Make good use of your ice cream machine! The following recipes are for chocolate and chocolate blends only.

Recipe #1 - CHOCOLATE ICE CREAM

4 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
2 cups table cream (18% milk fat)
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup cocoa powder (sifted)
2 tsp pure vanilla extract

Beat egg yolks lightly. Beat in sugar. Heat the cream/milk on the stove. As it's heating, beat in cocoa powder. Heat cream/milk/cocoa mix until steaming. Stir into egg/sugar mix. Add vanilla extract. Cool. Freeze in ice cream maker.

Recipe #2 - CHOCOLATE BANANA

3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 oz bittersweet chocolate
2 cups table cream (18% milkfat)
1 1/2 cups milk
6 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 over-ripe bananas
Juice of 1 lemon

Beat eggs lightly. Beat sugar in to eggs. Melt chocolate in milk and cream. When chocolate partially melted, stir in cocoa powder. Continue stirring chocolate/cream mixture until hot but not quite boiling. Stir hot chocolate/cream mixture in to eggs. Stir in vanilla extract. Cool.

When ready to make, mash bananas and lemon juice together Make chocolate mixture in ice cream maker. Just before ready, add banana mixture.

Note: Use good quality, *very* ripe bananas. Otherwise your ice cream will have a strange flavor.

Recipe #3 - CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH

2 c Milk
1 3/4 c Sugar
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Half & Half
1 tb Vanilla Extract
4 c Whipping Cream
Pillsbury Chocolate Chip - Cookie Dough (large size) - OR homemade cookie dough

Take the chocolate cookie dough out of fridge and leave out till needed. Scald milk until bubbles form around edge. Remove from heat. Add sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved. Stir in half and half, vanilla, and whipping cream. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Freeze as directed by your ice cream machine's instructions.

Once ice cream has been through the entire ice cream machine process and is now a chilled soft ice cream, add the chocolate chip cookie dough. Just break up the dough as best you can with your hands and drop it in small clusters into the soft ice cream. Try to mix it around to ensure that the cookie dough is evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. Put the ice cream in the freezer for several hours until hardened.

Enjoy!