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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They all sound delicious. I love Pistachio, but I think I would try out the Pine Nut Brown SugarIce Cream. New to me, and sounds delicious.
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We have an ice cream shop that has wonderful thick milk shakes and I always get the strawberry chocolate chip shake, so that’s the recipe I want to try. I hate frozen chunks of strawberry too.
I tweeted here: http://twitter.com/Alacransita84/status/15757494678
I tweeted your giveaway!
I’d love to try the lemonade sherbet. Thanks for the giveaway.
An ice cream maker would be fabulous – who wouldn’t love one in the summer?
Chai ice cream sounds amazing. I am a sucker for anything spicy- pumpkin spice is my favorite ice cream- hard to find in summer. Would love to replace my old school machine and make some in one of these babies!
Follower through Bloglines! Love your posts.
I really want to make the Chai Ice Cream as we really love Chai around here! Oh, and I want to make the Salted Caramel Ice Cream as well!
I stumbled this and was already subscribed to your blog.
I would love to try a chocolate strawberry recipe with waffle cone pieces.
This looks wonderful You are so creative!!!
That brown sugar vanilla bean ice cream looks so delicious! In fact they all do. I love summer!
Fabulous frozen treats, Megan! I especially like the addition of the balsamic vinegar with the strawberries. Great idea.
Chai tea ice cream!
The chai tea ice cream sounds yummy- my hubby would go for the mint -
All your ice creams look so good! I absolutely love my ice cream maker, so I don’t need to enter the giveaway, though…
ps thanks for linking to my mint chocolate chip ice cream!
The strawberry with the addition of the balsamic…Wow! What a great giveaway. Thanks…now that I am on a diet! LOL
Mint chocolate chip! Heavenly! Would love to win this one!
That is one big bowl o’ temptation! WOW! Well, I’ll have to make YOURS and the Apricot Sorbet sounds wonderful too! Is there enough days in the summer for all this ice cream? Oh, yeah . . . . .
Your chocolate covered strawberry icecream is right up my alley! It sounds so good. I think strawberry is one of my top 3 and chocolate is another one and I’m wide open on the third choice, depending on what’s available.
Mmm, they all look so good! I’d pick the Chai Ice Cream, yum!
What a great giveaway!
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I tweeted!
http://twitter.com/Songberries/status/15799459959
For me it has to be the Candied Bacon Ice Cream followed closely by the Pine Nut Brown Sugar.
I love Chai so that sounds good but so does the Caramel. Hey why not just make all of them and then I can try them all.
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Mmmmmm Chocolate flake fro yo!!!! I’d love to win. I have an electric ice cream machine, but it requires ice and salt and is SUCH a hassle that I rarely use it.
Thanks Megan for the chance to win the ice cream maker, my family will adore this – huge ice cream fans my husband and daughter no matter what the season
I’ve seen a lot of buzz about candied bacon ice cream, so that will be one choice, as well as your chocolate covered strawberry ice cream which sounds great! Take care, Michele
Thanks for the chance to win the ice cream maker Megan! I’d like to try the candied bacon ice cream, and your chocolate covered strawberry ice cream sounds amazing. I have been happily subscribing to your wonderful blog for a while. Take care, Michele
Oh my! How to choose? They all sound really yummy, but I think I’d like to try the Salted Caramel first (then follow with all of the others)!
Thanks, I’m already a happy subscriber to your blog!
I would so love to try an apricot sorbet with this machine! Or could I just try homemade peach ice cream? Yum!
I’d like to try the Salted Caramel Ice Cream from What’s Gaby Cookin’
I’m a subscriber
Anything chocolate, dark chocolate!! YUM!!!
Subscribed by Google Reader!!
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Too yummy! I love ice cream and would love to try your S’Mores ice cream, low fat or not! Although low fat I could eat more, right? The cardamom pistachio sounds delicious and there is nothing better than Lemon(ade) sherbert in the summer.
Salted caramel ice cream? Yes please! jmgallo831(at)yahoo(dot)com
I follow on twitter @jojobean26!
I also subscribe via Google!
I want to try that Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean ice cream! Yummm!!
I’m a subscriber!
Oh, the salted caramel ice cream sounds just heavenly!
So glad you’re enjoying the machine. Your recipes sound delicious! 
That chai ice cream intrigues me!
Also, I RT’d on Twitter!
Can you taste the balsamic vinegar in the ice cream? Looks wonderful!
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