Eagle Brand Homemade Ice Cream Recipe Contest Winners!

So sorry this post took me a while to write...been a little crazy here in babyland, especially dressing our daughter Violet up as an ice cream cone (thanks, Stephanie!)...

Anyway, congrats to the two reader's choice winners for the Eagle Brand Homemade Ice Cream Recipe Contest were:

Charlene with her Coffeehouse Ice Cream

Sunshine with her Key Lime Pie Ice Cream

Congrats to the winners and thank you to everyone for playing! We think all the recipes looked yummy and can't wait to try them!

Thank you to Eagle for sponsoring the contest!

Contest Reminder..win an AWESOME Eagle Brand Prize Pack

This could be yours!!!! So what's the catch...all you have to do is make some ice cream with Eagle Brand's Sweetened Condensed Milk and tell us all about it to be entered to win 1 of 2 Eagle Brand Prize Packs by August 11th.

If you didn't catch our first post about this fun contest basically Eagle Brand was nice enough to send Bethany and I this awesome Ice Cream kit to try out and they were even nicer to be offering the same thing to you. So in the next week get yourself some Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk and take a shot at making some ice cream and you could have this all to yourself too. (Prize pack includes but could vary: insulated picnic basket, popsicle molds, Pint coozie, ice cream scoop, insulated container, Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk, hot fudge, Magic Shell topping, ice cream topping, Walmart gift card for more Sweetened condensed milk, and I hope I didn't forget anything..its great!)

Here are the guidelines...

1. Go to Eagle Brand and look over the ice cream recipes to use as inspiration. Get inspired and make up (and test) your own recipe! You can make straight up ice cream or an ice cream dessert, but it MUST use Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. It's preferred that you make this without an ice cream maker so we can appeal to the masses, but you can use your ice cream maker if you must (I did, Bethany didn't).
2. Blog about your recipe and be sure to include a picture of the finished product! Send us the link to your recipe. If you don't have a blog, send us a write up and picture and we'll get your recipe up for our readers to see.
3. Enter by Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 11:59PM EST
4. We'll have a readers vote the following week and the top two winners will win the prize pack from Eagle.
5. PLEASE NOTE: We can only ship prizes within the US due to high shipping costs and coupon restrictions! If you fill out the survey and DO win but do not live in the US, you can opt to have your prize mailed to someone in the states. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience! 

My Eagle Brand Recipe
It's simple. It's fun. And its a knock off from my awesome ice cream making co-blogger Bethany. So back in June Bethany had her amazing ice cream party and I dragged along my little girl who instantly wanted the "blue" ice cream which was Cotton Candy all the way. It was by far her favorite out of B's over 30 flavors so I figured this was a perfect excuse to try a go at it myself.

I must say making ice cream without eggs is so much easier and Eagle Brand's recipes are short and sweet so making the ice cream was a breeze. I think the longest part was the churning. Basically I mixed all the ingredients and put it in my ice cream maker. But then it churned, and churned, and churned, and churned for what seemed like forever and it still never got to a true soft serve consistency so I gave up and put it in my fun new Zak insulated container to put in the freezer. I have to wait til tomorrow to find out how it came out but I of course had a spoonful before I put it in the freezer and it was quite sweet..I think Holly is going to love it!

Fairy Floss Knock Off

(By Tina who made her daughter's favorite flavor from Bethany's famous ice cream party!)

Ingredients:

• 1- 14 oz can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk 
• 2 cups half & half
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 3 tbsp cotton candy flavoring
• food coloring to desired color (we used straight blue...few drops)

Directions: Combine all ingredients and freeze in your ice cream maker

No Ice Cream Maker? No Worries With Eagle Brand Condensed Milk...an AWESOME prize pack awaits!

We often write about making ice cream with an ice cream maker, mostly because we don't know how to do it any other way. Ok, well, there is the plastic bag method and a few others, but recently we got an email from the folks at Eagle Brand Condensed Milk with a great offer for both us and for our readers (yes, coming to that) and some great ideas for how to make ice cream without an ice cream maker! How exciting!

Honestly, I don't know why I didn't think of it, because when I used their condensed milk to make that lemonade pie, it was very ice cream-y and I didn't even need to use my ice cream maker.

So our friends over at Eagle said they wanted to send us an ice cream kit (um, ok!), try out making some ice cream with their condensed milk, ask our readers to try making some with the condensed milk, and then finally, ask our readers to submit their recipes so they too can win one of two ice cream kits.

So to start, let's keep our eye on the prize...you can win exactly what we got in the mail:

• Three cans of Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (one each of regular, low fat, and non-fat)
• An awesome insulated picnic basket
• A Zak! Designs Insulated Ice Cream Container
• An ice cream scoop
• An ice cream pint cozie
• Assorted Smuckers toppings
• Frozen pop molds
• A Walmart gift card to get the supplies you need to make more ice cream

How do you win? Make ice cream! I mean, best contest ever, right? You have to make the sweetest treat in order to win another sweet treat.

Here are the guidelines...

1. Go to Eagle Brand and look over the ice cream recipes to use as inspiration. Get inspired and make up (and test) your own recipe! You can make straight up ice cream or an ice cream dessert, but it MUST use Eagle Brand Condensed Milk. It's preferred that you make this without an ice cream maker so we can appeal to the masses, but you can use your ice cream maker if you must.
2. Blog about your recipe and be sure to include a picture of the finished product! Send us the link to your recipe. If you don't have a blog, send us a write up and picture and we'll get your recipe up for our readers to see.
3. Enter by Wednesday, August 11, 2010 at 11:59PM EST
4. We'll have a readers vote the following week and the top two winners will win the prize pack from Eagle.
5. PLEASE NOTE: We can only ship prizes within the US due to high shipping costs and coupon restrictions! If you fill out the survey and DO win but do not live in the US, you can opt to have your prize mailed to someone in the states. Thank you and sorry for the inconvenience! 

We tried it out and it is definitely pretty cool that you can make ice cream without an ice cream maker. 

Bethany's Orange Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 1 can Eagle Brand Sweetened Condensed Milk (I used the low fat, and yes, my can got a little crushed in the mail -- but it still worked just fine!)
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1/3 cup granulated sugar
• 1 can of frozen orange juice concentrate
• 1 teaspoon orange extract

Directions: 

1. Whip heavy cream and sugar until stiff peaks form
2. Mix condensed milk, orange extract, and orange juice in a separate bowl
3. Fold whipped cream into the condensed milk mixture
4. Freeze for about 5 hours

I just pulled mine out of the freezer and had a small dish (I had to sprinkle the mini chips on top because I forgot I wanted to add the chips, but it was yummy that way too). You can see it at left -- sorry the picture is so dark. 

My ice cream didn't harden as I thought it would (may have been the OJ) but it was quite like soft serve -- very creamy, and kind of like an Orange Julius. Too bad Kevin has to lay off the milk products because he LOVES Orange Julius. Definitely refreshing!