Thin Mint Ice Cream

It's cookie time! I love Girl Scout cookies! I can't wait for February every year! I always buy too many. Wait...is that possible? Can you ever have too many Girl Scout cookies? I was a GS when I was a young girl and I was also the top seller one year in my council. Very exciting! I've seen what good the money from cookie sales can do for those girls. It helped pay for my Girl Scout camp a couple summers! Great memories! So 17 boxes later and a freezer full, we are finding things to do with our cookies besides just eat them!

For Christmas, my mom gave ice cream attachment for my KitchenAid. This thing is amazing! I was a little intimidated because I've never made my own ice cream before, but it was so easy! AND this ice cream was amazing! We shared it with friends and got rave reviews! I made a double batch because I knew we were sharing. This week I'm going to tweak the recipe and try to make it with Carmel Delights. I'll let you know how it turns out!

I had a hard time getting the ripple effect with this ice cream. I'm going to try to do it a little different with the next batch. But in the mean time...

Thin Mint Ice Cream
Source: Erin Cooks

2 eggs
3/4 C sugar
2 C heavy cream
1 C whole milk
2 tsp. peppermint extract
1o oz. hot fudge sauce
1 sleeve of thin mint cookies, crushed

Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes. Add the sugar and whisk until blended. Pour in the cream, milk, and peppermint extract and whisk together. Begin freezing the mixture according to your maker's directions.

When the mixture begins coming together add the crushed cookies. In the KA, this is in the last 10 minutes. Pour half the ice cream into your freezer container. Top with the hot fudge to create a ripple layer. ***This is where I had trouble. The fudge was too heavy and sunk to the bottom of the not hardened ice cream. I think if I had frozen the ice cream to let it set and then put the layer of fudge on it would have worked better. Either way, it was still yummy!*** Top with the remaining ice cream.

Freeze in your freezer to harden the ice cream. Enjoy!!!