Dessert : Pumpkin Ice Cream (too easy!)

For Christmas this year we were given an ice cream maker. We didn't start using it right away, I guess we thought making ice cream would be slow. I've been really impressed with how easy it has been. I never used to like homemade ice cream. The texture would turn out... unappealing to me. I like really smooth and creamy ice cream, the stuff that is considered "specialty" and I've been obsessed with gelato since I visited Italy a few years ago and it was so easy to find there.

We've made a few different types and I never get around to taking pictures and/or writing up everything.

I thought I'd try a little experiment last night, and I've had the idea going for a little while. I always loved the frozen pudding pops as a kid. Why not get some pudding, mix it up and throw it in the ice cream maker instead of in the fridge and letting it set up. It worked quite well. I had happened upon some Pumpkin Spice flavored pudding when I was at one of the bigger grocery stores (that I don't usually visit due to distance) the other night. I grabbed two of the small packages of it thinking that if the experiment didn't work, I could still have pumpkin pudding with the second packet. I'll probably just make a second batch of ice cream.

I have no idea if you can do anything similar without an ice cream maker as I had never made homemade ice cream until we received this appliance.

Ingredients:
* 1 small box of Pumpkin Spice pudding mix
* 2 cups of milk
Directions:
Whisk all the ingredients together until well blended then pour it into the ice cream maker and let the ice cream maker blend until it's the texture you want.

I didn't want this to get too frozen since I wanted us to be able to actually eat it.

Since I just used a small box to make this, we didn't get much each. A pretty similar amount if I would have just made pudding.