Cuisinart Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker giveaway!

How fabulous is Sydney’s weather right now?! With beautiful 28 degree weather, it’s the perfect time to make some delicious ice cream and thanks to the awesome people at Kitchenware Direct one lucky Chocolate Suze reader will win a Cuisinart Ice Cream, Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker so keep on reading for your chance to win!

I was super excited to fill my freezer with delicious treats and couldn’t wait to get started. A recipe booklet comes along with the machine so I went and did a mini tasting platter with an old school Malaysian style taro ice cream sandwich, green tea frozen yoghurt and a Coke slushie. Before beginning an ice cream recipe, the 2L double insulated bowl must be frozen for a minimum of 24 hours. There’s also recipes for custard type of ice cream using eggs, gelato recipes and sorbet recipes.


Ingredients for a basic ice cream:
1 ½ cups whole milk
1 ⅛ cups granulated sugar
3 cups thickened cream
Flavourings


Using a mixer, beat the milk and sugar together on low speed until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the thickened cream and any flavourings eg fruit and pour mixture into freezer bowl. Turn the machine on and let it mix until thickened, approx 20-25mins. The machine is a tad on the noisy side but hey it’s cos it’s hard at work churning!


Ooh purple! Helen had given me a couple of packets of bubble tea drink powder flavours so I randomly added a packet of taro flavoured powder to my ice cream which turned out pretty tasty! And because I knew I wanted to do an ice cream sandwich I had frozen my ice cream mixture in a loaf tin lined with cling wrap.


I scored this crazy swirly bread from Bread Story which had awesome taro swirled within


TADAH! Taro ice cream sandwich deliciousness! Next time I am totally making sweet corn ice cream sandwich mmm


Frozen yoghurt ingredients:
1 ⅔ cups whole milk
¾ cup caster sugar
1L of yoghurt
¼ cup heavy cream
Flavourings


Using a mixer, beat the milk and sugar together on low speed until the sugar has dissolved. Stir in the yoghurt and thickened cream and any flavourings eg fruit (I used green tea powder) and pour mixture into freezer bowl. Turn the machine on and let it mix until thickened, approx 20-25mins.


Transfer the frozen yoghurt to an airtight container and place in freezer for 2 hours. Remove from freezer about 15 mins before serving.


Nawwww ain’t he a cutie??


Last but not least- a Coke slushie!


Pour 6 cups of soft drink into freezer bowl, turn the machine on and let mix until thick and slushie-like, about 15-20mins. Serve immediately.


It was just so freaking easy to make my own slushies! Thinking about all the drinks I can turn into a slushie now- ginger beer, energy drinks, champers!


With the Ice Cream Maker, it’s as simple as adding your favourite ice cream base and flipping the switch. Featuring a double insulated freezer bowl which can hold up to 2 litres of frozen dessert, the fully automatic heavy-duty motor makes frozen desserts or drinks in as little as 25 minutes and has a large ingredient spout for adding mix-ins.

So now thanks to Kitchenware Direct, who wants to win the very awesome Cuisinart Ice Cream-Frozen Yoghurt & Sorbet Maker? All you have to do is leave a comment in this blog post answering:

What is your favourite ice cream memory?

The most creative entry will win this awesome prize! You can enter as many times as you like, but you must be an Australian resident. Please enter a valid email address. Competition closes Friday 8th April 2011, 10am aest.


Thanks to everyone who entered the comp! Kitchenware Direct has chosen our winner: Christine Boland and runners up Tee and Raff. Congrats guys!