another cinnamon ice cream

I've made plenty of cinnamon ice cream and this isn't much different. But there are chopped up oatmeal chocolate chip cookies.

I add about 1 tablespoon of cinnamon per pint of base. Maybe some nutmeg or pumpkin pie spices if you're into that. Or some cayenne (<---I'm into that). Also, it's that time of year. Yes: eggnog time. So, maybe add eggnog too (think: thick custard, tasty, well-spiced...almost an ice cream base on its own).
My friends (all 2 of them) and I make cookies when we are relaxing at our parents’ homes. Since reaching cookie saturation two nights ago, I felt it appropriate to realize the potential of the already toasted, spiced, chocolate-laden oatmeal. So, after a quick chop and some lazy handfuls of cookie remnants, the ice cream was done. It's good.

Banana ice cream. Cinnamon ice cream. One base: two flavors

Whenever you have a small chunk of time (maybe less than 20 minutes) make batch of simple ice cream base. It will stay for about a week in a cold fridge, save you time making it, and the low temperature will produce great, smooth results.

ICE CREAM BASE (makes 4.5 cups)
::2.5 cups milk
::1.5 cups cream
::5 egg yolks
::1.5 cups sugar
::salt

- Mix yolks with sugar and a dash of salt.
- Slowly whisk in scalded milk.
- Return to heat and thicken custard.
- Take off heat, add cream, cool.

It's really easy, really thick, really great results. I made small pint batches using 1.5-1.75 cups base depending on mix-ins.



BANANA ICE CREAM
- 1/2 banana, minced and sprinkled with salt and cinnamon.

CINNAMON ICE CREAM
- 1.5 tbs cinnamon, 1/2 tsp nutmeg, 1/2 tsp cayenne.

Both of these came out awesome, and because I was using so little base, it only took about 15 minutes in the mixer. Now I'll make a batch of these combined...BANANA BREAD ICE CREAM...it's coming soon