Cara Cara Orange Ice Cream

/ Ice Cream / January 28, 2026
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Orange ice cream is a wonderful summertime delight. Any oranges can be used, but Cara Cara oranges, available in most grocery stores, give an especially mellow, not too tangy and not too sweet flavor.

Cara Cara Orange Ice Cream

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Servings: 4 cups
Ingredients Instructions

Ingredients
  

Orange Flavor
  • Juice of 3 whole fresh Cara Cara oranges (= 354 g)
  • ¼ cup Sugar (=48g)
  • 1/8 tsp pure orange oil
  • 1 drop Yellow food color (Optional)
  • 1 drop Red food color (Optional)
Ice Cream Base Mix
  • 1 cup Whole milk (=240 g)
  • 2 Whole pasteurized eggs (Large eggs)
  • 3/4 cup Sugar (=144 g)
  • Dash Salt
  • 2 cups Heavy whipping cream (=444 g, add later)

Instructions
 

Orange Flavor
  1. Juice the Cara Cara oranges, then strain the juice.
  2. Put all Orange Flavor ingredients in blender.
Ice Cream Base Mix
  1. Add base mix ingredients except whipping cream to the orange flavor ingredients in the blender. Blend on High for 1 minute.
  2. Add whipping cream. Blend on Medium setting for 30 seconds.
  3. Freeze in ice cream machine.

For more information see Pasteurized Eggs Instruction Sheet

Orange oil is available from Boyajian

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