French Silk Ice Cream

prep time: 7 minutes, plus time to churn yield: 6 servings

A woman mentioned to me that she didn’t want to be
a “stick in the mud” mom for not taking her kids to
those frozen yogurt shops that are popping up on
every corner. When I was a teenager, I mistakenly ate
fat-free frozen yogurt for dessert thinking that it was a
safe “diet” food. Nope, it isn’t! At one of the top
frozen yogurt chains, the ingredients for vanilla
yogurt powder are pure crystalline fructose, dextrose,
maltodextrin, nonfat milk, yogurt powder, and micro-
encapsulated probiotic (Lactobacillus sporogenes).

And have you seen the prices at those places?! I often
get questions about the cost of the ingredients I
recommend. I calculated the price of my ice cream
recipe with top-notch ingredients like organic coconut
oil and farm-fresh organic eggs. The result: $3.13 per
pint. Not bad considering that Ben & Jerry’s costs
about $4.00 a pint and Cold Stone Creamery’s costs
$7.50 a pint—and it has 2 grams of trans fat!

You can buy most of the ingredients used in my
recipes in bulk and store them in a chest freezer to
lower the cost even more. And ice cream tastes so
much better when you make it fresh at home!