Jun. 28, 2021
Cooking In Season
Salad Meals to Beat the Heat
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when it’s too hot to cook!
The idea for this delicious strawberry cheesecake icecream recipe came to me because of my granny’s lemon curd. During the stay home order, I made my grandmother’s recipe several times, until we actually couldn’t eat it any more, and my son suggested we turn the excess lemon curd into ice cream. (!) I know, he’s a genius.
I had a lot of cream cheese on hand, but no whipping cream, and since we were prohibited from grocery shopping more than once per week, I set out to make some kind of frozen dessert with lemon curd and cream cheese as the main players.
The results were phenomenal. One day, I will post the final Lemon Cheesecake Ice Cream recipe that resulted from those experiments (because there were several, and they were all delicious). But citrus season was waning and strawberry season was picking up and I started dreaming about how DIVINE the cheesecake ice cream would be with fresh local strawberries!
We’ve all had a classic New York Cheesecake, haven’t we? The slightly tangy, plain-Jane cheesecake base (whose very plainness allows the cream cheese flavour to shine), topped with a bright, fresh and sweet strawberry topping. It is SO good. The thought of having those flavours in ice cream form, throwing me back to the Sara Lee cheesecake we occasionally had straight from the freezer as children… well, to say I was excited to start recipe testing is an understatement.
After the first testing round, I realized a couple of things:
The next two batches of strawberry cheesecake ice cream were perfection. The ice cream base tasted exactly like a delicious baked cheesecake, but in ice cream form, with lovely flavour and mouthfeel. The strawberry swirl set it off, tasting like the topping of my New York cheesecake just got mixed into every bite. It is super strawberry-y and very cheesecake-y, and tastes like a perfect way to showcase some beautiful local strawberries.
This delicious homemade ice cream tastes like a creamy tangy baked cheesecake, swirled with a delicious fruity strawberry swirl. It is super strawberry-y and very cheesecake-y, and tastes like a perfect way to showcase some beautiful local strawberries.
Jun. 28, 2021
In this recipe round up, I have gathered my best and most delicious summer salad meal recipes in one post, for days when it’s too hot to cook!
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Wow, strawberry cheesecake ice cream! I love how easy this recipe is. It is nice not to fiddle with making custard for ice cream. I love that you made notes of each trial. I will definitely have to try this to use up our strawberries in the garden.
Thanks, Cynthia! I hope you enjoy it!
This sounds amazing! I don’t eat sugar so I’d love to try it with a sugar free sweetener!
It would probably work really well with monkfruit sugar
OMG!! This was the best ice cream ever! Thank you for sharing the recipe. Local (I used Gayley) strawberries are key to this recipe. I had to stop myself from eating the whole thing! Will definitely make it again.
Thank you, Carol! I’m thrilled you love the recipe!