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Make your next summer dessert special with a simple red wine ice cream that doesn’t need to be cooked or cooled. Add all the ingredients to your ice cream maker and churn until frozen!

A couple years ago a friend sent me a pin on Pinterest for red wine ice cream that was 5% alcohol. Being a connoisseur of wine and also ice cream (if buying whatever is on sale and doesn’t taste like hand sanitizer makes you a connoisseur) I immediately wanted to try it. But I couldn’t find it anywhere local for purchase and at the time I wasn’t entirely sure I wanted to waste wine on ice cream experiments. Priorities.

But when Gloria Ferrer sent me a bottle of Chardonnay for this beautiful Chardonnay Cake they also sent a fantastic bottle of red. The roommates aren’t big red drinkers, especially if it’s a dry red, which this Cabernet was. More for me! 😉

So when someone else brought over another bottle of wine for a dinner party and then we had the box of wine leftover from this black bean soup we had a LOT of red wine and only little old me to drink it. And since I like wine but I’m definitely not a drink-a-glass-every-day kind of girl I had to do something with it.

And then I started waxing nostalgic about wine ice cream.

I found several recipes on Pinterest but they required a cooked base and steeping or reducing the wine to remove the alcohol. Let’s be real. Ain’t nobody got time for that. Save for my old fashioned vanilla ice cream I much prefer my ice cream bases to be uncooked and quick.

But I also still like to churn my ice cream in my handy dandy ice cream maker (aff) because the churning helps the sugar dissolve {kind of like whipping meringues until the sugar crystals are all gone} and because it produces a creamier texture. I also like to skip the sweetened condensed milk that most no churn ice cream recipes have.

Don’t have an ice cream maker? No problem! If you have a stand mixer you can put the bowl of the mixer into the freezer for about 30 minutes and then beat the ice cream in the chilled bowl with the wire whisk attachment. That’s your kitchen hack for today but for best results use an ice cream maker 🙂

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Red Wine Ice Cream

Yield: 2 servings

Prep Time: 20 minutes

Total Time: 20 minutes

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Ingredients

• 1/2 cup milk
• 1/2 cup sugar
• 1 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup dry red wine

Instructions

1. In a medium bowl combine milk, sugar, cream, and red wine and stir until combined.
2. Pour into your ice cream maker according to the directions that came with your machine.
3. Churn until thickened and creamy. Mine took about 15-20 minutes.

Notes

*Because you are not cooking out the alcohol this ice cream recipe is very soft. Alcohol does not freeze so doubling or tripling this recipe will increase the alcohol content and may result in ice cream that doesn't set up properly. If you'd like to make enough ice cream for more than 2 people make them in separate batches.

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