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Frozen Desserts

Easy Homemade Coffee Ice Cream

April 14, 2019

Easy Homemade Coffee Ice Cream is a wonderfully simple ice cream made without eggs. The perfect way to use up leftover day old coffee. Enjoy the sweet pick me up!

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What is your favorite ice cream? Mine is Cookies and Cream, but my husband loves Coffee Ice Cream. So this Easy Homemade Coffee Ice Cream is for him. As well as all of you fellow coffee ice cream lovers.

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: coffee, frozen, homemade ice cream, ice cream

Homemade Strawberry Sorbet

March 22, 2019

This mouthwatering Homemade Strawberry Sorbet is the perfect fresh strawberry treat to enjoy this summer. The touch of lemon gives it a pop of flavor to finish it off.

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Apparently, a lot of food blogs were sorta hacked yesterday and were redirecting their site visitors to porn sites. Fun times! 

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes, Strawberry Tagged With: dessert, ice cream maker, sorbet, strawberry, strawberry sorbet, summer fruit

Mexican Hot Chocolate Ice Cream

February 21, 2018

Today’s high is predicted to match a record high temp of 87 degrees.

I no longer have any concept of winter.

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: chocolate ice cream, hot chocolate, hot chocolate ice cream, ice cream, mexican hot chocolate, mexican hot chocolate ice cream

S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

August 11, 2017

S’mores Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches – The perfect summer treat for the s’mores lover and ice cream lover in all of us.

S'mores Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Sandwiches

It’s the last day of S’mores Week 2017!!!

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Filed Under: Cookies, Bars, and Candy, Frozen Desserts, Recipes, S'mores Tagged With: chocolate chip cookies, cookies, ice cream, Ice Cream Sandwiches, Marshmallow, nutella, s'mores, S'mores ice cream sandwiches, s'mores week, S'mores Week 2017

S’mores Ice Box Cake

August 10, 2016

S'mores Ice Box Cake

*yawn*

Oh, sorry, it’s just that I am so tired from staying up watching the Olympics.

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes, S'mores Tagged With: ice cream, icebox cake, s'mores

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake

June 13, 2016

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream Cake

Happy Monday!!!!

It’s our 1 year anniversary! We have been enjoying a long weekend away in Disney celebrating our anniversary. It’s been a blast. So so so much fun.

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: birthday ice cream cake, brownie, Cookies and Cream, ice cream cake, oreos, Secret Recipe Club

Chocolately S’mores Ice Cream

August 14, 2015

Chocolately S'mores Ice Cream

Did you know that the fine folks in New England eat more ice cream than anywhere else in the country?

Yep, we do!

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes, S'mores Tagged With: chocolate ice cream, ice cream, s'mores, S'mores Ice Cream

Brownie Waffle Sundae

March 25, 2015

Brownie Waffle Sundae

I really believe that we all need to give each other a break more often.

I had a rough week last week. Too busy. Too rough around the edges. Just too much.

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: breakfastnight, brownie waffle, brownie waffle sundae, dessert, gluten free waffles, ice cream, Krusteaz, Krusteaz brownies, waffle brownie, waffle dessert, waffle wednesday, waffles

Oreo Peanut Butter Lovers Ice Cream

October 2, 2012

So I’ve recently been snatching up all different kinds of flavored Oreos. Sandwich cookies are my favorite cookies. Don’t even think about getting me Snackwell’s Creme Sandwich Cookies… watch out for your fingers. Anyway, I love to play around with using Oreos in recipes so when I got my hands on some Peanut Butter Oreos I knew just what to do…

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: dessert, ice cream, love ice cream, oreos, peanut butter, peanut butter lovers, peanut butter oreos, smooth peanut butter, sugar

Honeydew Melon Sorbet

July 17, 2012

When I was growing up I would remember my dad eating melons (typically cantalope and honeydew) at night. He would cut them and throughout the week would eat the pieces slowly, one at a time, with a toothpick while watching TV. I think that has led to my love of melons, specifically honeydew melons.

 

 

Since it has a roasty, toasty summer I have been trying to keep cool all the time so that I don’t hate my favorite season. I sure would love to eat ice cream all the time but that is just not going to happen so I have been loving mixing up sorbets. My newest favorite is honeydew sorbet. Bliss on a hot, steamy night.

 

Honeydew melon sorbet lets the flavors of the honeydew melon shine through. The simple syrup just sweetens and brightens up the natural flavors. I like to add a bit of lime or lemon to mellow out that sweetness and enhance the flavors as well, similar to adding a bit of salt to a tomato. It just works! To keep with the citrus flavors, I like to garnish the melon with a bit of lemon verbena instead of mint. Dig in and cool off!

Honeydew Melon Sorbet

serves 4

Ingredients

  • 1 cup of simple syrup
  • approximately 1/2 a honeydew melon, depending on size
  • juice of 1 lime

Process

  1. Cut the honeydew into small pieces. Blend the honeydew until it a very smooth consisency. Blend the melon until you have 3 cups of puree.
  2. Add the simple syrup and juice of the lime to the3 cups of puree and blend to combine the ingredients.
  3. Chill the mixture for at least 30 minutes.
  4. Pour the honeydew puree mixture into your frozen ice cream make bowl and follow your ice cream maker’s directions to process the sorbet.

Check out my other sorbet recipes!

Raspberry Sorbet

Watermelon Sorbet

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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: frozen, frozen treat, fruit sorbet, honeydew, honeydew sorbet, lemon verbena, lime, melon, melons, simple syrup, sorbet

Peanut Butter Cup Peanut Butter Ice Cream

April 30, 2012

PEANUT BUTTER CUP PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM

post from 4/30/12, pictures updated 7/6/17

What a crazy month!

April has been crazy for us with procedures to buy our first house. It’s been very exciting and stressful… so many phone calls, emails, and things to do! Crazy!

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Well, that is exactly why I picked this recipe from A Cook’s Quest for this month’s Secret Recipe Club posting. I loved flipping through all the recipe filled pages debating over different things to make but I kept going back to doing this amazing ice cream.

When I saw the recipe for Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream I knew that I had to do it. It would be super simple but so intense.

PEANUT BUTTER CUP PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM

And that is what we needed this month considering everything going on. Sometimes a big bowl of ice cream helps melt away all the stress.

It would be the perfect sweet treat to enjoy to end the month. Plus, it would give the ice cream maker a bit of work before being packed up for a bit.

 

This is one the creamiest ice creams I ever made. The high fat content from the peanut butter and that fact that everything is mixed so thoroughly really made this so smooth and creamy.

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Plus, who can resist the combination of chocolate and peanut butter!?

I found the recipe really easy to make and would definitely make it again and again!

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Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream

Serves 8 (1/2 cup portions)

Ingredients

  • 1 1/2 Cups smooth peanut butter
  • 3/4 Cup sugar
  • 2 Cups 2% milk (alt, 1 Cup skim milk,  1 Cup whole milk)
  • 1 1/4 Cups heavy whipping cream
  • 8 ounces of mini peanut butter cups (alt, chop up regular or miniture sized cups)

Process

  1. To create the ice cream base, use a mixer to combine the peanut butter and sugar until smooth.
  2. Slowly add in the milk and mix until all the sugar is dissolved, approximately 2 full minutes. Add the heavy cream, beat until well combined and smooth.
  3. Refrigerate at least 1 hour to chill the mixture. Freeze the mini peanut butter cups.
  4. After the ice cream base as chilled, follow your ice cream makers directions to process the ice cream.
  5. When you ice cream is done, mix in the frozen peanut butter cups.
  6. Transfer to a storage container. Ensure the peanut butter cups are well mixed throughout.
  7. You can enjoy the ice cream now with a soft-serve consistency at this point.  Or you can let it chill again, for a least another hour to set up

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Check out my previous Secret Recipe Club Posts:

March: Sauteed Green Beans with Lemon and Almonds

February: Fried Pickles

December: Shrimp Sriracha Stir Fry

November: Vegetable Enchiladas

October: Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars

Check out the rest of the reveal day posts!



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Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes Tagged With: frozen dessert, ice cream, peanut butter, peanut butter cup ice cream, peanut butter cups, peanut butter ice cream, Secret Recipe Club

Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches

August 2, 2011

When I was a kid I used to walk about a half mile to get to the penny candy store. Mr. Fina had a great selection of things like sour belts, lollipops, watermelon sours, and chocolate covered gummy bears. But for just a quarter I used to get these tiny square ice cream sandwiches. Since then I have loved ice cream sandwiches, from the ones that are super soft to chipwiches. I even consider that Choco Taco a pretty decent ice cream sandwich relative.

 

Since I’ve been gluten free, I have had a hard time finding every day treats that are gluten free. I can’t just walk into a convenience store and grab an ice cream sandwich, so I decided to make mine own that I can at least have a home. Waffle ice cream sandwiches just fell into place because I have been heavily relying on them for breakfast, lunch and dinner. For a long time I could not find a gluten free bread I liked so I was using waffles I made in large batches as my bread substitute for sandwiches. So waffles are a pretty neutral flavor, even slightly sweet, so they would work well with ice cream.

 

I have been giving my ice cream maker a decent work out this summer with sorbet so I figured I would actually make some ice cream with it this time. I made a simple vanilla ice cream that I packed with vanilla beans, by using vanilla extract and homemade vanilla sugar. The waffles were simple since I used a mix since it was might convenient for something gluten free, however I highly suggest making waffles from scratch whenever possible. The overall process was really simple, but the thing to keep in mind is the time it takes for the waffles to get COLD. While I think room temperature waffles are acceptable, I think that you run less risk with ice cream melting with really cold waffles.

 

Waffle Ice Cream Sandwiches

Ingredients

For Waffles

  • use your favorite recipe or mix*

For Simple Vanilla Ice Cream (from Cuisinart)

  • 1 cup whole milk
  • ¾ cup granulated sugar
  • pinch salt
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon pure vanilla extract

Instructions

For Waffles:

Follow recipe instructions. Ladle batter into hot waffle iron, cook until waffle is a brown color. Waffle should be slightly crisp. Lay out all waffles, do not stack, allowing to cool and not get soggy from steam. Place waffles in fridge or freezer to get cold.

For Ice Cream:

In a chilled bowl, combine all ingredients using a hand mixer or whisk. Let mixture chill over night or at least one hour. Process the ice cream according to machine’s manufacturer’s instructions. Once the ice cream is formed, transfer to bowl and freeze until the consistency is thicker, but not hard to spread.

Assemble Sandwiches:

Once the waffles are cold, halve with a serrated bread knife. Spread a thick layer of ice cream over one half of waffle. Gently place other waffle portion on top to create sandwich. Immediately place into freezer. Freeze over night, or at least 2 hours, prior to serving,

Optional: 

Melt chocolate in a double boiler. Dip frozen ice cream sandwiches into chocolate, place back into freezer immediately. Freeze for 15 minutes, prior to serving.

*I used Pamela’s Baking and Pancake mix because it’s one of my favorite gluten free mixes

Filed Under: Frozen Desserts, Recipes, Waffles Tagged With: chocolate, ice cream, Ice Cream Sandwiches, waffles

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