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Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk is a fruity and delicious alternative to ice cream that kids and grown-ups will love! All the flavour with virtually none of the fat!

Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk, the guilt free cooler! Fab Food 4 All

You’re probably scratching your head thinking Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk, what’s this?

Well, it’s a kind of cross between ice cream and sorbet.

It has a harder consistency than sorbet and is a bit flakier than ice cream but the wonderful thing about this dessert is that it’s incredibly low in fat as there is only 1.7% fat in skimmed milk (my bottle at least).

It’s also incredibly frugal as milk is so much cheaper than cream.

I had an idea to make strawberry ice cream but couldn’t bring myself to buy a large pot of cream due to both the expense and the thought of all those calories.

So when I got home I Googled “milk ice cream” and found this recipe for Simple Vanilla Ice Milk which I then set about adapting.

My whole family loved this iced dessert as it was both refreshing and delicious with the taste of fresh strawberries and vanilla.

Strawberry Huller
Ice Cream Scoop

This was also the perfect opportunity for me to try out the new gadgets that Oxo had just sent me. I used the Oxo Good Grips Strawberry Huller to prepare my strawberries and after a little practice got into the swing of punching, twisting, scooping, and pressing the button to deposit the stalk and hull.

The button was a little stiff to use but you could also just flick the hull out on most occasions. I was also sent the Oxo Good Grips Beak Ice Cream Scoop which is particularly suited to hard ice creams.

Due to its pointed beak it was so much easier to use and made light work of all the hard ice creams I tried it on including this recipe!

There is also a really useful “easy release” button so that your ice cream doesn’t stay stuck to the scoop.

This product is a real winner but don’t put it in the dishwasher like I did (it even says so on it) or it will lose its shiny look.

Looking at the pictures I realised my 9-year-old daughter made this recipe by herself, so why don’t you get your kids making some Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk this summer?

How do you make Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk?

Here’s a step-by-step guide:

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Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk is a great way to preserve a glut of strawberries.

Best of all it’s super refreshing on a hot summer’s day and has an intense strawberry flavour!

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My daughter insisted on sprinkles on her cone!

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Strawberry & Vanilla Ice Milk

A fruity and delicious alternative to ice cream that kids and grown ups will love, all the flavour with virtually none of the fat!
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Prep Time 50 minutes
Total Time 50 minutes
Servings 8
Author Camilla Hawkins

Ingredients

  • 250 g Strawberries
  • 1 tbsp Vanilla sugar
  • 100 g Castor sugar
  • 1 L Semi-skimmed Milk

Instructions

  • Hull and chop the refrigerated strawberries into tiny pieces.
  • Stir in the vanilla sugar and put in fridge.
  • Mix together the milk and sugar thoroughly in a bowl and then add the strawberries.
  • Using a jug pour the mixture into an ice cream maker until stiff (about 40 minutes).
  • Scoop the mixture into a tupperware and freeze for another 6-8 hours before serving.

Notes

To make a cherry version of this ice milk which is also great for using in an ice lolly mould, just chop up 220g frozen/fresh pitted cherries in a blender before adding to the milk. For an extra special touch dip your lollies in melted chocolate for a Black Forest Ice Milk Lolly!

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  2. Lisa Williams

    I never knew that it was this easy to make a frozen desert 🙂 Thank you I will be trying this and playing about with other things to add to

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  7. Alison P

    This looks yummy, and we grow strawbs in the summer so i’ll have to try it. I dont have an icecream maker but maybe lots of stirring whilst its freezing would work.

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  10. Farhana

    I now want all those gadgets. I love stockpiling all these kitchen gadgets and then never get round to using them 🙁

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  11. Anne Dalzell

    I know it’s a cold old day but i’ve had a real craving for ice-cream. I’ve got a brilliant magimix ice cream maker that i’ll have to get using again. I used to add a bit of custard to my vanilla ice cream and it worked a treat.

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  13. Abigail Cullen

    What a great recipe, love the strawberry gadget, very useful, and love the fact although it looks naughty it’s rather low in calories, which is an added bonus.

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  16. Alison Turner

    Brilliant I have just bought myself an ice cream maker so this is a perfect recipe for me 🙂

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  17. Heather Haigh

    I bet these would be extremely popular during the weather we have been having, And so much healthier than rubbish ice lollies.

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  34. Kirsty Fox

    That sounds delicious and we have some strawberries left over from strawberry picking, so I know what to do with them now!

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  36. lady_appaloosa

    great recipe and very versatile – I make my version with all sorts of fruits. Instead of putting it into a tupperware I put into ice lollies forms so it’s easier to eat after 🙂

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  37. Jane English

    This will do perfectly for me to use some of the strawberries up from the garden, we’ve just been away for ten days visiting the daughter over in the NE come back to hundreds ready to eat, so was looking for something to make with them.

    I’ll be busy tomorrow it seems

    And you have to have sprinkles on an ice cream cornet, its the law!

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  38. Paul Bishop

    Nice, cold and delicious for this heat wave. And it can be made so easily and most important quickly.

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  39. Clare Webb

    That looks so simple to make and yummy to eat! As soon as my kitchen is back in I’ll be having a go! Just what is needed in this weather 🙂

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  42. Ren

    Thanks for linking this up Camilla. The last Simple in Season for a while. Taking a summer break! Could do with a scoop of this. Ren x

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    • Camilla

      A pleasure Ren. That’s a shame, but I totally understand, it’s a lot of work for you. I’m going to make some more and play around with different fruits:-)

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  44. Javelin Warrior

    My grandfather couldn’t have much fat at all in his diet because of a prior heart attack so he would often make vanilla and strawberry ice cream (much like this) with just skim milk. It definitely freezes harder (especially with fruit) than traditional, but it’s still so delicious…

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  45. Jacqueline @How to be a Gourmand

    Brilliant that the skimmed milk works well with this as I would be dubious using all that cream too! A winning recipe 🙂

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    • Camilla

      Thanks Jacqueline. Yes I know you don’t like cream and I have seen recipes recently in magazines which were literally just whipped double cream with some flavour and put in a tub in the freezer, it’s just too rich!

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  46. Louisa Foti

    Looks delicious Camilla! And so low in fat and sugar and high in fruit! I really REALLY must invest in an ice cream maker one of these days. Thanks so much for entering your ice cream to the Four Seasons Food challenge, definitely a fab bbq side! Louisa

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