For Christmas Gavin got me accessories for my Kitchenaid Stand Mixer, ice-cream maker accessories.
To save on wrapping paper I didn’t wrap it when it arrived, I just stuck a bow on the box and put it next to the tree. It sat there, tempting us, we caved. Saturday we picked up the necessary extra ingredients: more eggs, cream and half & half.
Last night we completed part one: mixing the stuff together and letting it chill for eight hours; this evening we completed part two: putting it in the freezer bowl and mixing it; tomorrow, we complete part three (or rather, we start part 3) the tasting of the final product.
Part one was messy, sauce pans don’t have little pouring spouts (neither did the mixer bowl). Part two was a little less messy, the bowl we’d chilled it in had a spout, but getting the frozen ice-cream from the freezer bowl into the Gladwear container was a bit more challenging.
Right now the consistency is like soft-serve (the stuff around the edges was more like ice-cream) and incredibly creamy. The taste is amazing, we made basic vanilla and added cookie dough chunks (from the Toll House open-and-bake cookies that Gavin bought).
Tomorrow afternoon we’ll taste the final product. I get the feeling it is going to be a while before we buy ice-cream at the store again.
Above: Gavin, with the mixer in action
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