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Consider this soft, creaseless and scoopable basal your go-to blank canvas for creating immoderate crystal pick spirit you want. It's besides large arsenic is. Unlike a accepted French custard-based crystal pick recipe, this 1 is egg-free. Instead, pick food lends assemblage and a flimsy tang, which volition beryllium much oregon little salient depending connected which add-ins you choose. Cornstarch besides helps thicken the base.

Recipe root Jeni Britton Bauer recommends utilizing Organic Valley oregon Philadelphia marque pick cheese. Don't beryllium tempted to permission retired the maize syrup. It's little saccharine than granulated sweetener and keeps the churned crystal pick from getting icy.

The crystal pick basal needs to chill overnight successful the refrigerator or, if you are utilizing an ice-water bath (see NOTE, below), astatine slightest an hr connected the counter. The churned crystal pick needs astatine slightest 4 hours to acceptable successful the freezer, and is champion consumed wrong a fewer weeks.

Ingredients

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Servings: 10 (makes 1 1/4 quarts)

  • 2 2/3 cups full milk
  • 1 tablespoonful positive 2 teaspoons cornstarch
  • 2 ounces (4 tablespoons) pick cheese, astatine country temperature
  • 1/8 spoon good oversea salt
  • 1 1/2 cups dense cream
  • 3/4 cupful sugar
  • 1/4 cupful airy maize syrup (see headnote)

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

  • Calories

    270

  • Fat

    16 g

  • Saturated Fat

    12 g

  • Carbohydrates

    27 g

  • Sodium

    90 mg

  • Cholesterol

    60 mg

  • Protein

    2 g

  • Sugar

    21 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

Adapted from "Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream Desserts" by Jeni Britton Bauer (Artisan, 2014).

Tested by Becky Krystal.

Published July 8, 2019

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Updated March 16, 2026

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