YouTuber Chef Steps Video Shows How To Make Soft-serve Ice-cream At Home

Firmly lodged in our minds as part and parcel of summer, now there's no reason to not have soft serve any time you want with this recipe. Cooking website Chef Steps demonstrate the simple method which requires no fancy gadgets and only seven ingredients to make an ice-cream good enough to rival Mr Whippy. And while the base ingredients themselves are not as exotic as you would imagine, you will need to stock up on dry ice to make the dessert at home. The tutorial starts with the chef laying out the ingredients before he goes on to explain the step-by-step process to making soft-serve at home.

Could YOU feed your family for just £40 a week, He uses milk, heavy cream, sugar, salt, vanilla extract, milk powder and dry ice to make the ice-cream. Soft serve is a little different from other ice-creams in that you have to make it instantly and then serve it,' he says. He starts by placing his blender on top of the scale before pouring in milk, followed by heavy cream and sugar. Next is a slosh of vanilla extract before the final ingredient - a sachet of milk powder - is added. This is the stuff that makes it nice and smooth and velvety,' he explains.

The mixtures is blended for one minute until it becomes smooth and easy to churn. He then takes a tray which contains around two pounds of dry ice and pours it on to the surface of a cloth which has been laid out on the table. Place the ice in something you can wrap up the dry ice in,' he says, before taking a mallet to the ice to crush it, turning the chunks of ice into powder. The blocks have now been transformed into a sand-like consistency and texture. The next step is to pour the creamy blended mixture into a mixer, mixing on low. He then adds a tablespoon of dry ice, sprinkling slowly, little by little, slowly lowering the temperature of the mixture so it becomes colder and slowly starts to stiffen.

Leave the ice-cream to mix for a bit longer, gradually adding the crushed dry ice. Slowly add the dry ice while churning, a process which takes around five minutes. The ice cream should now be almost solid, with soft peaks forming on the whisk. Next carefully spoon the mixture into a piping bag, then pipe out the cream into wafer cones. The final addition is to add some colourful sprinkles to the top of the ice-cream. Chef Steps is a team of James Beard award-winning chefs, film-makers, designers, scientists, and engineers who demonstrate modern culinary concepts with beautiful visuals, showing the why's behind the how's of every recipe and technique.