Homemade Ice cream

I am looking for a good homemade ice cream recipe. Does anyone have one?

Colored Ice cubes

So, you can obviously do this with any holiday, just change the color.....

Fill up an ice cube tray with red and blue juice, or kool-aid, and freeze. They look really cute in a cup of sprite or water.

Watermelon Pops

Watermelon
Popsicle sticks
Star-shaped cookie cutter

Use a cookie cutter to cut juicy star shapes from 1-inch-thick slices of seedless watermelon.

Insert a Popsicle stick into each star, then set the pops on an aluminum foil-lined baking sheet.

Cover the stars with another sheet of foil and freeze for 1 hour or until firm.

Crispy Cheese Stars

You'll need 2 star-shaped cookie cutters, one slightly smaller than the other (ours measured 4 and 2 1/4 inches between opposite points).

Ingredients
Flour tortillas
Sliced cheese (cheddar, provolone, or mozzarella)
Chili powder or paprika

Heat the oven to 350º. Use the larger cookie cutter to cut out stars from flour tortillas (about 5 per 10-inch tortilla). It's easy for kids to do if you use a rolling pin to roll back and forth over the cutter. Bake the stars on a foil-covered cookie sheet for 5 minutes.

Use the smaller cookie cutter to cut out an equal number of cheese stars from the sliced cheese and place them atop the tortilla ones. Bake the stars for 2 more minutes or so until the cheese melts.

Sprinkle the stars with chili powder or paprika and let them cool before serving.

flag cake

This cake serves 20-24, so if you'd like, you can cut this recipe in half.

18 tablespoons ( 2 1/4 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temp

3 c sugar

6 extra-large eggs, at room temp

1 c sour cream, at room temp

1 1/2 t pure vanilla extract

3 c all purpose flour

1/3 c cornstarch

1 t kosher salt

1 t baking soda

For the icing

1 pound (4 sticks) unsalted butter, at room temp

1 1/2 pounds cream cheese, at room temp

1 pound confectioners' sugar, sifted

1 1/2 t pure vanilla extract

to assemble

2 half pints blueberries

3 pints raspberries

Heat the oven to 350 deg. Butter and flour an 18 x 12 x 1 1/2 in sheet pan.

Cream the butter and sugar in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on high speed, until light and fluffy. On medium speed, add the eggs, 2 at a time, then add the sour cream and vanilla. Scrape down the sides and stir until smooth.

Sift together the flour, cornstarch, salt and baking soda in a bowl. With the mixer on low speed, add the flour mixture to the butter mixture until just combined. Pour into the prepared pan. Smooth the top with a spatula. Bake in the center of the oven for 20 to 30 min. until a toothpick comes out clean. Cool to room temperature.

For the icing, combine the butter, cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, mixing just until smooth.

Spread 3/4 ths of the icing on the top of the cooled sheet cake. Outline the flag on the top of the cake with a toothpick. Fill the upper left corner with blueberries. Place 2 rows of raspberries across the top of the cake like a red stripe. Put the remaining icing in a pastry bag fitted with a star tip and pipe two rows of white stripes below the raspberries. Alternate rows of raspberries and icing until the flag is completed. Pipe stars on top of the blueberries.

This is a GREAT cake to serve at a 4th of July get together. It's always a big hit. It's too bad I don't have a picture of it, because it looks so pretty and festive!