Here’s a healthy, homemade ice cream recipe made with rose petals. It’s naturally dyed and uses natural sugars with a creamy yet dainty flavor. Perfect for tea parties and fairy celebrations. A true summer recipe!
How do You Make Homemade Ice Cream From Scratch?
The first thing you need to make homemade ice cream from scratch is an ice cream maker. We have a whole article on how to make homemade ice cream step by step – it’s not difficult, I promise!
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Briefly, other items you’ll need are:
- Some kind of “milk” (milk, coconut milk, almond milk)
- Sweetener (raw sugar, raw honey, maple syrup)
- Your favorite add-in like chocolate chips, mint oil or rose petals
What Kind of Roses Do I Use for Ice Cream?
You can use any kind or color or rose petals but we prefer our rugosa roses because they are so fragrant and lovely. Rugosa roses are particularly suited for sweets because their perfume is so strong and pleasing.
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They’re my favorite rose because they grow like weeds, are gorgeous and produce the most delicious hips that are full of Vitamin C. Add rugosa rose petals to your homemade ice cream recipe and it will be like medicine, right?!
Like I said, you can use any rose petal but smell them first to make sure you like the scent. Scent and taste are closely linked!
Homemade Ice Cream Recipe with Rose Petals
Don’t be afraid to experiment with this recipe a few times, adding things here and there as strikes your fancy. This recipe calls for making a rose petal tea (directions are in the recipe), but you can also use a homemade rose syrup.
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Rose Petal Homemade Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Rose Petal Tea*
- 3 Cups whole milk
- 1 Cup Cream
- 2/3 Cup Lactose; you can also use 1/3 Cup Organic Cane Sugar instead
- 2/3 Cup Organic Cane Sugar
- 1 tsp Organic Beef Gelatin
Instructions
- Mix all ingredients in a blender and put into ice cream
maker canister. - Follow all instructions for your ice cream maker.
Notes
of the petals and a bit of the color into your ice cream.
- Gather two cups of petals and put them into a small saucepan. Cover with 1 ¼ cup of water, place a lid on the pot and simmer over medium heat for about fifteen minutes.
- Make sure the water level stays constant and add more if you need to.
- You can either strain out the petals (which will have lost most of their color by now) or you can toss the whole caboodle into the blender.
If you have rose HIPS from roses you’ve grown yourself and need something
to do with them, try this recipe for Rosehip Tea from Simply Beyond Herbs.
Rose Petal Ice Cream Tips
You may want to reserve a few of your pinkest petals to add raw into this homemade ice cream recipe.
- Blend all the other ingredients.
- Then, add a few raw petals and pulse until they’re chopped into smaller bits.
- This is totally optional and just for looks.
The petals will give a pink tinge to the ice cream but if you want a deeper color, make a beet juice dye:
- Chop 3 Tablespoons of fresh beets
- Cover with water in a saucepan
- Bring to a boil
- Allow to cool
- Add to the ice cream while it’s mixing 1 Tbsp. at a time until desired color is reached
Additionally, I suggest you use the palest sugar you can find that isn’t table sugar, which no one on earth should ingest. Wholesome Sweeteners sells an evaporated cane sugar that’s pretty pale and I use it for this recipe so it doesn’t change the pink color of the ice cream.
I usually use maple syrup or a dark, raw sugar for my ice creams – even raw honey is yummy – but they all color the ice cream.
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I would never have thought to put rose petals in ice cream, but it sounds delicious. Thank you for sharing at the HomeAcre Hop; I hope you’ll join us again Thursday.
Is there a company that sells unpainted clean rosa rugosa hips for human consumption. thank you.
Yes! You can try Mountain Rose Herbs.
Yum! Love this recipes and the idea of using rose petals – the flavor must be wonderful. Thanks for sharing on Real Food Fridays. Will twitt & pin.
Its like eating a fairy, Marla.
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Thank you so much, Marla!
This looks serously delicious. Can’t wait for our rugosa roses to grow so I can try this.
It is quite dainty, Chris – I think you’ll enjoy it. It’s like little rose fairies flew into your ice cream dish. 🙂
Ooh, lovely! I am still in the process of creating my garden, but I have long wished for a rose or two for their petals (and their hips!), and you can bet that – when they arrive – I’m going to be making this ice cream! Thanks for sharing 🙂
So glad it was useful! I can certainly recommend rugosas, when you’re ready for roses. Low maintenance and gorgeous hips! (May the same be said of all of us. ;))
Your email mentions a podcast – do you have one? Sounds like fun to listen to – I’d be happy to share with my social media folks!
What a unique idea! Thank you for sharing such a lovely recipe. I love making homemade ice cream.
You bet – thanks for stopping by! We love to experiment with homemade ice creams, especially in the summer.
I feel like my daughters would just love this. Thank you for the idea!
It’s perfect for fairy tea parties!
I would never have thought to use rose petals in ice cream! Just ordered some and can’t wait to give this a try!
Oh, I hope you love it, Cery! It’s so delicate and sweet – like fairy ice cream.
I wonder if I can add goat milk? I am currently drowning in goats milk
Yes! Just adjust sweetener as you need it.
You can also make feta, which is my favorite thing to do with extra goat milk!
This recipe calls for lactose or more sugar? Could you explain this?
I have never seen a recipe with lactose as an ingredient…
Great question, Carol!
Lactose provides a smooth texture and isn’t quite as sweet as plain sugar. As you say, it’s not something you usually have sitting on your shelf, so you can replace it with 1/3 cup of sugar for a total of 1 cup of sugar for the whole recipe.
You can also use alternative sugars when making ice cream – xylitol, monk fruit sugar, stevia, etc. The amount you use varies, FYI.