So, a few posts back I mentioned that I was going to try to make pumpkin ice cream with coconut milk instead of cream.  What an adventure that was!

First off, I grabbed a can of pumpkin pie filling from the store.  You know, the one that has everything but eggs & evaporated milk in it?

And then I had 2 cans of coconut milk.  So I blended them together (it was very thick — that should have been my first warning sign) and put it in the ice cream maker.

I ended up with this:

It wasn’t bad.  It wasn’t very sweet or creamy like the chocolate coconut ice cream I made before.  And because I used a 30oz can of pumpkin pie filling and 26oz of coconut milk the consistency was off.  It was so thick my blender gave up on it after a few minutes.  Not good.  I guess next time (if there is one with this recipe) I’ll use more coconut milk than pie filling.

I think a better idea for coconut & pumpkin ice cream is to use pumpkin pie spice and coconut milk.  I would say 2 cans of coconut milk, 1 cup of sugar, and some pumpkin pie spice would make something tasty.

Ice cream making isn’t an adventure if you don’t get lost at least a few times along the way!

Now I’ve got to figure out how to eat all this pumpkin pie coconut ice cream in my freezer. *sigh*

{31 Oct 2008} {Tags: , }