Homemade strawberry ice cream with sweetened condensed milk

Condensed milk is cow's milk with the water content evaporated off and is the second ingredient in my homemade ice cream. The thick and syrupy milk acts as a sweetener and softens the ice cream, allowing for easier scooping. To make your ice cream less sweet, you can use low-fat or fat-free condensed milk.

Yes. Condensed milk can be substituted in recipes that call for heavy cream. You can use a 1:1 ratio when replacing heavy cream with condensed milk. Because sweetened condensed milk has added sugar, you will need to reduce the other sugars in your recipe.

Instead, I prefer macerating tiny bits of fresh fruit in a combination of sugar and alcohol. After a few hours, the sugar drives water out of the fruit, making room for sugar and booze (you can use vodka, but I'm partial to Cointreau here), both of which lower the fruit's freezing point.