Ice Cream Summer Part X

Some more ice cream recipes in the period after I thought I was done with making ice cream for the summer (see other flavors here), assuming that summer ends with Labor Day (a very American assumption). As this publishes (September 22, 2022), autumn has officially begun. It's nice to end with a ten posts, right?

Inspired during a visit to the grocery store, we made banana pudding ice cream. We did not make banana pudding, we just food-processed two bananas (one was brown and spotty, the other was straight yellow) and half a cup of Nilla Wafers (what we spotted at the store). The bananas and the wafers went into the food processor separately and were added during the last five minutes of vanilla ice cream stirring. The banana soup raised the temperature of the cream. It looked like it was melting back into a pure liquid for a short while! The mixer recovered and the results were delicious.

Pretty yummy though hard to tell it is banana visually!

Our next concoction was the classic mint chocolate chip. The ingredients were quite simple, just some mint extract and a chocolate bar. We thought about using chocolate chips like for cookies, but decided to go with our favorite flavor of chocolate bar...

Not much to add to the vanilla recipe

The only change to the basic vanilla recipe was swapping out vanilla extract for peppermint extract (and, of course, the extra malted milk powder). We chopped up the chocolate bar into little chunks with a kitchen knife since the food processor would probably have turned it into chocolate powder. As usual, the chunks were put into the machine for the last five minutes of mixing. One chocolate bar was the perfect amount for our batch.

The usual two containers

The flavor came out well. We chose not to add green dye because it isn't really necessary. Mint is a flavor, not a color!

We went to a local ice cream shop that makes its own flavors. My youngest had graham cracker and peanut butter. That flavor was especially liked by my wife, so we tried it out at home.  

We didn't even have to make a special trip to the grocery!

Our previous experience with peanut butter-flavored ice cream had too much peanut butter, so we scaled back. Also, we did not put the peanut butter into the ice cream machine. Instead, we put the food-processed graham crackers in for the last five minutes. Then, as we scooped the ice cream into the container, we layered in the peanut butter. It was not as hard as layering marshmallow fluff, especially with a spoon that was flatter than a normal spoon. The process was a little laborious but the results were good to look at.

You can see the peanut butter on the side

The smaller container had no peanut butter for those in the family who do not like peanut butter. Both flavors came out well, with high marks given for imitating the store-bought flavor.