Insta-food: Homemade Ice Cream

                   

Cookies and cream has to be one of my very favorite ice cream flavors. Rivaled only by mint chocolate chip...or cookie dough..OK I just really love ice cream. Being able to create your own perfect flavors with all you own preferences is reason enough to purchase your own ice cream maker! (Like you needed a reason)

I decided to test my new Kitchen Aid ice cream maker attachment out on Nutella ice cream (heavily adapted from this Food Network recipe) with loads of Oreo cookie chunks. 

This recipe was creamy, rich, and the husband was couldn't keep his spoon out of the carton. That's a success in my book. 

Nutella and Cookie Ice Cream

2 cups heavy cream 

1 cup milk (any kind, I used 2%)

1/2 cup sugar 

4 egg yolks 

1/2 cup Nutella 

Oreo cookies, roughly chopped (not crushed)

1. In a saucepan, warm your milk, heavy cream, and 1/4 cup of your sugar over medium heat and cook until sugar dissolves. 

2. While you cream and milk concoction is warming, whip you egg yolks in a mixing bowl with the remaining 1/4 cup of sugar until the eggs become thick and pale yellow. Pour 1/2 cup of the warm milk mixture into the egg mixture and combine. 

3. Add this mixture back into the saucepan. Cook over low heat stirring constantly until the mixture becomes thick enough to coat the back of a wooden spoon (it took mine about 10 minutes).

4. Stir in the Nutella and whisk until it dissolves. Place mixture in the fridge and chill completely (I recommend overnight).

5. After the mixture has chilled, pour it into you ice cream maker and follow the manufacturers instructions. Once it is the consistency of soft serve, (about 15-20 min in the frozen Kitchen Aid attachment) stir in you Oreo bits. 

Store in an airtight container and freeze until firm.

Enjoy!

Don't like it so rich? I would suggest switching the proportions of milk and cream, using only 2 egg yolks, and scraping the cream filling out of your Oreo cookies before chopping. 

You can also use honey as your sweetener but it does not store well, so plan on eating it all straight out of the mixer!

What flavor of ice cream would you want to experiment with?