A serving of ice cream is 1/2 cup. It's okay to have the good ice cream at 1/2 cup per serving every now and then. I use homemade vanilla, heavy cream, full fat milk, pure cane sugar and a dash of salt. I whip it in the blender then put in countertop ice cream maker. One quart of perfect ice cream to put in freezer. Once you taste the real stuff a 1/2 cup is more then enough. My grands get 1/4 cup usually in a mini cone so it looks like more to them. They rarely eat it all at that.