Aussie Farmers Direct Challenge

I saw Roasted Peach Ice Cream at Dinner with Julies blog and from that point in time I HAD to have an ice cream maker.  Fortunately it was around my birthday and it did not take long for an ice cream maker to enter my possession.

We’ve been getting pears in our Aussie Farmers DIrect box each week and no-one in my family eats pears.  My Nephew has been over a fair bit and devoured most of our pears, but each week at least one turns into a squishy mess in the fruit bowl and gets binned.

Onwards to the recipe…

2 Pears

1/4 cup brown sugar

1 cup cream

1/2 cup vanilla yogurt.

I cut the pears into quarters, peeled and cored them and then roasted them on 250C for about 20 minutes.  They came out smelling delicious.  Should be noted I had not preheated the oven, might not have needed quite as long in a preheated oven.

Let the pears cool down then cut them into small chunks (or put them in the food processor like I did ).   Put the pear into the fridge to chill – remembering that ice cream making requires very cold ingredients.

I mixed together the cream, sugar and yogurt with my hand blender until it was frothy.

Then poured all the ingredients into the ice cream maker and 5 minutes later ta-da ICE CREAM!

I’m stunned at how fast it was.  The icecream I made yesterday took 40 minutes to set.

The Verdict – This got a big two thumbs up from everyone in the family.  No one complained about the pears, everyone wanted more.  And the really important bit, I think this was good enough to get Hubby to wash the dishes for me!