Nothing beats ice cream on a hot summer day and lately the past few days have been scorchers. If I'm being really honest I don't need hot weather as an excuse to eat ice cream, I will eat it in the dead of the winter in the middle of a snowstorm. Pair it with a brownie and some whipped cream and I'm in heaven and homemade ice cream to boot? Now we're talking.
If you were to do a search on ice cream recipes I'm willing to bet that you'll find hundreds if not thousands of variations. When I got my ice cream maker a few years ago I got right to work to find the perfect ice cream recipe of all. It took a little tweaking but I managed to come up with one that is simply amazing. It is loosely based on Chef Richard Blais's chocolate ice cream recipe from Top Chef from the episode when he made the Banana Scallops and Banana Guacamole but I altered it based on other recipes I found and made it a little more waistline friendly so I wouldn't feel so guilty going back for seconds!
