Chocolate Toffee Crunch...Ice Cream!

I decided to give you a nice cool break from the Back To School Party, in fact it's so cool, it's ICE!  As in Ice Cream.  You have heard someone say you cannot judge a book by it's cover, right?  Well, in this case that's totally wrong.  When I was asked if I'd like to do a review of Wendy Paul's newest book 101 Gourmet Ice Cream Creations - I had to make this...

Toffee Crunch Ice Cream



I took one look at the cover and fell in love. 

After I opened the book, I was even more in love - it was very easy to read, had lots of wonderful photos AND it was spiral bound.  What's not to love?

And I like a challenge - I've never made home made ice cream in my life.  Eaten it perhaps?  A big yes - I have great memories of my mom making the "magic potion" and dad cranking the ice cream mixer out on the sidewalk.  I drove them nuts asking if it was done yet, kind of the same way I drove them nuts on vacation, asking if we were there yet! 

 

So why haven't I made homemade ice cream?  Good question, because I have been missing out.  Thanks to Wendy Paul's new book, I'll never miss out again!  After spending a good amount of time deciding upon the recipe to make, I enlisted the help of my daughter, the ice cream connoisseur, then we agreed.  Chocolate Toffee Crunch! 

Oh my, every bite was like a chocolate ice cream truffle with toffee bits.  Out of this ice cream world good.  Here's the process of my first home made ice cream experiment.

And you will find the wonderful recipe at the bottom of this post.
 

Now that I've sampled (okay, more than sampled) one of the recipes in the book, you can be sure I'll be making more! Take another look~

This ice cream is the BEST ice cream I've ever eaten!

All opinions are 100% mine and...

 Partiologist Approved!

 

 

Chocolate Toffee Crunch Ice Cream

by Wendy Paul

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Ingredients (1 Quart)

• 1 Basic recipe of your choice (Following)
• 1/3 Cup Cocoa
• 1/2 Cup Semisweet Chocolate Chips
• 2 Crushed Toffee Pieces

Rich and Creamy Vanilla Basic Recipe

• 2 Egg Yolks
• 3/4 Cup Sugar
• 2 Cups Heavy Cream
• 1 Cup 2% Milk
• 1 tsp. Pure Vanilla Extract

Instructions

Rice & Creamy Vanilla Basic

Whisk together egg yolks and 1/4 cup sugar until eggs are light yellow in color and fluffy. Whish in the rest of the sugar.

Combine cream, milk and vanilla extract and whisk together until completely combined.

Chocolate Toffee Crunch

Place the Basic recipe, cocoa and chocolate chips in a saucepan.

Whisk together on medium heat until the chocolate is smooth and no lumps appear.

Remove from the heat and cool completely in the fridge.

Place your creamy mixture in your machine and follow manufacturer's directions in freezing.

Add your crushed toffee pieces during the last 5 minutes.