Recipe: faux Cherry Garcia ice cream

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Quite a while back, throm & interactiveleaf gave me an ice cream maker they no longer had use for.

Yesterday, I finally tried it out for the first time. Here in ATX, fresh cherries are down to less than 2 bux a pound. So what better time to try and make my own version of Cherry Garcia ice cream?

Ingredients:
3/4 c. dark chocolate chips*
1 1/2 cup Bing cherries, fresh, halved and pitted (may use canned but drain syrup)
Pasteurized scrambled eggs equal to 6 large Eggs
1/2 cup honey
1/4 c. amaretto
1.5 cup heavy whipping cream
1.5 c 2% milk
6 c. half and half



Directions:

*B&J prefer Herhey's Special Dark Chocolate candy bars, shaved & chopped. I found "special dark" chips and used those instead.

1. Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, 1 to 2 minutes. Whisk in the honey, a little at a time, then continue whisking until completely blended, about 1 minute more. Add amaretto & blend. Pour in the cream and milk & half and half and whisk to blend**.

2. Transfer the mixture to the ice cream maker and freeze following the manufacturer's instructions.

3. pit and chop cherries & refrigerate. refrigerate or freeze the dark chocolate chips

4. After the ice cream stiffens & ice cream maker turns off, add the chocolate and cherries, then continue freezing until the ice cream is ready.

5. NOM.

**immersible wand-type mixer is so great for this!

Comments

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

seriously? If you're free Tonight, Wednesday, Thursday, or Friday evenings, come on over for some dessert :)

[funnygirlkawaii.livejournal.com]

I work till 8pm :(

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

Friday? We miss y'all. :)

[funnygirlkawaii.livejournal.com]

I can do that. I just dont want to come over too late. I usually don't eat dinner till till I get home to make it around 9:30-10. I'd need to eat something real befor coming over if all you have is ice cream ^_^

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

Well.....it so happens that *we* also eat dinner before dessert. So...if you wanted to come over for dinner, that would be even better. What do you like to eat? I can cook :)

[funnygirlkawaii.livejournal.com]

I would love to come over for dinner!

If I go home I'll never leave again. Michael doesn't get out till 10pm so it'll just be me.

I can't eat bananas, tree nuts or avocados. I hate ham and cucumbers. I'll try anything else. I need to work on getting veggies but I don't like them *pout*

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

Gotcha :) That seems easy enough to work with. Yay! I'm excited about Friday!!

[funnygirlkawaii.livejournal.com]

For whatever reason, LJ isn't sending me msg notices

Anyways, Can you send me an email with directions to your place? harmoni1981 at hotmail dot com

Looking forward to it

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

(of course I totally understand if you need some time to unwind after work before going out to be social. Either way is cool. I'm not trying to pressure you :)