Leftover Cream: No-Churn Peanut Butter Honey Banana Chocolate Ice Cream

Does anyone else regularly have half a container left of cream after using cream in a recipe?

I realised when contemplating this post, why I do - when a recipe calls for one cup of whipped cream, I naturally buy 250ml of unwhipped cream. It doubles in size.

That seems so obvious. Maybe subconsciously I always want leftover cream. So I ignore reason that whipping cream makes cream BIGGER.

Anyway, leftover cream.

Make ice cream.

This is less a recipe post, and more of a How-To-Throw-Together-A-No-Churn-Ice Cream, using whatever else you've got leftover or lying around. So here's the basics, and I'll note some combinations of ingredients I like at the end.

Leftover Cream: No-Churn Ice Cream Basic Recipe

What you need:

Leftover cream (the whip-able kind), or a whole new tub, obviously

Whatever ingredients your heart desires

In whatever quantities your heart desires

How to whip it all together:

Whip the cream. Add other ingredients. Pour into a container and freeze, for a few hours to overnight (depending on how much cream you are going for).

Hint:

The only hint I think is worth noting, is that icing sugar when added in copious amounts (think 250ml cream to 100g icing sugar), is like magic to your ice cream. Velvet-y, sherbet-y magic.

The truth: 

I say you don't need icing sugar, but really, that's because I am in Japan and icing sugar is not easy to come by. Realistically, if I was writing this in any other country, I would write: Leftover Cream and Icing Sugar. But then again, straight up cream is healthier, and welcome to My Life Just Got Healthier Overnight Since Coming To Japan.

Ingredient ideas and combinations:

I literally pick my ingredients by going to the fridge and freezer, the spice cupboard (not this time, but there were some excellent future candidates like salt, pepper, chilli powder, cinnamon, cardamon, basil (?!), then the pantry (hello, always-jar of peanut butter, honey and some miraculously uneaten chocolate). 

Peanut Butter, Honey, Butter, Banana, Chocolate

Coconut Cream, Icing Sugar, Frozen Raspberries

Salted Butterscotch (that brown sugar, butter and cream melted goodness, with some salt, and maybe popcorn?!)

Christmas Pudding (I dont actually like Christmas pudding, but bashed into ice cream with some brownie, glacé cherries and pistachios? Yeah, alright then.)

Vanilla and Cocoa (seriously, this is my go-to, as I always have some vanilla essence and cocoa powder lying around. It's like eating chocolate ice cream the way it is supposed to be.)