Best Lemon Buttermilk Ice Cream Recipes

BUTTERMILK CAKE WITH LEMON-AND THYME-GLAZED PEAR COMPOTE AND GREEK YOGURT ICE CREAM

Steps:

• For pear compote:
• Combine 3/4 cup sugar, 1/2 cup water, lemon juice, 3/4 teaspoon lemon peel, and 3/4 teaspoon thyme in medium saucepan. Stir over medium heat until sugar dissolves and mixture boils. Remove saucepan from heat; cover. Let steep 10 minutes. Pour syrup through fine strainer set over bowl. Return syrup to saucepan. Add 3/4 teaspoon lemon peel and 3/4 teaspoon thyme and bring to simmer. Add pear cubes and simmer over medium heat until pears are tender but still hold shape, about 10 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer pear to rimmed baking sheet. Boil syrup in saucepan until reduced to 1/3 cup, about 5 minutes. Transfer reduced syrup to blender. Add 1/3 cup pear pieces; puree until smooth. Transfer pear puree to medium bowl. Add remaining pear pieces to puree. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Cover and chill.
• For cake:
• Preheat oven to 325°F. Butter 8-inch-diameter cake pan with 2-inch-high sides. Line bottom of pan with parchment paper; butter parchment. Whisk 1 cup plus 2 tablespoons flour, 11/2 teaspoons baking powder, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in medium bowl to blend. Using electric mixer, beat 3/4 cup sugar and 1/4 cup butter in large bowl until well blended. Add egg and egg yolk and beat until blended. Add flour mixture in 2 additions alternately with buttermilk in 1 addition. Beat in 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, then fold in 2 tablespoons crème fra&ircirc;che. Transfer batter to prepared cake pan; smooth top.
• Bake cake until golden around edges and tester inserted into center comes out with some moist crumbs attached, about 45 minutes. Remove from oven and cool cake in pan on rack 15 minutes. Maintain oven temperature.
• Invert cake onto tart pan bottom or flat platter. Peel off parchment paper. Butter same cake pan and line bottom with clean parchment paper. Spread pear compote evenly over parchment paper in pan. Carefully return cake to pan, placing bottom side down atop compote. Return to oven and bake until cake is golden and tester inserted into center comes out clean, about 15 minutes. Cool cake in pan 5 minutes. Invert cake onto platter; remove pan. Cool cake at least 20 minutes.
• Cut cake into wedges. Serve warm with Greek Yogurt Ice Cream alongside.

LEMON-BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small saucepan, combine lemon juice and 1/4 cup of sugar. Place over medium-low heat, and stir until dissolved. Remove from heat, and allow to cool.
• In a medium, heavy-bottomed saucepan, combine the milk, buttermilk, heavy cream, and 1/4 cup of sugar. Place over medium-low heat until steam rises from the surface. Remove from heat.
• In a medium mixing bowl, combine egg yolks with remaining 1/4 cup sugar. Whisk to blend. While continuing to whisk yolks, slowly drizzle about a cup of the hot milk mixture into them, to gradually warm them. Add yolk mixture to saucepan. Return saucepan to medium-low heat, and stir with a wooden spoon until mixture has thickened enough to coat the back of the spoon.
• Strain mixture into a bowl, and place in a bowl of ice water to cool. Add lemon syrup and stir well. Freeze in an ice cream maker, according to the manufacturer's instructions.

INDIVIDUAL BERRY COBBLERS WITH LEMON BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Make pastry stars:
• On a lightly floured surface with a lightly floured rolling pin roll out each puff pastry sheet into a 14- by 13-inch-rectangle. With 1 or more star-shaped cutters cut out 24 pastry stars. Divide pastry stars between 2 baking sheets, arranging in one layer, and freeze 5 minutes.
• Remove baking sheets from freezer. Brush top of each pastry star lightly with some egg wash (be careful not to drip down edges of pastry) and bake in middle and lower thirds of oven about 5 minutes. Alternate baking sheets and bake 5 to 10 minutes more, or until pastry stars are puffed and golden brown. Transfer pastry stars to a rack and cool completely. Pastry stars may be made 2 days ahead and kept in a sealed plastic bag at room temperature. Makes 24 stars.
• Make berry mixture:
• In a large bowl whisk together water, lemon juice, and cornstarch until combined well. Add berries and sugar, tossing gently to combine well. Divide berry mixture evenly among eight 1 1/2-cup shallow ramekins or baking dishes and put in 2 shallow baking pans. Bake berries in middle and lower thirds of oven 25 minutes and cool slightly.
• To assemble cobblers:
• Top each serving decoratively with pastry stars and a scoop of ice cream. Serve cobblers hot or warm.
• Make Lemon Buttermilk Ice Cream:
• In a small heavy saucepan whisk together yolks, lemon juice, and sugar and cook over moderate heat, whisking constantly, about 15 minutes, or until a candy thermometer registers 175°F. (do not boil). Strain mixture through a sieve into a bowl and cool, surface covered with plastic wrap.
• Whisk buttermilk and zest into cooled lemon curd until combined well and freeze in an ice-cream maker. Makes about 4 cups.

LEMON BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Place sugar in a medium-size bowl.
• Grate the zest (colored part of the peel) of two to three lemons to produce 2 teaspoons of zest.
• Juice as many lemons as needed to get 1/2 cup lemon juice.
• Add zest and juice to sugar.
• Mix well.
• Add buttermilk and salt.
• Stir until sugar dissolves.
• Chill 4 hours or overnight.
• Freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.

LEMON BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Put the sugar in a medium size bowl. Grate the zest of 2 or 3 lemons so that you have 2 tablespoons of grated zest. Juice as many lemons as needed to get 1/2 cup lemon juice. Add the zest and juice to the sugar in the bowl and mix well. Add the buttermilk and 1/8 teaspoon salt. Stir until the sugar has dissolved. Chill 4 hours or overnight. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.

LEMON BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• combine sugar and lemon in a large bowl, stirring until sugar is dissolved.
• add remaining ingredients.
• pour into the freezer container of your ice cream maker, and follow manufacturer's directions.
• when done spoon into a freezer safe container and freeze 1 hour until firm.

LEMON BUTTERMILK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small heavy saucepan whisk together the yolks, lemon juice, and sugar.
• Cook over moderate heat, whisking constantly, until a candy thermometer registers 175°F, about 15 minutes, (don't boil).
• Strain mixture through a sieve into a bowl and cool, surface covered with plastic wrap.
• Whisk buttermilk and zest into cooled lemon curd until combined well.
• Freeze in an ice cream maker.