Ingredients for Pumpkin Ice Cream

Series Summary

Pumpkins are a large orange fruit commonly eaten and cooked to make a variety of traditional holiday dishes, including pumpkin pie, pumpkin bread and pumpkin seeds. Pumpkins can range in size from 9 to 18 pounds, with some varieties capable of reaching over 75 pounds. The color of the skin is normally orange or yellow, but can be green, white, red or gray in different varieties. Because of their versatility, pumpkins can be boiled, baked, roasted or mashed and is often served during fall holidays like Thanksgiving.

In this free video series, our expert will take another look at traditional pumpkin dishes and show you how to make pumpkin ice cream. This creamy treat takes some time and effort to make, but it is definitely worth it. You will learn each easy to follow step for preparing the pumpkin, making a creamy custard, and mixing all the ingredients together. With any ice cream maker, you can then turn a delicious pumpkin creation into a cold creamy treat. Let our expert show you how to turn those left over cans of pumpkin filling into a dessert the whole family will love.

Video Transcript

"Hi! I'm Jennifer Cail and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to make this delicious, sweet, and refreshing pumpkin ice cream. Our first step for making pumpkin ice cream is a list of ingredients that you will be needing in order to make the ice cream. First, of course, you'll need pumpkin. I recommend using canned pumpkin instead of trying to cook down your own pumpkin. In order to insure consistency into both texture and taste. Secondly, you'll need a pint of heavy whipping cream. Heavy cream can either be labeled heavy cream or whipping cream, but it's the same thing. You'll also need some vanilla, ginger, ground cinnamon, ground nutmeg, a little bit of salt, some dark brown sugar. Not light brown sugar, but dark brown sugar, and about 5 eggs. Together when cooked properly, this will make your pumpkin ice cream with a custard base both for food safety and for nice smooth creamy consistency."