Fast and Easy Creamy Ice Cream

Using only two ingredients, this ice cream recipe consistently produces thick, creamy ice cream. It can be made fat-free or sugar free in any flavor available in a pudding mix. This recipe is ideal for busy cooks, children, elderly people, diabetics, or dieters who cannot find sugar-free ice cream they like, or anyone who wants to impress guests with little effort. This recipe has been tested in a Cuisinart®® 2-quart electric ice cream maker, the kind where you freeze the bowl overnight and do not need ice or salt. This ice cream tastes like very good commercial ice cream.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Total Time: 10 mins
• Calories: 269 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 quart half-and-half
• 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant pudding mix, any flavor

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Place the bowl of an ice cream maker in the freezer until completely chilled, at least 1 hour.

Step 2

Chill half-and-half in the freezer, shaking every 10 minutes, until chilled but not frozen, about 30 minutes.

Step 3

Pour chilled half-and-half and pudding mix into a bowl and mix well with a whisk.

Step 4

Place frozen bowl of ice cream maker into the ice cream maker; add the stirring component and lid. Turn on the machine so the bowl is rotating. Pour pudding mixture into the machine through the hole in the lid.

Step 5

Allow ice cream to process in the ice cream maker until desired consistency is reached, about 30 minutes.