Lately, I have been on a sorbet kick. I made lemon, sugar free lemon, watermelon and Valencia Orange Sorbet.
About a week ago Lynn and I went to Ritas, an Italian ice and custard shop. Ritas is a chain that came to our area about 1.5 years ago. Their custard and Italian ice are very good and I highly recommend it.
While I was eating my Rita’s, I realized that the sorbet I make is real close in texture to the Rita’s Italian ice. That caused me to want to make my own Italian ice.
One of the Ritas menu items is a Gelati, that is frozen custard with Italian ice layered together. One of the better combinations is Root Beer Italian ice and vanilla custard. Since I already know how to make vanilla custard, I decided to attempt root beer ice to potentially go with home made vanilla custard.
I found it harder to track down an Italian ice recipe then I expected. There are many companies selling Italian ice kits, but not many recipes. The first recipe in a google search was from McCormick. I usually stay away from companies recipes, but used this one this time.
I quickly whipped together the ice. Like the sorbet, this is really simple to make. The only thing I did wrong is we ate it to early. I should have allowed it to be in the freezer longer. That is why my pictures look like brown piles of something rather than nice scoops of Italian ice.


I think this is a recipe that I will stick with. We happened to have McCormick root beer concentrate at the house. I am not sure I like the flavor of it. It seemed a bit chemically and fake. We ordered some natural concentrate and I will be using that to make my next batch. I am going to be making root beer ice and vanilla ice cream for July 4th, so I am sure you will be able to read more about this experiment in the next few days.
Homemade Root Beer Ice
Mix sugar, water and lemon juice in medium saucepan. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer 10 minutes. Stir in root beer concentrate.
Refrigerate 2 hours or until chilled.
Pour into an ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
Ingredients
Directions
Mix sugar, water and lemon juice in medium saucepan. Bring to boil. Reduce heat to low; simmer 10 minutes. Stir in root beer concentrate.
Refrigerate 2 hours or until chilled.
Pour into an ice cream maker. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions.
-Joshua
I love drinking a nice creamy root beer. The ice is inspired.
Thank you.
This looks beautifully refreshing. Perfect for summer
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This was perfect! It was exactly what I was hoping for! We ate it with homemade peach ice cream…our own gelati.