I love it when friends or family ask me “Have you ever made ___”? Unless it’s something completely extravagant requiring tools I just don’t have, then I am up for the challenge. Enter Cinnamon Ice Cream. About 7 years ago my In-Laws, Cherrill and Andy, came to our farm in Washington for a visit on their way to California from Michigan. My Father-in-law is a serious, and I do mean serious, pie and ice cream connoisseur. That man loves his pie! We were all sitting around the dinner table one night and he asked me “have you ever made Cinnamon Ice Cream”? My first thought was “yuck” then he went on to explain that there’s an ice cream shop in Michigan that served the best Cinnamon Ice Cream he’d ever had. He does know his desserts so maybe he’s on to something here. Having made ice cream before, I had a good base recipe with which to start and gave it a shot. Let me just tell you, if you’re thinking “yuck”, you will change your mind! Unless you’re deathly allergic to cinnamon or are having a flashback to High School when you downed that 5th of Cinnamon Schnapps only later to see what regurgitated Taco Pizza looks like. Oh boy – I digress (and can somewhat relate). Anyway, if either of those apply, you may want to just forget this ice cream recipe all together. But – if you like cinnamon, then there’s nothing closer to Heaven than a scoop of this ice cream nestled up to a piece of warm Apple Pie. I can promise you that and Andy can concur. I hope you enjoy this recipe as much as we do! It’s a keeper for sure.
Half & Half & Sugar goes in the saucepan |
While the sugar and milk are coming to temperature – get the eggs good and whisked |
Temper the eggs. See the thin stream of warm milk going in to the eggs? If you dump, you’ll have cooked eggs! No one likes Scrambled Egg Ice Cream – so don’t go there. |
Break a cinnamon stick in two and toss it in. |
I love chicken skin, turkey skin, potato skin – just not ice cream skin. So make sure you get the plastic wrap down in the bowl touching the milk mixture. Then you won’t get skin. |
The ice cream goodness is churning. You can see it’s starting to get thick at this point. |