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    Default Making small batches of Maple Cream in Cuisinart Ice Cream Machine - Success!

    Hi all, this is my first post in this very interesting group. We are in Southern NB on the Canadian East Coast. We are 3 families together and ave close to 300 taps between our adjoining lots. We started 3 years ago with about 140 taps and have gone up from there.

    So, I found lots of nice builds and devices to make maple cream, but I was interested to find something for the smaller scale, such as making only 1 quart or so. After seeing several videos on youtube, I seen one in particular that looked like a larger version of what my small ice cream machine does. The Scrapers/paddles stay put and the bowl itself does the turning.

    So yesterday I tough I would pull the ice cream machine bowl out of the freezer and let it thaw to room temp in a sink full of water. During that time I brought a quart of syrup to 232F and then cooled to 75F or so. Washed the mixing bowl and started it up. Poured the syrup in it and although it took 50 minutes, I was able to watch a full episode of "The Walking Dead" I ended up with nice cream and no sore arm.



    https://photos.app.goo.gl/X1EMjdwbsU4u5xbo2

    I tried searching to see if anyone else on the site was doing this already but did not see anything so I thought I'd share for the smaller batch makers out there.

    dp

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    Looks great!
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    We do ours in a kitchen aid mixer. Cool it to 50° and mix fir 15-20 minutes. We're looking to buy a cream machine, but haven't found a used one yet.
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    I'd like to try this, but don't have either appliance. Is there another method? I have a food processor and used to kneed bread in it. Would that work?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Atgreene View Post
    We do ours in a kitchen aid mixer. Cool it to 50° and mix fir 15-20 minutes. We're looking to buy a cream machine, but haven't found a used one yet.
    We also have a KitchenAid stand mixer but I was reluctant to use it for maple cream. I had read a few places where people had tried using their mixers and burned them out. But I can't remember for sure if they were using a kitchenAid or not.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dpostman View Post
    We also have a KitchenAid stand mixer but I was reluctant to use it for maple cream. I had read a few places where people had tried using their mixers and burned them out. But I can't remember for sure if they were using a kitchenAid or not.

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    I do not have a kitchen aid. When my daughter was looking for one for her baking business she found that the kitchen aid with tilting head has plastic gears. The one that the head is fixed and the bowl goes up and down has metal gears.
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    Tell us more about the ice cream machine. What make and model is it? My wife loves maple butter but she loves her kitchen aid too much to try making done with it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Big_Eddy View Post
    Tell us more about the ice cream machine. What make and model is it? My wife loves maple butter but she loves her kitchen aid too much to try making done with it.
    This is my machine. Cuisinart ICE-30. Not all that extravagant except that it does not have the rotating plastic paddles like many other consumer machines. It is the bowl itself that rotates, and scrapers in the bottom and sides do all the work but with much less force on them than rotating paddles would have to endure. I've only done it once with the Ice Cream maker, but at the end of it, it was just warm to the touch, not even hot and it did not sound like was working too hard.

    Here is a video of it in action. I have it hosted in Google Photos so I hope it works:
    https://photos.app.goo.gl/xEEaQAA0qrUQBTbR2

    Amazon US link to the same Ice Cream maker as mine. If you do get one, I HIGHLY recommend the Ben & Jerry's Ice cream recipe book to go with it. They are amazing.
    https://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-ICE...ce+cream+maker

    dp

    Just to add, Here are pic of my buddy and I bottling 8 liters of syrup this morning. That's 38 liters (10 gallons) so far this season.
    Last edited by Dpostman; 03-25-2018 at 10:40 AM.

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    That is too cool! I have the same ice cream maker... the closest I've come is making maple ice cream. We really like maple cream and buy from a VT producer that comes to our farmer's market. I've burned out my prior kitchen aid making bagels and decided didn't need to ruin a second one... I've also seen the comments of folks ruling their machines. We've also not had enough syrup that I've wanted to give some up to cream. With this technique, I bet I could try with just a pint, as I've made less than a at of ice cream at a time.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jrm View Post
    That is too cool! I have the same ice cream maker... the closest I've come is making maple ice cream. We really like maple cream and buy from a VT producer that comes to our farmer's market. I've burned out my prior kitchen aid making bagels and decided didn't need to ruin a second one... I've also seen the comments of folks ruling their machines. We've also not had enough syrup that I've wanted to give some up to cream. With this technique, I bet I could try with just a pint, as I've made less than a at of ice cream at a time.
    Best of luck! It should work out, but remember it took mine about 50 minutes. after 20 minutes I did not think it was going to work as the syrup had not even started to turn color yet. but after about 30 minutes, it started getting lighter in color, then I knew it would eventually get there. My buddy said that if I put a tablespoon of cream from a previous batch into a fresh one, it might precipitate the crystal formation faster so it might take less time... That will be my next test... If I have any cream left by then.

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