No Churn Bitter Orange Ice Cream in the Us

Our answer

Like all of Nigella's no-churn ice creams, the Bitter Orange Ice Cream (from Nigella Bites and on the Nigella website) is made from a base of sweetened whipped cream. And we are very glad that you like it so much that you would like to make it on a different continent.

In the US the types of cream sold are heavy cream, heavy whipping cream, whipping cream, and sometimes light whipping cream and light cream. In our experience heavy cream and whipping cream are the most common. Heavy cream and heavy whipping cream are very similar and have almost the same fat content of around 36% - you should be able to find out the fat content from the nutritional information panel on the packaging. We would suggest looking for heavy cream or heavy whipping cream to use in the ice cream, lower fat creams will produce a less rich ice cream, also tend to have added thickeners and are more difficult to whip with other ingredients. Regular pasteurized cream will whip more easily than ultra-pasteurized. Whip the cream to soft peaks first, then whisk in the sugar followed by the zest and juice and freeze this mixture, following the recipe instructions.