Dessert : Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

All of my posts lately make me look like all we're doing is eating dessert. That's not the case of course. We just do a lot of repeats in terms of meals in my house.

I love having an ice cream maker but it's hard to be spontaneous in terms of using it. Fresh cream is just not something I keep in my house. Sometimes I worry that the ice cream maker is yet another appliance whose sole purpose is to serve as a space filler in my frightfully non-existent cabinet space.

Luckily our last trip to the store sparked the idea to make cookies and cream ice cream so we remembered to buy fresh cream while we were there. Our store carries Picket Fence Creamery products so whenever we make ice cream we use that. It's a little organic farm about 20 minutes from us. We go there often to pick up other things as well. We really love organic products but sometimes those things get expensive. Picket Fence is usually very reasonably priced since it's local and not widely distributed. If you live near a creamery, I definitely advocate checking it out for fresh dairy!

When we were making this last night I didn't pay enough attention to how long the ice cream was in the mixer. I'm not sure if this recipe is from somewhere but the measurements stuck out in my head before I actually wrote them down. Admittedly, the plain ice cream was a bit bland before we put in the cookie bits, but I think with adding cookie bits you wouldn't want an over powering ice cream base. Once we added the cookies it was definitely the perfect sweetness and no worry about being over powering.

Ingredients:
* 1 1/2 cup cream
* 1 1/2 cup milk (we had 1%)
* 1/2 cup sugar
* 1 teaspoon vanilla
* crushed oreos

Directions:
Ice using an ice cream maker, your bowl should be completely frozen. Crush your oreos (or whatever cookies) before you start any of this. Then place them in the freezer while you make the actual ice cream. Mix together all of the other ingredients with a whisk until well combined. Get your ice cream maker all set up complete with the frozen bowl and then add the liquid mixture. Follow the directions on your ice cream maker for how long you should mix. Once it is basically done you'll want to add the oreo pieces. We probably should have done this a bit sooner when the mixture was softer, but it still worked. We mixed until the color of the ice cream was an even color throughout. We also gave it a few turns with a spatula and turned it into a bowl so that it would stop freezing.

Cookies and cream is my favorite type of ice cream and this turned out tasting so good.