Friday, May 9, 2008

Ice cream maker

I tried out my new ice cream maker this week, using a recipe that's being passed around the food blogs-- an insanely easy Nutella ice cream.


All you need is 1.5 cups of Nutella and 1.5 cups plus one tablespoon of unsweetened evaporated milk.


The directions that came with the ice cream maker said that it should run for 20-30 minutes. I had to run it for 45 just to get a soft-serve consistency. After it had spent a day in the freezer, it was a normal to hard.


It's good, but rich and VERY sweet. A friend who tried it said it tasted more like a brownie than ice cream. Two baby-sized scoops is more than enough to satisfy my sweet tooth.

Speaking of ice cream, I'll throw in this little story as a bonus. I was eating lunch at the Union the other day with some friends. I asked them if they knew of any ice cream places nearby where I could get the taste of Sbarro out of my mouth. They told me that a branch of the UNL Dairy Store opened up right next to the coffee house in the Union. Hearing that news was the greatest thing that had happened to me all day. So we went to get ice cream and I ordered the "Whopper Topper" in a sugar cone. As I licked my cone and waited for my friends, I thought about how happy I was to enjoy a delicious ice cream cone on a beautiful spring day with my good friends. Just as all seemed right with the world, I took what was, perhaps, an overzealous bite, and exposed a weakness in the structure of the cone. The entire scoop went rolling down the front of my shirt before I caught it with my bare hands. All the stressed-out students studying for their finals in the area got a good chuckle and I had an excuse to go to Stella and buy a new top. (Sorry, no picture!)

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