Prepare Pumpkin & Vanilla for Pumpkin Ice Cream

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. Let's get ready for our first step, which is measuring out the pumpkin and then mixing it with some vanilla. As I mentioned before, one of the most important things to remember about ice cream making is that you need to plan a lot in advance. For instance, the pumpkin and the vanilla that I'm going to also be putting in the pumpkin, needs to sit for at least 3 hours in the refrigerator. I got around some of this problem by sticking the whole can of pumpkin in the fridge. Normally, if you're making the ice cream, you need to account for 3 hours before you even start having the pumpkin sit with the vanilla in the refrigerator. That's one cup, which is going to be about half of a 15 ounce can of pumpkin. You just want to measure it out, scoop it with a spatula. That's an easy way of getting it out. You want to make sure that it's packed into the measuring cup. You don't want to have any air holes, because then you're not going to have the full amount of pumpkin that you are supposed to. Scoop a little bit more of this. Now, because it's only half a can, there are a few other things that you can use the leftover pumpkin for. It's not enough to make a pumpkin pie, but you can probably make a little pumpkin pie if you have any leftover crust from Thanksgiving or any pie baking. You can also use it for making a pumpkin cheesecake, another video that's on Expert Village. Okay, we've got that in there. Then we want just one teaspoon of vanilla. When you're using vanilla, it's important to use real vanilla and not vanilla flavoring. It'll make a world of difference in the taste of your bake goods. Although, be aware that all vanilla that is real vanilla is going to have alcohol in it. If you're baking it, you don't have to worry about it. The alcohol is going to bake off, but you never want to have straight vanilla from the bottle. It won't taste very good anyway. Now, we're ready to cover this and put it in the refrigerator."