Chocolate biscuits

 

These are made from the left over dough from my ice cream sandwich biscuits - the dough froze well and the biscuits tasted the same as the fresh ones. They do make me crave ice cream though....

Ice cream sandwiches

I loved ice cream sandwiches as a kid - who didnt! But they were usually made with wafer not biscuits and as ive been seeing biscuit based one all over pinterest i had to give them a go!
I used this recipe by Smitten Kitchen and used my homemade cookies and cream ice cream and they were amazing! Very rich so id might make half sized ones next time but they definitely lived up to my childhood memories!

Cookies and Cream ice cream

More ice cream! I used the same easy recipe as for my Caramel and Chocolate Ice Cream but this time i added crushed up chocolate biscuits to the mix - delicious!
I used the biscuits from my ice cream sandwich and then used this ice cream in the middle! It was v. rich but amazing!

Caramel and Chocolate ice cream

I went a bit ice cream crazy last weekend and made a couple of different bacthes and some ice cream sandwiches - i think i was in a sugar coma by sunday!
The reason was, that i found the simplest recipe ever. Just custard, cream and whatever flavour you want - thats it! Too good to be true? I thought id give it a go and see.
I wanted to make dulce leche ice cream but my local supermarker didnt have any and i didnt have time to go anywhere else, but then i spotted some caramel and chocolate spread and figured that would be an ok substitute - and it really was! This ice cream is delicious :) I just added a big spoon full of the caramel and chocolate spread to the mix and froze it in the ice cream maker. It made a lovely creamy caramelly chocolately ice cream, a-mazing!
I'll be making this again (once ive burnt off this batch!)

Mango sorbet - sugar and fat free

More frozen food! Well the ice creamer maker was already out so itd be rude not to make use of it :)

I do love ice cream etc but it can be really calorific so i thought id try making a fat free and sugar free sorbet. I used a sweetner called Splenda and found this recipe on their website. It was super easy to make, just whizzed everything up in a food processor and popped it in the ice cream maker. Again it was an amazing texture, so smooth and light, but im not sure i was totally sold on the flavour though. Mangos arent my favourite fruit and ive never had sorbet with egg whites in it so im not sure if those two things were colouring my opinion... It certainly wasnt bad though and lovely BM didnt notice it was made with sweetener rather than sugar which must be a good sign! I think i'll try it with some different fruit, possibly kiwi or watermelon and report back!

Blueberry frozen yoghurt

Yum :) I love ice cream and frozen yoghurt and sorbet, i even love just plain ice cubes. Im a bit of a ice lover basically! Lovely BM bought me a fancy ice cream maker last christmas (love you BM!) and it is amazing. It makes the most beautifully textured ice creams so i thought it was due some usage.

The ingredients are just a large tub of fat free greek yoghurt, a big punnet of blueberries and a couple of tablespoons of sugar. Whizz them all together in a food processor and check the sweetness. Always make frozen stuff slightly sweeter than unfrozen food as freezing dulls some of the sweeteness. You can strain the mix then to remove all the skins but i quite like the different texture it adds. Although if you use fruit with hard seeds then i would definitely strain the mix. Chuck it all in the ice cream maker and away you go :) You can freeze it in the freezer too if you dont have an ice cream maker, just give it a stir every hour or so to break up any big ice crystals and improve the texture.

Enjoy!