Sugar - Ice Cream Key Ingredient

Sugar is used in ice cream recipes primarily as a sweetener but is also plays an important role in producing the right texture of ice cream. This is because sugar actually lowers the freezing point so logically, the more sugar you use the softer the ice cream will be.

The best sugar to use to make homemade ice cream is pure cane sugar as this affects the taste and texture least. Other sugars can work well in terms of flavor and in fact I prefer to make vanilla ice cream with caster sugar as I find the taste and softer texture more palatable.

You can also use brown sugar (my crunchy pecan nut and maple syrup ice cream recipe positively demands it!) and there’s also honey or maple syrup you can try. I do not use artificial sweeteners in any ice cream making.

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