We recently started watching Psych. It’s incredibly funny. Nate bought the first 3 seasons on DVD for $8 each at Half Price Books and while it started out as a late-night-after-the-kids-are-asleep-watching-the-laptop-in-bed activity, the kids are totally in on it now, and they love it.
We laugh.
Hard.
Anyway, the title of this post is a quote from Psych. However, the reason I chose that particular quote is because we have made the discovery of a lifetime.
Or, of the summer at least.
Homemade malt ice cream.
After several holidays of Nate suggesting he buy me an ice cream maker, (to which I repeatedly declined), I caught on and bought him one for Father’s Day. Ours is red.
He’s made strawberry ice cream. He’s made mango peach ice cream. And last night, we made malt ice cream.
Pure heaven. It was pretty darned good last night, but I’ve never tasted anything as delicious as the flavor explosion of homemade malt ice cream the day after.
Because I love you, I’m going to share this very simple recipe that my delightful husband came up with all on his own. (I honestly haven’t Googled malt ice cream yet. Maybe this is something incredibly common that everyone but us knew about. If it is, well, then there’s just that much more joy in the world).
So, here it is. Enjoy, and then tell me how much you love it.
With a hand mixer, mix together-
-1 cup whole milk
-1/2 cup sugar
-4 Tbsp Ovaltine (the chocolate MALT kind)
-1 tsp vanilla
then add
-2 cups heavy whipping cream
-4 (more) Tbsp Ovaltine
and mix ’til well blended (a minute or so) before pouring into your ice cream maker. (Follow maker instructions. We store our clean bowl in the freezer so it’s ready to go when the desire strikes).
In the last 5 minutes of churning, add a very large handful of Whoppers, chopped. And as I mentioned earlier, if you can, freeze it overnight and eat it the next day. It’s kind of like soft serve right out of the ice cream maker, but fully frozen the texture is fantastic.
Mmmmmmmm.
July 11th, 2010 at 6:23 pm
I can’t believe it…we got an ice cream maker for our wedding 6 years ago. As of Saturday, we had never taken it out of the box, so I sent it to Value Village. The guy taking donations tried to talk me out of it, but I promised we’d never use it. But I didn’t realize I could make Whopper ice cream! **sigh**
July 11th, 2010 at 7:08 pm
Okay. . . you really haven’t seen the rage over Malt in ice cream and cookies in the blogosphere lately?! You are so right on the mark about this one. Malt powder has been on my mental grocery list for a while!
AND, are you really not on FaceBook?! Because if you’re not, then you’re reading my mind. The other day, I asked my FB “friends” to recommend new t.v. series to watch instantly on Netflix. It morphed into a huge (40 comments!!) list of all t.v. shows I should watch. Psych wasn’t mentioned, but I’m adding it because I’d forgotten all about it and I adore “Charlie” from The West Wing (I never know actors names, just the names of the characters they played when I first noticed them). Can’t wait to watch Psych AND make some malt ice cream!
xoxo
August 16th, 2010 at 11:12 pm
You actually turned down an ice cream machine? NO way! I’d give my eye teeth for someone who’d want to buy me one! (Says a lot about my social life, doesn’t it?)
😮