Vanilla Chai Ice Cream Recipe
Enjoy your favorite afternoon tea flavor in a cold and creamy treat with this Vanilla Chai Ice Cream Recipe! Homemade ice cream is so easy to make and the flavor possibilities are endless.
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Homemade Ice Cream Recipe
Yep! Yep! More ice cream, I just can’t help myself! I eat ice cream all throughout winter.
This Vanilla Chai Ice Cream Recipe is perfect for winter. It has the cool, creamy texture and the slightly spicy chai flavor. I used my favorite tea, Bigelow Vanilla Chai. But feel free to use your preferred chai tea brand or flavor.
It is no secret that I LOVE Ice Cream! I also love ice cream scoops . . . I own enough scoops to be considered a collector.
Anyways, back to this Vanilla Chai Ice Cream Recipe. For this ice cream recipe I finally tried adding xanthan gum to create a softer more scoopable consistency. It works great! But if you do not have xanthan gum it can be easily omitted.
You must make this immediately, especially if you love chai tea!
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Vanilla Chai Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Heavy Cream
- 2 Cups Whole Milk
- 1/2 Cup Ultrafine Sugar
- 4 Chai Tea Bags
- 1 tsp Vanilla Paste or Extract
- 1/4 tsp Xanthan Gum * optional
Instructions
- In a medium saucepan over medium/low heat; whisk together the heavy cream, milk and sugar.
- Heat and whisk frequently until liquid begins to steam and is hot to the touch (but Not boiling).
- Remove from heat and add the tea bags and the vanilla to the liquid.
- Cover and allow to steep for about 1 hour.
- Gently squeeze the tea bags while removing, then discard.
- Sprinkle the xanthan gum into the liquid while whisking vigorously.
- Transfer liquid to a container and chill in the fridge until completely cold. (at least 4 hours)
- Place your desired ice cream container into the freezer.
- Churn the creamy chai mixture in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- Once the churning process is complete, transfer to the cold ice cream container.
- Cover and freeze for 2-3 hours before serving.
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My favorite ice cream flavor is cookies and cream!
I love vanilla ~ not French vanilla ~ pure vanilla bean Vanilla!
This looks like an awesome scoop! The first icecream I would scoop is Extreme Moosetracks! Thanks for such a useful giveaway 🙂
I would scoop vanilla chai ice cream because that looks so good
I don’t know why I have never thought to make vanilla chai ice cream before. I love Chai and know I would love in in a deliciously creamy ice cream. Thanks for sharing, Nicole!
Thanks Ashley! Have a lovely week 🙂
I love ice creamin any flavor.Right now we have Java Chip in the freezer, so that’s what I’d scoop. 🙂
Coffee Toffee Chocolate Chunk ice cream!
Chocolate Mint chip
I would scoop some chocolate peanut butter ice cream with this scoop
For this time of year? Egg nog!
I would scoop Chocolate Chip Mint
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Mint Chocolate Chip. It’s my favorite 🙂
Red velvet cake ice cream.
I’m simple, I like Vanilla with chocolate candy chunks thrown in.
chocolate of course!
Mint chocolate chip or butter pecan are my faves. But really, any flavor will do!
Anything chocolate!
I’d scoop vanilla bean ice cream!!
Good post. Using the tea bags to make chai ice cream seems like it would give it authentic flavors. Thanks for posting.