For those of you who have known me for awhile you know that I have a “thing” for making ice cream. As a matter of fact, I purchased a new ice cream maker today compliments of my son who is working a garage sale at his dads. That makes number four (although number one didn’t last long so I technically only have three). Tonight the youngest is asking for plain ol’ vanilla – all the recipes I find are complicated and require cooking the base for a custard so we are going out on a limb and making it up, he’s only five, I want him to go to bed and besides, how sophisticated can his palate be?

So it went like this…

1 egg

2 egg yolks

1 1/2 cup heaving whipping cream (because that is all I had left – I WASN’T making a trip to the store)

2 1/2 cup milk (to get to the 4 cups liquid that makes the perfect amount for my storage container and see above)

3/4 cup sugar

2 teaspoons vanilla

whip eggs, add the rest and pour through a fine mesh strainer (to catch that yechy yolk casing) into your ice cream maker of choice and that’s about it.

Fast forward 35 minutes later and the ice cream is finished – not waiting for this one to go in the freezer, serving it up soft serve (did I mention I want him to go to bed?) PS – 5 minutes before it was finished I added mini-chocolate chips (because that is when he asked if he could have mini-chocolate chips in it)

Would have switched the amounts of cream and milk for a creamier texture (this was more like ice milk) but it was yummy – no complaints from the little one and FINALLY we can start getting ready for bed.