Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ice cream. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Grasshopper Ice Cream

A family favorite:

56 Oreos, crushed
1 c chopped pecans
1/2 c melted butter
1/2 gallon mint-chocolate chip ice cream, softened
1/2 gallon mint-brownie chunk ice cream, softened

In a small bowl, combine cookies, butter and pecans. Spread half of the mixture in the bottom of a 9x13 pan.  Top with softened ice cream.  (either mix separately or create 2 layers)  Sprinkle remaining cookie mixture on top.  Drizzle with chocolate syrup if desire.  Freeze until ready to serve.

Obviously, you could use 1 gallon of mint-chocolate chip ice cream also.

Snicker Bar Ice Cream

From my free membership @ America's Test Kitchen:

1 pint vanilla ice cream, softened
10 mini peanut butter cups, chopped coarse
10 mini Snickers bars, chopped coarse
1/4 cup heavy cream

1.  Make peanut butter ice cream:  Stir ice cream and peanut butter cups together in a large bowl until combined.  Return to freezer until firm, at least 30 minutes.

2.  Make Snickers Sauce:  Combine Snickers bars and cream in small saucepan over low heat, stirring frequently, until melted into chunky sauce.  Remove from heat.

3.  Serve:  Scoop ice cream into four bowls and spoon warm sauce over it.  Serve.

Frappe

I used to make frappe a lot.  The recipe:  pineapple sherbet, sliced strawberries, sliced bananas.  Freeze and serve over Sprite.  Then when I married Tom, I stopped making it because he doesn't like bananas.

But then I had to make treats for a meeting the other day and had a request to make an ice cream treat.  I've about used up all of my ice cream treats on that group already, so I went back to my roots and did a frappe.  I changed it up a little though.  Also yummy!

2 containers pineapple sherbet
1 container vanilla ice cream
1-2 cups frozen raspberries
1-2 cups frozen blueberries
3-4 quartered then sliced bananas
Stir until it starts to turn pink.  Freeze.  Serve slightly softened over Sprite.

And suddenly as I was stirring, I came up with a non-banana lover solution: remove some before adding the bananas.  Store in a different container.  We're back to being a frappe-loving family.  I'm so excited!