Rasseru said

Tea Ice Cream? Anyone made any ?

Silver needle? honey orchid oolong? shou puerh ? Tie Guan yin??

Anyone attempted making ice cream out of decent tea?

I’m just about to buy a cheap maker and start giving this a go

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It was my goal over the summer to get an ice cream maker to experiment with things other than just Matcha ice cream, never did get around to it so my goal will be rolling over to this summer!

I do love me some icecream…and just thought how yummy Jin Xuan pistachio could be

Rasseru said

Ive just bought one, i’m going to do a ton of small batches asap. Jin Xuan pistachio sounds amazing

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My late partner and I made this kulfi years ago and we flavored it with black tea and chai spices. We just used a small ice cream maker that goes in the freezer. I recall this being marvelous.

http://www.food.com/recipe/kulfi-indian-ice-cream-with-nuts-284802

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Dr Jim said

I made matcha Ice cream with my grand-kids a couple of weeks ago. The recipe said to put vanilla ice cream in the refrigerator for 1 hour to soften, then stir in the matcha and put the bowl back in the freezer. I used caramel flavored matcha and they loved it.

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Rosali Tea said

Yes! We actually made some quite recently with Smitten Ice Cream. (Smitten is in the SF Bay Area and they invented a machine that will flash-freeze cream and sugar with liquid nitrogen to make the smoothest, creamiest ice cream ever.) It turned out amazingly, and it looked like this: https://www.instagram.com/p/BCS_-9vwsit/?taken-by=rosalitea

We’ve never tried making ice cream on our own but after the success of this project we think we’ll have to give it a try. :)

Oh gosh, that looks divine.

Rasseru said

yeah that looks lovely

Rosali Tea said

It was probably the best day of our lives. You really could throw any tea into their ice cream maker and like it. The good news is that Smitten always has Earl Grey on their rotating menu so you can usually find something with tea in it. And thank goodness for that!

Dustin said

There is a place in Austin that has nitro made ice cream. It’s good, but I’m a bit turned off by the price, the length of time it took to make my order of three cups (15 minutes) and don’t think they will be around long with that combo. It is a really neat idea, but not executed well here.

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LuckyMe said

Never made tea ice cream, but I do like affogato with tea. Matcha with vanilla or mint ice cream is delicious.

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I’ve never tried it and as much as I love matcha ice cream, I would love to try some other flavors!

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Nicole said

I’ve made some with Harney & Sons Boston blend many years ago. Worked out really tasty! It was just a standard vanilla ice cream recipe for one of the little tabletop ice cream makers but I infused the cream with tea.

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Teasenz said

Never tried any other tea ice cream than one made from matcha. I think one made of dark oolong could take great. Anyone tried? Or wanna try to make one? :)

Rasseru said

this is what im going to be trying!

Teasenz said

Cool, let me know if it’s good. A think you should let it steep pretty long to extract more flavor out of it, and to give the ice cream a nice color.

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pmunney said

Never tried making tea ice cream (although I made a lot of ice cream while working on my degree at PSU). I have eaten a lot of tea ice cream though and will say that roasted oolong and shou puerh ice creams work surprisingly well!

Rasseru said

That is music to my ears, I know that they will work well together, not sure how aroma works with cold tea but I will give it a good go

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Skysamurai said

There are some tea Popsicles at our natural foods store… I just can’t get myself to pay 6 bucks for only 4 of them….

Psyck said

Probably better to make iced tea at home & freeze it :)

Rasseru said

tea sorbet?

Psyck said

I’m more familiar with sharbats than sorbets, but yeah, I guess those concoctions could do with some black tea and honey.

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