The Best Homemade Ice Cream Recipes

Food & Wine's best ice cream recipes.

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5 Variations on Homemade Ice Cream

1. Vanilla Bean Ice Cream

This exceptionally creamy ice cream relies on two unexpected ingredients: cornstarch (to help thicken it) and cream cheese (to make it more scoopable).

2. Sweet Red Wine Ice Cream

Italy's white dessert wines like vin santo may be better known, but its red dessert wines like Moscato Rosa and Sagrantino Passito offer intriguing berry flavors that make them worth seeking out—to drink on their own or as a sweetener for ice cream.

3. Once-a-Year Cheesecake Ice Cream

Once a year we just have to have cheesecake ice cream, a fabulously rich dessert that's very easy to make and very hard to stop eating.

4. Guinness Ice Cream with Chocolate-Covered Pretzels

The ice cream has a strong, malty Guinness flavor that goes supremely well with the salty, milk chocolate–covered pretzels.

5. Superquick Strawberry Ice Cream

Ferran Adrià shows his inventiveness by revealing how to make a delicious helado without an ice cream maker.