A Fly Boy Feature: Chocolate Mint Ice Cream

As most of you may know "Fly Boy" is my husband and he does not cook! I finally told him he had to make dinner at least once a week. While this recipe does not count as dinner, he was so proud of himself he asked me to post it on my blog. I thought that was cute so I told him I would do a Fly Boy feature anytime he made something new and blog worthy!

Let me give you a little bit of ice cream background about our families.  In my family my Granny always had Cookies and Cream ice cream and ice cream sandwiches.  She would offer it to you any time of day...after breakfast, lunch or dinner! My parents always have at least three or four half gallons of ice cream in the freezer and usually my  mom has a bowl every night. I worked in an ice cream store in high school and my little sister spent a few summers working at another local ice cream joint. Now I thought that having ice cream for dessert with breakfast was a sure sign of ice cream lovers until I met my husband's family.

I thought my family ate a lot of ice cream but when I met Fly Boy I realized I was wrong. He will eat an entire container in one sitting.  Ice cream is a side dish to every dessert.  When asked if you want cake it appears with ice cream even though there was no mention of ice cream. His grandma always has 5 or six different flavors in her house. We don't buy ice cream now that we are married because it does not last more than a day.

So a few days ago we returned some dishes to Bed, Bath and Beyond and had a ton of left over store credit.  In my blog stalking I have seen a lot of recipes for ice cream and I thought it would be fun to have an ice cream maker so we could make our own flavors.  We purchased the maker and Fly Boy was itching so bad to make some ice cream that he made it at 10:00 one night.  I was impressed with the outcome. 

The ice cream directly out of the ice cream maker has more of a milk shake consistency but if you put it in a container and freeze it, it comes out pretty much like store bought ice cream.  Fly Boy made this Chocolate Mint Ice cream and I was impressed.  It does melt fairly fast as you can see in the picture below. 

Be sure to read the directions that come with your ice cream maker before starting.  Ours you have to freeze the bucket for about 12 hours.

1 1/2 cups whole milk
3/4 cup chocolate syrup
3 tbsp sugar
3 cups  heavy cream
1 tsp mint extract
1 cup chocolate candies (we just used chocolate chips)

In a mixing bowl, combine the first three ingredients until sugar is dissolved.  Add the heavy cream and mint.  Pour into ice cream maker and mix for 20-25 minutes.  Five minutes before the mixing is complete, add the chocolate candies. Place mixture in an air tight container and freeze for at least two hours.