Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Dec 18, 2007 at 5:41 AM
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My birthday ice cream was homemade. And perfect.

Ingredients:
2 tablespoons Peppermint Schnapps
2 teaspoons vanilla
2 cups milk
1 3/4 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups half and half
4 cups cream
2 cups minced chocolate

    Heat pan and cook down Schnapps and Vanilla until they are slightly thickened (not long). Pour in milk, whisking quickly. When bubbles form on the sides of the pan and the milk is steaming slightly, turn off the burner. Whisk in sugar.
    Add salt, half & half and cream.
    Stir thoroughly.
    Pour into ice cream maker. (We use the old fashioned salt and ice variety.)
    When the mixing is nearly done, add in the chocolate.

    You can put the whole mixture in the freezer to set, but we were impatient and didn't. This would also rock with homemade chocolate sauce, which is:
    1 tablespoon butter
    1/4 cup cream
    1 bar baker's chocolate (whichever you prefer)
    1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
    1 pinch chili powder

    Heat butter and cream until slightly bubbly, pour in chocolate and remove from heat. Stir until smooth. Sprinkle with nutmeg and chili powder, and enjoy!

    Trust me. The enjoying part is EASY.

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HAPPY BIRFDAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I love mint chocolate chip ice cream - that and peppermint stick are my faves.

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Truly, the interweb will not be perfected until you can scan a bowl of that divine substance and PM it to me. Some idiot at work brought in some sort of spattergroit or exploding mung or flu. I've been sick for two days, and my throat is sore. Some of that ice cream would be just perfect!

I also like the pink peppermint ice cream with the little red and green candy bits in it. Still, my all-time fave is my parents homemade peach--it helps when they bring the peaches back from a Georgia farmer's market. Jummmm!

Happy Birthday!!!!!

Oh, I'll have to try this soon. I find it odd that there seems to be no peppermint stick ice cream around this region at Christmas, and so I sometimes make it on that day. So I'll use this recipe only put in my crushed peppermint pieces instead of the chocolate. :-)

Only I'm wondering why you use milk and half & half instead of just half & half?

shush now replied to emily sears’ comment:
Dec 18, 2007
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It's what the recipe called for- although I personally think that one cup of milk and one of cream would be fine instead. My husband really likes the recipe, though. so I follow it for him. :)

emily sears replied to shush now’s comment:
Dec 18, 2007
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I have a mind to use all half & half and then the cream, actually, and it's most economical to buy those in quarts at Costco, but that's sort of what I was thinking, that if you mix whole milk with cream, you kind of have half & half there. :-)

I don't quite know how I missed your birthday, other than yesterday left me little time for Vox-visiting. I hope you have a wonderful new year.