl. This helps the strawberries release some of their natural juices. Then you can blend that mixture up. Blend it as smooth as you want it, though you don’t want the pieces of strawberry to be too big, as they usually get a bit icy.
Then add your strawberries, heavy cream, milk, vanilla, salt, and remaining sugar into a large bowl to mix them all together. Then pour that strawberry mixture into the ice cream maker. Run the ice cream maker according to the manufactures instructions (mine just takes about 30 minutes).
If you want to eat it right away, it’ll be the consistency of soft serve right after its done in the ice cream maker. You can have homemade strawberry ice cream in only about 40 minutes! But I prefer to freeze it for a few hours (or overnight) in a bread pan or ice cream holder for a few hours (or overnight) and you’ve got nice scoopable ice cream, like I have pictured.
The strawberries give the ice cream the perfect light pink color. Its such a pretty pink, but if you want it really dark you’re welcome to add a couple drops of red food coloring to the mix as well.
How to store homemade strawberry ice cream?
You can keep any leftover ice cream in the container that you froze it in, I usually keep mine in a 9x5inch loaf pan and cover it tightly with plastic wrap, then with foil. Another airtight container would work well also.
It will stay good if kept in the freezer for up to 2 weeks, possibly longer if you can keep the container sealed well to prevent ice crystals from forming.
Frequently Asked Questions:
Can I use frozen strawberries?
Yes, you can use frozen strawberries, you’ll want to let them thaw first, then chop them up if they’re very large before macerating them in the sugar.
Do I need an ice cream maker?
Yes, you need a 2QT ice cream machine to make this recipe. There are several ways to make ice cream with out a machine, so you can attempt one of those with the strawberry cream mixture, but I haven’t tested it out to know how it works.
Can I use blueberries instead of strawberries?
Yes, you should be able to use a variety of fruit, whatever your favorite is – different fruits may need a little more sugar depending on how sweet they already are. Some fruit flavors are also not as strong, but berries should be fine!
How much ice cream does this make?
This recipe makes about 6 to 7 cups of ice cream, or about 12 to 14 half cup servings.
This strawberry ice cream is the perfect summer treat, it’s made with fresh strawberries, no egg yolks, no cooking. It’s the best strawberry ice cream out there, even better than you’ll get from the grocery store. It’s so refreshing, sweet, and easy – and I promise you’ll love it as much as I do!
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING ABOUT THIS STRAWBERRY ICE CREAM:
“I would give this 10 stars if I could! A-ma-zing!! Delicious and so easy!” – Kim
“This is by far the best (and easiest) strawberry ice cream I have ever made. Thank you! I need to figure out how to save this for eternity!” – Kelly
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Strawberry Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups chopped strawberries
- 1 cup sugar (divided)
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 1/2 tsp vanilla extract
- 1 dash salt
Equipment
- Large Mixing Bowl
Instructions
- Freeze ice cream bowl of a 2QT ice cream maker overnight.
- Mix chopped strawberries with 1/2 cup sugar in a medium sized bowl. Allow to set for about 15 minutes so strawberries release their juices.
- Blend strawberries up in a blender or food processor.
- In a large bowl combine strawberry mixture with heavy cream, whole milk, vanilla extract, salt and remaining sugar. Set aside.
- Pour strawberry cream mixture into prepared ice cream maker. Allow to run according to manufactures instructions (Mine is about 30 minutes.)
- Serve now for soft serve ice cream.
- For scoopable ice cream, scoop ice cream into a bread loaf pan and cover with plastic wrap. Place in the freezer for 6 hours up to overnight.
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Elise says
Can I use half and half instead of heavy cream?
Aimee says
You can but your ice cream will be much less creamy since half and half has less fat
Megan Miller says
I have made a lot of ice creams, but this one was by far the easiest! I used some fresh local strawberries and it was so creamy and delicious. Thank you for this!!
Aimee says
I love hearing that! Its a favorite here too, and so good with fresh strawberries! I can’t wait for our garden strawberries to ripen!
Bev says
I made this last night and it’s fabulous! Do you have any more different flavor recipes that are also no egg and cook free?
Aimee says
So glad you loved it! We have several cook free ice cream recipes 🙂 Try our peach, raspberry, blackberry, chocolate with peanut butter, cookies and cream, we have so many!
Brenda Kelly says
Thank you so much for the delicious strawberry icecream recipe❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ we made this today around some smiling, happy pre k students. They had a lot of question. They enjoyed all the steps in making the icecream. We all enjoyed our strawberry ice cream for our snack today. We doubled the recipe and had plenty. This recipe is definitely a keeper. Thank you again so much! We love ice cream!!!!!
Bob R. says
Great recipe! We absolutely loved this and have added it to my recipe app. I am thinking about trying to add some frozen small pieces of banana and some chocolate chunks.
Jelena says
This recipe is so easy to make that I was a little suspicious of the picture, but when I made this desserts, it tasted absolutely amazing and flawless. This website reminds me of when I would cook with my mother. My entire family loves it and I cannot wait to try more of your recipes.
Kalyani Deshpande says
Sounds delicious! I’d like to add dark chocolate chips and almonds as mix-ins? Any idea how much of each to add?
Aimee says
I’d probably do 1/2 cup of each
CJ says
Thank you! This recipe is great! One word of caution, though–this recipe is NOT for the popular, smaller Cuisinart ice cream maker (1.5 qt) The recipe is too big. While you do state clearly it’s for a 2-Qt, I missed that on my first read. Who knew that there was such a thing as ‘too much ice cream’? 😉
Aimee says
Great tip! You should be able to fill your 1.5QT cuisinart to the fill line and just mix up whatever will fit in there. Glad you loved it anyway, sorry if it made a mess 😉
Vicki Edwards says
I have tried other recipes with my kitchen Aid and they were not getting to soft serve as they should have. Yours did the first time. Great results and flavor ! I will try more of them.
Aimee says
I’m so glad you loved it! Definitely try some more of our recipe flavors for delicious homemade ice cream!
Kathryn says
My first time making ice cream and this was so easy! Perfect time of year to use strawberries for something like this and it’s seriously the best strawberry ice cream I’ve ever had!
Lady says
This recipe is going straight to my recipe binder. So creamy, not overly sweet, and the strawberry taste is on point. I used frozen strawberries (a 10oz bag), and after macerating for 30 min, I put it in the microwave for about 1:30 min. Blended 2/3 for the base, and used the rest to mix in towards the end of churning. Strawberry ripple. So good!
Kelly R says
I just used the recipe a few minutes ago. I only made half recipe because no one else likes strawberries (I can’t help they are wrong😂) now I did add a few extra berries cause why not. I had some frozen ones that were picked a few weeks ago. Perfect strawberry ice cream. Note I also used my kitchen aid attachment with ice cream bowl. I didn’t purchase the attachment, someone was giving it away.
Sharon says
Can I use 2% lactate free milk instead of whole milk? How important is the freeze the bowl part? My freezer always packed to the limit,so it’ll be hard to find a big space to put big bowl in there for a long time.
Thanks! I’ll try the recipe this Sunday. I’m so excited n looking forward to making it. This is the first time I’m making ice cream from machine. I probably will have more questions later.
Aimee says
You can’t make ice cream unless the bowl is previously frozen. If its not frozen it will not freeze. Lactate free milk should be fine.
Jill says
Lacks flavor, the mouth feel is a bit icy (and I’m a pro at making ice cream). Just didn’t care for this recipe at all.
Katie says
Well Jill (professional ice cream maker), I’m sad to hear you failed at your attempt at making this delicious ice cream!
It is in fact FULL of flavor and delicious!
I hope that your comment didn’t deter others from experiencing a wonderful summer treat!
Aimee says
So glad you loved it! It’s one of our summer time favorites too.
JBCM says
Sorry you received such a negative reply. Not sure you did anything wrong and your opinion.
Aimee says
We don’t typically publish comments from commenters who don’t reference our recipe. Whether they have questions, are excited to try it, or did try it and what they thought. I didn’t respond to Jill’s comment, it’s from another person who loved the recipe. I’m sorry Jill didn’t like the ice cream, but almost 250 people have reviewed it and the average rating is 5 stars.
J. Bridges says
I am concerned about the water content as well. I have made ice creams with fruit before as well. Cooking it down with some of the sugar creating a bit of a syrup seems to help considerably without losing too much of the fresh strawberry flavor.
Aimee says
You can cook it down if you prefer, I haven’t had any issues with it being too icy.
HKB says
This recipe is a winner! We made a triple batch today with 5cups freshly picked strawberries and (since I didn’t have quite enough fresh ones) one cup of homemade strawberry jam. Mashed them all with a potato masher. We used a 6quart hand-cranked ice cream maker, and cranked until we were afraid the handle might break. The ice cream was so creamy, and stiff enough to hold your cup upside down and it wouldn’t fall out. It didn’t coat the spoon or the roof of your mouth like some cream-based ice cream does. Thank you for a great recipe!!!
Aimee says
So glad you love it!! The triple batch sounds perfect!
Irene Giannotti says
I used freshly picked juicy strawberries. I believe there was too much liquid so it threw the proportions off. It didn’t thicken much but i put it in the freezer anyway and hoping for the best. Any suggestions welcome.
Aimee says
It should be a little less thick than soft serve ice cream, maybe between that and a milkshake. The strawberries shouldn’t have changed too much, let me know how it is after freezing as I always freeze overnight as suggested in the recipe 🙂
Laurasc says
Nothing tastes like home made fresh strawberry ice cream. This recipe is a keeper. I pureed half the sweetened strawberries and crushed the rest with my potato masher. I had 5 strawberries left over so I chopped them up and tossed them in the ice cream while it was being churned. YUM.
Thank you!!!
Eric says
Thank you so much! This is so delicious and so simple and easy! Went strawberry picking yesterday and enjoyed the best strawberry ice cream ever today! I always seem to screw up recipes the first time I try them but not this time. Strawberry fields forever!!!
Amanda says
This is the BEST strawberry ice cream I have ever tasted! My whole family loved it as well as a neighbor. Not only was it delicious, it was simple to make with few ingredients and steps involved. I highly recommend giving it a try.
Lauren says
Hey! Made this ice cream over memorial day weekend and it came out perfect! Wondering about the nutrition facts, what is the serving size ? I don’t see it on the little nutrition fact area. Just curious because I am tracking my macros!
Aimee says
It should be about a heaping 1/2 cup
Rebecca says
This strawberry ice cream tastes the best!
Elise says
Can I use all half and half or a combination of half and half and milk?
Aimee says
You should be fine with all half and half, or with half and half and milk you may end up with a slightly less creamy ice cream from less fat.
Lisa Lee Linke says
I plan on making this ice cream next weekend. I just picked fresh strawberries and wonder if I can do the first step of pureeing the sugared strawberries and freeze until ready to make the ice cream? We can’t wait to try this ice cream!
Aimee says
It should be fine freezing or refrigerating the strawberry mixture for a few days beforehand.
Susan says
Why did it instantly freeze on the sides and kept the paddle from being able to turn?
I made Vanilla and Chocolate with no problems. HEPL!!!
Aimee says
Was your mixture extra thick? I recommend starting the ice cream maker, then pouring in the liquid so it already is mixing when it goes and doesn’t stick at all, but it shouldn’t have frozen instantly unless you accidentally didn’t have it churning for too long.
Rachel says
We went strawberry picking and had an excess of strawberries, so I decided to make this ice cream. Wow am I glad I did. It’s absolutely delicious! And so easy to make. I’ll definitely make this again this summer.
Darlene says
I made this for my elders where I work. It was wonderful and so easy to make. I am going to make it again. They’re begging for more strawberry ice cream. It tastes so fresh and I know what goes in it. I can also pronounce the ingredients. Thanks so much for this wonderful recipe. We all love it!
Aimee says
I love hearing that. So glad you all loved it.