Alice Shields is Senior Cookery Writer for Good Housekeeping. A trained pastry chef, you’ll find her food styling on photo shoots, developing delicious recipes and writing about all things food. She loves to bake and her favourite pudding will always be a chocolate fondant. Originally hailing from Lancashire, she finally achieved her goal of getting a butter pie recipe into the magazine.
This easy no-churn ice cream recipe has a secret storecupboard ingredient that guarantees creamy, smooth scooping
No ice cream machine required 🍦

Adding milk powder to your no-churn ice cream might seem a little strange, but it helps to bind the water and fat, which prevents ice crystals forming, thus giving you a lovely smooth scoop. We’ve gone for a simple vanilla flavour here, but you can easily pimp up it up, check out our tips below.
Ingredients
- 2 Tbsp.
skimmed milk powder/dried skimmed milk
- 250 ml
double cream
- 125 ml
condensed milk
- 1 Tbsp.
vanilla bean paste
Directions
- Step 1Whisk together all the ingredients in a large bowl using a handheld electric whisk until soft peaks.
- Step 2Scrape into a freezer-safe container, cover and freeze for at least 6hr (up to 1 week) until frozen solid.
For a more complex flavour, try toasting your milk powder in a dry frying pan over low heat. Leave to cool completely before using.
For a little twist you could ripple through a couple of tbsp of lemon curd, or your favourite jam, before freezing.
If you like this recipe, check out our red velvet cream cheese ice cream.


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