Dead Easy Ice Cream

Recipe authors: Lara DePetrillo & Caroline eastman-Bridges
Love Food,Can't Cook?
Reproduced courtesy of Piatkus

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1. In a saucepan combine the sugar, milk and cream, put it on a high heat and keep stirring until bubbes form at the edge. Turn down the heat. Meanwhile whick the eggs in a bowl. Add half the cream mixture to the eggs, stir well, then add the eggs to the rest of the cream in hte saucepan and, over a medium heat, stir constantly until the mixture coats the back of a metal spoon. Add anything else you want at this point, excluding nuts and chocolate chunks. Let the mixture cool in the fridge for a few hours then pour into an ice-cream maker. Now add chocolate chips or nuts and follow the ice-cream maker's instructions.
   
   To make a chocolate-based ice cream adding 110g cocoa powder to the milk and cream mixture at the beginning.
2. Lovely flavour combinations:
   
   chocolate and chillies; carrot and cardamom; Greek yoghurt; lavender and honey; avcacado and lime; Guinness and brownies (with optional walnuts).
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