Custard style ice cream starts with a cooked base enriched with egg yolks sugar and cream this style of ice cream has the smoothest creamiest richest texture and flavor philadelphia style ice cream contains no eggs eliminating the need to cook a base the texture is lighter and more delicate than custard style ice cream. Pour 2 1 2 cups of milk 1 1 2 cups of cream 3 4 cup of sugar and 1 4 cup of light corn syrup into a 4 quart saucepan at this point youll add any spices or flavorings for example for vanilla ice . The cream milk sugar fat present in the cream and milk also contribute to the smooth luscious consistency of your final product youll want to combine 2 cups heavy cream 1 cup whole milk and 1 2 cup sugar in a medium saucepan and bring it to a low simmer just enough for the sugar to completely dissolve. An amazing creamy recipe that uses one of earths great ingredients strawberries to bring out the best in your ice cream use fresh ripe strawberries dripping with juice and packed with flavour you can add big chunks but i recommend blending your strawberries into a pulp. Just leave it out and substitute a different flavor you can use any juice such as orange juice to make an orange sherbet like ice cream or make strawberry ice cream by adding frozen strawberries to the mixture other flavored extracts could be used such as banana or chocolate extract