Recently, I was sent an Ice Cream maker from the good people at CSN Stores. Talk about quick delivery, it was here in exactly one week after my order was placed. It was a pleasure dealing with this company.
Anyway, the ice cream maker! It’s a Cuisinart automatic maker and it is so nice. You can whip up a quart of ice cream in about 1/2 an hour. No ice, no salt, no mess!!! Just mix up your base and put it in the frozen bowl of the maker, insert the churner thingy, put the lid on and hit the “on” button.
Delicious homemade ice cream in no time. Small enough to take with us when we go camping in our RV and perfect for the dog days of Summer.
My first play date with this machine came as soon as it arrived. I made a delicious Low Fat S’more Ice Cream. It was so good, I wish I had a quart of that in my freezer right now. I don’t, but I do have fresh made Strawberry Ice Cream (that I like to call Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream), and some Chocolate Flake Frozen Yogurt.
The strawberry ice cream was made up of sliced “fresh from the patch” strawberries that were mixed with a little sugar and a splash of balsamic vinegar. It was hard to resist the berries just like that but I put them into the food processor and gave them a whirl. You see, I don’t like hard frozen chunks of berries in my ice cream. They can be as hard as ice and me no likey. So I gave them a whirl and added them to my cream base. I was just going for a balsamic strawberry ice cream type of recipe but I had about 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips leftover and I just had to add them. It was a wise decision! 
I also made a Chocolate Flake Frozen Yogurt It was good but it has quite the tang to it. I believe it was the yogurt I used and I think I have to play with that recipe a bit.
The Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream recipe and the giveaway are coming up. but first, check out some of these screaming recipes!
Candied Bacon Ice Creamby David Lebovitz
Cardamom Pistachio Ice cream from Modern Comfort Foods
Mint chocolate Chip from Healthy Green Kitchen (My daughter’s favorite!)
Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream from Amanda’s Cookin’
Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean Ice Cream also from Amanda’s Cookin’
Pine Nut Brown SugarIce Cream from Cookin Canuck
Chai Ice Cream from Simply Recipes
Apricot Sorbet from Two Peas and their Pod
Leomonade Sherbert from Boys and Baking
Salted Caramel Ice Cream from What’s Gaby Cookin’
Rhubarb Lavender Swirl Ice Cream from Daniel and Dawns Culinary Adventure
And Now For The Giveaway!!!
Wouldn’t you love to have your own Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and make some of these delicious ice cream recipes? I’m going to be giving away one ice cream maker to one of my U.S. or Canadian readers! You have 3 chances to get your name in the hat.
1. Just leave me a comment which ice cream you would like to try. That’s it! Simple, huh?
2. Subscribe to my blog. The subscribe tab is at the top Just be sure to let me know. (let me know if you are already a subscriber for your extra entry)
3.Tweet, Facebook, and/or Stumble about my giveaway!
I’ll put all the entries in a hat and find someone to pick a name sometime on June 18th. All entries will be excepted until I get around to drawing a name. Good Luck!
And now…
the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe!
Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream
By Megan’s Cookin’
1 Pint strawberries, sliced
1 cup sugar (divided)
1 Tablespoon Balsamic Vinegar
1 cup heavy cream
2 cups half & half
1/2 cup mini chocolate chips
Slice strawberries and add 1/3 cup sugar and vinegar
Combine sliced strawberries, 1/3 cup sugar, and viniger. Place in a blender or food processor and processes till smooth. Set aside.
Add 2/3 cups sugar to cream and stir until disolved. Add the half & half and the strawberry purree to cream base. Pour into ice cream machine. Freeze according to manufacturers directions. Add chocolate chips in the last 5 minutes. Chill till firm if you can wait that long. I like mine soft serve!
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I am going to try the lemonade sherbert! Sounds very refreshing.
I hate chunks of frozen fruit too unless it’s been sitting out for a bit, but by then the ice cream is half melted lol Salted caramel and candied bacon ice creams sound amazing.
I already subscribed to your blog a longgg time ago. Also, I’m getting ready to retweet this now.
I’d love to try the Chocolate Covered Strawberry – YUM!
What fun you’re having with your ice cream maker! Summer has always made us think of ice cream and the flavors everyone is finding to make it with are amazing!
I made a rhubarb ice cream (have not posted it yet) so my favorite flavor in that list would be the rhubarb lavender. Will have to try it, as I have some lavender in the pantry!
No, you cant taste the viniger. It just helps bring out the strawberry flavor!
I’d prefer the Mexican Chocolate ice cream. YUM!
I would LOVE to try the salted caramel. I recently had a salted caramel truffle, and while I don’t care for salt that much, I just loved it. Perfect flavors!
I would love to try the Chai ice cream! And your strawberry ice cream looks scrumptious. A half hour to ice cream? That’s awesome!
well they say everything taste good with bacon so i would try the Candied Bacon Ice Cream
im following ur feed on yahoo u have a great blog
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I love vanilla…plain and boring but good for toppings!
Easy! Mint chocolate chip! Just home from vacation and definitely ate this more than a few days in a row!!! (Later would have to try strawberry balsamic recipe — had this at a restaurant last week in a strawberry shortcake — almost died…)
I’m very curious about the chai ice cream! Thanks for the amazing giveaway!
I’d like to try the Candied Bacon ice cream…would maybe try it with chocolate covered bacon, which I tried at a restaurant and thought it was FABULOUS!
I am already subscriber to your blog…love it and all the recipes! Thanks!
I also posted a link about the giveaway on Facebook!
I’d like to try the Chai ice cream!
Brown Sugar Vanilla sounds yummy
Yummy! I made this ice cream for dinner last night. The ice cream was creamy and loved by everyone at the table. I will definitely be adding this to my ice cream recipes.
I am more of a smooth ice cream kinda girl. I would so love to try chai since I drink chai tea all the time in the winter.
This one – Chocolate Covered Strawberry!
I’ve been a subscriber in my good ol’ Google Reader for a long time
that is totally the thing I’ve been wanting!!! mmmm homemade ice cream!!!
I would like to try all of them,but probably the apricot sherbet is what I would pick!
looks awesome I love sweets:)
I would love to try the Chocolate covered strawberry ice cream you have above!
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I have a 3000 square foot garden here in Rogue River Oregon and would
love to try the Rhubarb and Lavender Swirl since I am growing both! O My!
Better late than never, and hoping you haven’t drawn a name Megan. This is a fab giveaway, and I love how busy it’s kept you! WOW!!
I would love to try the cardamom pistachio – yummy!
Yummy, I have been eyeballing this maker all summer. My kids where drooling over the Mexican Hot Chocolate because they love that in winter. I love anything salty and sweet- pass the tub of Salted Carmel Ice Cream please!
The rhubarb lavender swirl sounds amazing!! I’m going to have to try that in the old-fashioned salt-and-ice hand-crank style ice cream maker in my parents’ basement!
I’m so happy I stumbled across your blog – you totally have a new subscriber (email) in me!!
I would like to try the Choc. Covered Strawberry and the Lemonaide Sherbert!
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