It’s summer. So, it should be hot out (unless you live where we live, in which case it’s just been raining for two weeks straight). And what better way to cool down from the heat than to eat some delicious frozen desserts?

“But it’s just so hot out and I don’t want to leave my air conditioned house!” Well, you don’t have to. We cover three super simple recipes that are infinitely customizable and should help to beat the summer heat (or the summer rain if you’re us).

How to Make Ice Cream Without an Ice Cream Machine

There are multiple ways to make ice cream. Some require an ice cream machine, some don’t. And let’s face it. Who owns an ice cream machine? If you have one, fuck you. (Just kidding, we’re jealous.)

Okay, but let’s just say you don’t have an ice cream machine, because most normal people don’t have one. We recommend the two-ingredient method that only requires heavy cream and sweetened condensed milk (plus some vanilla extract and whatever flavourings you want). If you’re trying to control sugar and be healthy or something (you’re eating ice cream, it’s not supposed to be healthy) you can use the freeze and stir method with milk, sugar, and heavy cream. However, the freeze and stir method requires you to do just that — freeze and stir. This can be a time consuming process and if you’re like us, if you don’t set an alarm you’ll forget that you have to stir your ice cream. Woops.

Here are the ratios you’ll need for the simple method:

2 cups heavy cream

14 oz can sweetened condensed milk

½ tsp vanilla extract

All you have to do is whip the cream until stiff peaks form, and then slowly mix in the condensed milk, vanilla, and flavourings. We recommend using an electric hand beater for this — it makes it a lot easier. Whipping cream by hand is doable, but if you’re lazy smart like us then use an electric mixer. Use the high setting to whip your cream and the low setting to incorporate the rest of the ingredients.