With lockdown and social distancing rules in place, many of us have had a lot more time at home to spend cooking and trying out new dishes and recipes.

But if you've never tried to make ice cream before because you assumed you'd never be able to make ice cream as nice as the tubs you can buy in the shop, this will change your mind.

With just four simple ingredients that you may well already have at home, you can make Nutella ice cream that tastes amazing — and you don't need an ice cream maker. I could barely believe I'd managed to make something so delicious, neither could anyone in the house. And friends who've tried the recipe thought it was amazing too.

This is also so simple it's a great thing to get your children involved with — with a bit of stirring, mixing, egg-cracking and, of course, spoon-licking at the end. I've made at least four batches since first trying it and it's worked a treat every time. And once frozen it stays creamy and scoops out really easily.

And it's easily adaptable for other flavours of ice cream. So if you don't have Nutella in the house (or don't like it) you could simply ditch the Nutella and use a teaspoon of vanilla extract. Or try peanut butter.

Before the recipe, a word of caution: this recipe does contain raw eggs. Latest NHS advice says infants, children, pregnant women and the elderly can now safely eat raw or lightly cooked hen eggs, or foods containing them, that are produced under the British Lion Code of Practice. So check for the stamp on your eggs before you use them.

These people should still avoid raw or lightly cooked eggs that are not British Lion stamped, not hen eggs (eg duck or quail eggs) or from outside the UK. People who have a severely weakened immune system and who are on a medically supervised diet prescribed by health professionals should cook all eggs thoroughly, even eggs that have the Red Lion stamp.

When eating raw or lightly cooked eggs, you should also avoid using eggs that are past their best-before dates. If you are still concerned about food poisoning, cooking eggs thoroughly is the safest option and this recipe probably won't work for you.

Nutella ice cream ingredients

Two eggs

50g sugar

240g double cream

150g Nutella

The recipe

1. Place the eggs and sugar in a bowl and whisk until you have a light-coloured and fluffy mixture.

Your sugar and eggs mix should look something like this once you've whisked for a minute or two

2. Pour your cream into a bowl and whip/whisk until stiff peaks form. This can take a few minutes and you may think nothing is happening but the cream will suddenly turn much thicker. This is  hard work if you don't have an electric whisk — but still worth it!

How your cream should look once you've whisked it vigorously for a few minutes

3. Add the Nutella to the whipped cream and mix it together

When you've mixed your Nutella and whipped cream together it will look something like this

4. Add the sugar and egg mix to the cream and Nutella mix

When all the ingredients are mixed together, it will look like this

5. That's it, you're done. Now just transfer the mixture to a sealable, freezable container and pop it in the freezer — it should be ready in a few hours.

The mixture transferred to a container ready to go in the freezer

You can add some other ingredients to your ice cream if you want to jazz it up a bit. This recipe is a slimmed down version of another recipe found here, which includes vanilla extract, cocoa powder and chopped chocolate.