Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe and a Giveaway!

Recently, I was sent an Ice Cream maker from the good people at CSN Stores. Talk about quick delivery, it was here in exactly one week after my order was placed. It was a pleasure dealing with this company.

Anyway, the ice cream maker! It’s a Cuisinart automatic maker and it is so nice. You can whip up a quart of ice cream in about 1/2 an hour. No ice, no salt, no mess!!! Just mix up your base and put it in the frozen bowl of the maker, insert the churner thingy, put the lid on and hit the “on” button.

Delicious homemade ice cream in no time. Small enough to take with us when we go camping in our RV and perfect for the dog days of Summer.

My first play date with this machine came as soon as it arrived. I made a delicious Low Fat S’more Ice Cream. It was so good, I wish I had a quart of that in my freezer right now. I don’t, but I do have fresh made Strawberry Ice Cream (that I like to call Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream), and some Chocolate Flake Frozen Yogurt.

The strawberry ice cream was made up of sliced “fresh from the patch” strawberries that were mixed with a little sugar and a splash of balsamic vinegar. It was hard to resist the berries just like that but I put them into the food processor and gave them a whirl. You see, I don’t like hard frozen chunks of berries in my ice cream. They can be as hard as ice and me no likey. So I gave them a whirl and added them to my cream base. I was just going for a balsamic strawberry ice cream type of recipe but I had about 1/2 a cup of mini chocolate chips leftover and I just had to add them. It was a wise decision!

I also made a Chocolate Flake Frozen Yogurt It was good but it has quite the tang to it. I believe it was the yogurt I used and I think I have to play with that recipe a bit.

The Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream recipe and the giveaway are coming up. but first, check out some of these screaming recipes!

Candied Bacon Ice Creamby David Lebovitz

Cardamom Pistachio Ice cream from Modern Comfort Foods

Mint chocolate Chip from Healthy Green Kitchen (My daughter’s favorite!)

Mexican Chocolate Ice Cream from Amanda’s Cookin’

Brown Sugar Vanilla Bean Ice Cream also from Amanda’s Cookin’

Pine Nut Brown SugarIce Cream from Cookin Canuck

Chai Ice Cream from Simply Recipes

Apricot Sorbet from Two Peas and their Pod

Leomonade Sherbert from Boys and Baking

Salted Caramel Ice Cream from What’s Gaby Cookin’

Rhubarb Lavender Swirl Ice Cream from Daniel and Dawns Culinary Adventure

Wouldn’t you love to have your own Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker and make some of these delicious ice cream recipes? I’m going to be giving away one ice cream maker to one of my U.S. or Canadian readers! You have 3 chances to get your name in the hat.

 1. Just leave me a comment which ice cream you would like to try. That’s it! Simple, huh?

2. Subscribe to my blog. The subscribe tab is at the top Just be sure to let me know. (let me know if you are already a subscriber for your extra entry)

3.Tweet, Facebook, and/or Stumble about my giveaway!

I’ll put all the entries in a hat and find someone to pick a name sometime on June 18th. All entries will be excepted until I get around to drawing a name. Good Luck!

And now…

the Chocolate Covered Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe!