raspberry and limoncello ice cream
Raspberries and lemon go well together as flavour partners so I thought why not add Limoncello instead? A splash of booze in ice cream improves the texture and makes things a little more grown up.
I haven’t added too much so it doesn’t take over the party, but I adore the refreshing citrus flavour it gives this creamy ice cream.
I made the base in my Breville 800 Class Mixer which aside from being stunningly beautiful in matt stainless steel, makes the process virtually effortless. I whipped all the ingredients to a wonderful fluffy mass before running it through my ice cream machine. I’ve found it necessary to do all the whipping as per the recipe, and after the cream is added, to whip it so that the texture is fluffy and thick. This vastly improves the overall texture of the ice cream.
You can use fresh raspberries if they are in season, but I used frozen and allowed them to thaw.
Recipe – Super easy – makes about 800ml
Ingredients
- 230 - 240 g raspberries fresh or frozen
- 1 cup sugar divided
- 3 T Limoncello
- 2 T lemon juice
- 2 large free-range eggs
- 2 cups cream
- 1 cup milk
Instructions
- Put the raspberries in a bowl with half a cup of the sugar, the Limoncello and lemon juice, stir and allow to macerate for a min of 2 hours in the fridge. If you are using frozen, they will need to thaw and the sugar dissolves. I did this overnight. If you are using fresh, you will need to stir these a few times ensuring that they get mashed up.
- Whisk the eggs in the stand mixer for about 2 minutes. Slowly add the other 1/2 cup of sugar and continue to mix for 3 minutes until light, pale and fluffy.
- Pour in the cream and whisk, then add and milk and continue to whisk for another minute or so until it starts to thicken. Add the mashed up raspberries and give it a quick mix to incorporate. Transfer to an ice cream machine and churn according to the manufacturer's instructions until it has set.
- Decant this into a storage container, cover and freeze immediately in the coldest part of your freezer until ready to serve.
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Your ice cream looks fantastic! I’ve never tasted Limoncello, I’ll need to look out for it 🙂
HI Sheena – thank you and its very lemony 🙂
Love the flavours..now we need the recipe for limoncello!
Great post i love lemoncello. I have a Breville convection oven and love it more than my large oven.
Wow, what a flavor combination! Also, I love the trick of booze in ice cream — I learned it from a Food52 article column a few months ago, and the alcohol apparently helps prevents ice cream getting icy and shardy and keeping it as smooth as possible. I can only imagine what the limoncello is doing for this beautiful recipe!
This looks so yummy!! I can’t wait to try this one.
Oh yum! What a fantastic flavor combination… and I’m a big fan of popping a bit of booze in ice cream 🙂
Does the T mean tablespoon or teaspoon??
Thanks 🙂
Limoncello happens to be one of my favourite liqueur flavours ever.. but never have I tried it in an ice cream before. This is a must make ice cream for me!
Nice Thalia. The flavour is very subtle here but the alcohol gives the ice cream a lovely texture.
Hi Claire the T is for tablespoon, t is for teaspoon.
Thanks Michelle – yes I love adding a splash of booze to ice cream to loosen up the texture. Its especially good in sorbet. I must gho and find that Food 52 article.
Hi Nathalie, I actually would love to make limoncello, its not difficult at all. I just need to get a hell of a lot of really great lemons 🙂
oooooh this just sounds awesome. We have some orangcello we got for Christmas that we’ve been slowly sipping on. Your photos are beautiful!
Hi Trish. Thanks so much! – I love the sound of Oragcello. Never heard of it before.
Great Ice cream!
Thanks Francis 🙂
I really want to make this, looks and sounds fantastic, combo of favors I love, but I’m concerned about the use of raw eggs in this recipe. Most every ice cream I’ve made that includes eggs calls for making a cooked custard mixture with the eggs, sugar and cream or milk. Any thoughts about safety would be appreciated – thanks!
Hi Jenny, Im not too sure why people find raw eggs an issue as they are perfectly fine to eat raw if they are fresh. We eat soft eggs etc. Soft eggs are raw yolks. Royal icing is icing sugar and raw egg white. Many people actually add a raw egg to drinks, for protein. My base recipe hre is fashioned around a Ben & Jerrys recipe which uses raw egg and they built an entire ice cream empire on this. Haagen Dasz contains raw egg too. I have been making ice cream for 12 years using raw eggs and Im still going strong :-). If you are pregnant and have been advised to stear clear of raw food then I would suggest not eating this. Or find a recipe out there that uses a cooked custard version. Overall I love the freshness and cleaner cream taste that this ice cream delivers vs a cooked custard which tend to be far richer using around 6 egg yolks.(although I definitely do make those too)
Thanks for response, Sam. I read up (shoul’ve done that before posting!) and found the big salmonella scare seems to be overblown. I am healthy, used fresh, clean eggs from reliable source, and made the recipe. Only change I made was to sieve raspberry mixture because I don’t like seeds. It was spectacular, taste and texture the best of any ice cream I have made!
Oh Jenny I am so thrilled to hear, made my day. I agree, raspberry seeds can be very annoying. 🙂
This is the best! So creamy! I loved it!! Such an amazing summer treat! Looks so delicious and it’s an easy recipe! I’ll be trying this as soon as the weather warms up!
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