Strawberry Ripple Ice Cream

Name: Strawberry Ripple Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 12 (Makes about 1½ quarts
Ingredients: ½ cup plus ⅓ cup, nonfat dry milk powder; 1/3 cup (2 1/3 ounces; 66 grams), sugar; ¼ teaspoon, kosher salt; 1¼ cups plus ¼ cup, whole milk, divided; 1½ cups, heavy cream; ¼ cup, corn syrup; 1 tablespoon plus 2 teaspoons, cornstarch; 6 ounces (170 grams) fresh, strawberries, hulled; ½ cup plus 1 tablespoon (4 ounces; 113 grams), sugar; 1 cup (½ ounce; 14 grams), freeze-dried strawberries

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Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2020

Desserts or Baked Goods

Frozen Desserts

Freeze-dried strawberries yield an intensely flavored ripple.

SERVES12 (Makes about 1½ quarts

WHY THIS RECIPE WORKS

The inspiration for this ice cream is the classic dessert of fresh strawberries and cream. To pull that off, we needed fresh strawberry flavor. But fresh strawberries contain a lot of water, which turns to coarse ice crystals in the freezer...

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