All of my concoctions started with the same base ice cream recipe and then I just added different mix-ins.
Basic Vanilla Ice Cream
Ingredients:
4 cups heavy whipping cream
4 cups half and half
2 cups sugar
1 tablespoon vanilla
Directions:
Mix together in 4 quart ice cream canister.
Freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
Pour into freezer safe container and ripen in freezer until set.
Source: This is just a simple variation of a vanilla ice cream recipe that I had in my manual for my ice cream maker.
Nutter Butter Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe
1 family size package of Nutter Butter Cookies
Directions:
Crush Nutter Butter cookies. Freeze overnight.
Make Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe.
Pour vanilla ice cream into freezer container and gently fold in crushed Nutter Butter Cookies. Ripen in freezer until set.
Notes: I craved Nutter Butter shakes from Arctic Circle like crazy during my first pregnancy...and then they stopped offering them!
Chocolate Marshmallow Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe (reduce sugar to 1 cup, if desired, to offset the sugar in the chocolate syrup and marshmallow creme)
1-2 cups chocolate syrup (such as Hershey's), to taste
1 (13 oz) container marshmallow creme
Directions:
Pour ingredients for Basic Vanilla Ice Cream into your 4 quart ice cream canister. Add 1-2 cups of chocolate syrup, to your taste.
Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
While pouring into freezer container, layer chocolate ice cream with dollops and swirls of marshmallow creme.
Ripen in freezer until set.
Notes: After a heartbreak during my college days, one of my friends invited me over to her house to watch a funny movie and to stuff our faces with chocolate marshmallow ice cream. I had never had that flavor of ice cream before, and boy did it sure hit the spot that day.
Vanilla Marshmallow Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe (reduce sugar to 1 cup, if desired, to offset sugar in marshmallow creme)
1 (13 oz) container marshmallow creme
Directions:
Pour ingredients for Basic Vanilla Ice Cream and marshmallow creme into your 4 quart ice cream canister. Mix well.
Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
Pour into freezer container and ripen in freezer until set.
Notes: All throughout high school and college, one of my favorite shake flavors was marshmallow. People kept telling me it was boring, or that it just tasted like a sweeter vanilla, but I didn't care. I just loved that subtle marshmallow flavor in my vanilla shake.
Pink Lemonade Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe
Pink Lemonade mix (such as Country Time)
Directions:
Make Basic Vanilla Ice Cream.recipe.
Pour vanilla ice cream into freezer safe container 2-4 cups at a time. Sprinkle with pink lemonade mix. Add another 2-4 cups. Sprinkle with more pink lemonade mix. Repeat until all the ice cream is in the freezer container.
Ripen in freezer until set.
Notes: You could also add your desired amount, to taste, of pink lemonade mix to the vanilla ice cream when you put it into the ice cream canister to churn. I know this is an odd recipe/option, but when I was in high school, I used to love to sprinkle my vanilla ice cream with lemonade, pink lemonade, or Tang mix. I know it's random, but it's what I used to do, and it's odd, but it's good. I also kind of like the texture of the undissolved lemonade mix in my ice cream...but if you don't, simply mix the lemonade mix into the cream mixture before freezing it in your ice cream maker to dissolve the lemonade mix.
Raspberry Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 Basic Vanilla Ice Cream recipe
2-3 cups mashed raspberries
Directions:
Pour basic vanilla ice cream ingredients and mashed raspberries into your 4 quart ice cream canister.
Freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.
Pour into freezer container and ripen in freezer until set.
All really good. I think they are all gone now, right?
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