Butter Pecan Ice Cream

Why don't we get started with our ice cream

The first ice cream I'm gonna make today is a butter pecan

And so I'm gonna start by melting a tablespoon of butter. I'm gonna toss the pecans in there and let them toast

And I'm gonna watch them carefully because we don't want them to scorch

Because if they scorch, they're no good. So we're just gonna let those lightly brown right there

and then I'm going to drain them on a little paper towel

I'm going to come over here, and I've got three cups of whole milk, not 2%, not that diet stuff

Three cups of whole milk. And to that, I'm going to add one can of evaporated milk

And now understand that that is evaporated, not condensed milk. Some people will get those too confused

All right, and I'm going to add to this a small pack of vanilla pudding

You can see our ice cream is going to be really, really a nice, pretty yellow

Ooh, that's smelling so good. I'm going to add a cup of sugar. And a teaspoon of vanilla

All right, now today I'm using one of the little counter ice cream makers

You can use this in that type of ice cream maker, or you can use it in a regular ice cream churn

So our bowl has been in the freezer for 24 hours. We're going to turn it on, and this is very important that you turn your machine on first

because if you pour your ice cream mixture in it will immediately freeze to the sides of it and then your blade won go around I just going to slowly pour our ice cream mixture into the freezer

All right, so I'm going to let this churn until the ice cream really starts to thicken

So now it's time to add the butter pecan to our vanilla base

All right, so I'm just gonna slowly add these and let the machine have a chance to mix those in

So this just looks great. Hey, y'all. I'm just fixing to put this in the storage containers and

throw it in the freezer. All right. So I'm just gonna pour this

in the container and I'm gonna throw it in the freezer and let that get nice and hard

And I've already got a strawberry sorbet poured up and you can see it's really, really loose

I've really poured it up in a soft serve state because I'm gonna put it in the freezer

and let it finish hardening. and I've already got some that it's gotten hard

You can see what it looks like and you can see how pretty that is and how fine

Oh gosh, can't wait to taste it. But I think I'm gonna taste this one

Because it's still nice and soft. Mmm. This is me brain freeze