Description
A easy, creamy ice cream dessert perfect for the summer.
Ingredients
- 1 ½ cups half-and-half
- ½ cup packed light brown sugar
- ½ cup white sugar
- 1 pinch salt
- 2 eggs, beaten
- 1 cup heavy whipping cream
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 2 very ripe bananas, mashed
- 1 cup crushed vanilla wafers
Instructions
- Combine half-and-half
- both sugars
- and salt in a saucepan over medium-low heat; cook and stir until sugars are dissolved
- about 5 minutes.
- Remove from the heat and transfer 1/2 of the hot mixture to a large bowl. Add eggs to the bowl and whisk until well combined. Pour mixture back into the saucepan. Stir in cream.
- Cook and stir over medium-low heat until mixture is thickened and coats the back of a spoon
- 5 to 10 minutes. Remove from the heat and stir in vanilla.
- Pour cream mixture over a fine mesh sieve into a bowl; cool to room temperature.
- Stir mashed bananas into cooled cream mixture
- then pour into an ice maker and freeze according to manufacturer’s instructions. Fold crushed wafers into ice cream during the last 5 to 10 minutes of freezing.
Prep Time: 10 mins
Cook Time: 10 mins
Total Time: 2 hrs 20 mins
Servings: 10