Ice Cream Drama

Ice Cream Drama.

Out of all the drama one can face I suppose ice cream drama is the best way to go.

I have homemade peach ice cream memories as a child that would rock your taste buds off. 

So I set out to make homemade ice cream.  Sounds easy right?

Nope.  Not Easy.

I scoured the internet for the perfect ice cream maker.  Of course the perfect ice cream maker would need to make the homemade process EASY, and it would need to be red.  My kitchen is red.  I don’t plan on making waves in my red kitchen.

OOOOO and I didn’t want to spend an arm and a leg on my ice cream machine because I get in cycles.  I loose interest in things very easily.  Ask the bread machine, the smoothie maker, my magic bullet, and the various other kitchen gadgets I had to have and then quickly lost interest in. 

Amazon.  I love amazon.  I buy lots and lots from amazon.  My husband would be happy if amazon banned me.  But that would make amazon sad...and poor. 

Anyway, I found quite a few ice cream makers that I loved.  Like the million dollar cuisine art one that the pioneer woman uses. Or the old timey fashion kind that I remember from my childhood.  I knew I did NOT want one that I had to churn by hand…that’s a whole lot of stupid. 

I found this pretty little pink precious ice cream maker.  It wasn’t a very expensive and it was PINK!  Um hello…how can anything pink be bad?  It isn’t red…but pink is totally awesome.  So I purchased this pink precious little thing. 

It took 3 weeks to arrive.  Three solid weeks.  Three weeks is a long time to wait on ice cream… at least the homemade kind.  Three stinking weeks.  Did I mention it took three weeks to arrive?   Well it did, and I was very bitter about it. 

When it finally came I ripped it out of the box and it was so pretty…and soooooooo not what I expected.  It came with 2 bowls that you put in the freezer for EIGHT hours.  That’s right EIGHT stinking hours. 

This is where it comes in handy to READ THE REVIEWS before you purchase something.  The pretty little pink ice cream maker only makes 2 small bowls of SOFT SERVE ice cream.  AND it doesn’t work.  It makes syrup like nonsense.  I have done everything imaginable to make it work.  It doesn’t.  It’s pretty and pink.  But it doesn’t make ice cream.  Stupid, stupid stupid. 

So now, I tuck my pink tail between my legs and go down to food city and buy an ugly old timey Rival brand ice cream maker.  It’s ugly.  It’s blue.  The box wasn’t fancy.  I had serious concerns…I still wanted the stainless steel cuisine art one that PW uses.  Against my better judgement I finally got an ugly blue old fashion looking ice cream maker…that doesn’t require me to crank it.  The only perk might I add. 

Guess what!?

The ice cream it made was heavenly.   Worked like a charm on the first try! 

So maybe my ugly blue rival ice cream maker isn’t so bad after all.  But it’s still ugly.

I winged it when it came to the recipe I used…so if you have an ice cream maker I’d seriously make this kind!  I created it and it is GOOOOOOD. 

Cookie Dough Homemade Ice Cream!

2 cups of half and half

2 cups of heavy cream

1 tblspoon of vanilla extract

3 cups of cookie dough

Moral of the story?  Don't judge an ice cream maker by the box...or color.