Soft scoop ice cream

[PurpleParis]

Does anyone know how I can make my ice cream, soft scoop??? I have just bought a Kitchen Aid which came with an ice cream maker, I've made two already, a chocolate one and a strawberry one, which were both beautiful but they went VERY hard in the freezer...any ideas of what I can add to make it softer???? Thanks in advance!

[Arti]

The more water in it, the less-soft it will be. Try make it creamier.

[Buenchico]

The post from Venus, here, might be of interest to you:
http://www.jamieolive...iewtopic.php?id=30669

Chris

[PurpleParis]

I don't put any water into it.....the first chocolate one was made like a proper custard and then churned and frozen but the strawberry one was a James Martin recipe, which was just bascally double cream sugar and pureed strawberries, churned and frozen. It's a bowl you put in the freezer overnight and then churn the ice cream in it.

[Arti]

Talking of ice cream, does anyone (of a certain age) remember Pendleton's ice cream on a stick? It was half-strawberry and half vanilla and was absolutely delicious.

[Buenchico]

For Arti (with aplogies to PP):
http://www.flickr.com...os/trambo/3437760664/

[BAKERS DOZEN]

Arti - there's nothing nicer than a Pendleton's Twicer

[Arti]

Lol, Buen, thanks for that. It wasn't that one that I remember, though. The one I'm on about was just ice cream. The dividing line between the two flavours was vertical, down the middle.

[chris1957au]

Most home made ice is hard because it contains less air than comercialy made icecream, they pump up the volume buy adding air during the freeing process by high speed whisking and injection which a home machine carn't match, If you have ever left a 2 ltr contanier of ice out you will see the sugar liquid in the bottom and like a froth on the top. That the air you have paid for.

Allow you ice to stand in the fridge for a while befor servinf so the temprature comes up to about -4 to 5 that should help, if you leave it out of the frige the out side will melt and the middle wil still be hard