How to Store Eggnog Ice Cream

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Jennifer Cail. On behalf of Expert Village I'm going to show you how to make this delicious refreshing eggnog ice cream. Now our ice cream has been in the ice cream maker for about 20-25 minutes. This is a little bit more of a liquidly custard base to start with after the addition of the cream. So I left it in the cream maker just a touch longer, let's see about our consistency. You can see that is a nice frozen texture. We have a good creamy consistency for our ice cream so what we are going to do now is take it out of the ice cream maker and then put it in a container to store. You can serve it immediately but you want to put any additional ice cream you are going to want to store it in the freezer where it will be good for about a week or so. Because homemade ice cream doesn't have the preservatives that store bought ice cream has, it's going to get ice crystals or harden rather quickly. So you want to eat this as quickly as possible which shouldn't be a problem so we are just going to put it into a resealable container. You also want to be careful because on the edge of the ice cream maker you can get a bit of a frozen edge there depending on the consistency of your ice cream. You want to be careful that you scoop it out, you want to use if you can a silicon spatula you don't want to use one that is going to be too soft because otherwise it won't be able to scrape everything off. So once you get everything in there you can either serve it now or save it for later, either way you are going to have some delicious eggnog ice cream to serve in your home for you guests for this holiday season."