Homemade ice cream for children: 20 good and quick recipes
The summer season (at least from the calendar) is around the corner, so moms let’s get ready to see chocolate dirty faces and strawberry smeared t-shirts because it’s season of… ice cream!
All children love it and now that ice cream, at least artisanal one, has also been cleared by pediatricians as a complete, healthy and nutritious food, why not learn how to do it at home?
The advantages of artisanal gelato are obvious: the ingredients can be chosen by us, so they will certainly be healthier and fresher than those of an industrial ice cream that contains various dyes and preservatives; if there are problems of allergies or intolerances we can make an ice cream with safe ingredients and suitable for the needs of each child; you save; And then it is fun to prepare it together with the children and above all a pleasure to eat it.
Children’s ice cream: how to prepare them at home
Ice cream, how and when
Ice cream is a great idea to prepare a healthy snack for children. It is generally recommended to give it only after 12 months of age starting from simple flavors such as fiordilatte and fruit flavors, and then move on to the various creams.
When the children are a little older it would be good to put pieces of fresh fruit together with ice cream. This allows you to increase the volume of ice cream, make it more satiating and get children used to eating fruit more willingly. Let’s say it’s a trick worth trying, even if, I tell you, with smart children it works little: they eat ice cream and leave the fruit 🙂.
Suitable ingredients
As for the ingredients, making ice cream at home you can choose the ingredients. Milk and cream will be those of your favorite brand, you can use fruit from your garden or taste it before buying it, you will choose chocolate according to your taste. However, it is recommended to buy top quality materials: fresh and safe
(pasteurized), chocolate yogurt with a high percentage of cocoa, vanilla preferably bourbon, fresh and ripe fruit. Where thickening is needed (like in creams) you can use flour or cornstarch (this is recommended if the ice cream must be gluten-free). Finally, it is recommended not to abound with sugar.
Homemade ice cream recipes for kids
Ice cream can be made at home in various ways. The most classic system is the one that involves the use of the ice cream maker, which allows you to obtain a creamy and creamy artisan Ice cream can be made at home in a variety of ways. . Buying an ice cream maker does not cost much (on average it starts from 40 euros upwards) and could be a good investment especially if you love ice cream and want to choose the ingredients yourself. However, you can make homemade ice cream even without an ice cream maker, using for example the Thermomix, or the (even if the result is not exactly like with the
). Ice creams are also possible to consume immediately or fruit popsicles that children like so much. To try your hand at this sweet and tasty “adventure”, I have prepared a list of recipes for making homemade ice creams that could make you comfortable.
Basic recipe
1. White base for homemade ice cream (with ice cream maker, with Thermomix and without ice cream maker)
Ice cream recipes with ice cream maker
2. fioridilatte ice cream
3. chocolate ice cream
4. Cream Ice Cream (with suggestion also without ice cream maker)
5. Hazelnut Ice Cream
6. Smurf Ice Cream
7. Stracciatella Ice Cream
Ice cream recipes without ice cream maker
Considering that the hot days haven’t arrived yet, you have plenty of time to experiment… starting now! Have fun 🙂
Kathryn Barlow is an OB/GYN doctor, which is the medical specialty that deals with the care of women's reproductive health, including pregnancy and childbirth.
Obstetricians provide care to women during pregnancy, labor, and delivery, while gynecologists focus on the health of the female reproductive system, including the ovaries, uterus, vagina, and breasts. OB/GYN doctors are trained to provide medical and surgical care for a wide range of conditions related to women's reproductive health.