coffee ice-cream

I have a secret to share.  A secret about making the best homemade coffee ice-cream.  Now you're curious, right?!

.... it's using real coffee grounds.  Maybe some of you have already figured this out, but if you haven't and you like coffee, you need to try this.

There's no real recipe to the coffee ice-cream I made.  You can use any kind of milk/cream/yogurt/sweetener combo you like, making the amount of base your ice-cream machine can hold.  My ingredient list looked something like this:

+ 1 cup whipping cream
+ 1 8oz. container vanilla bean nonfat yogurt
+ some melted vanilla ice-cream (is it cheating to put store-bought ice-cream into homemade ice-cream?!)
+ a little bit of vanilla almond milk
+ some 2% milk
(total was enough milk/yogurt to get me to 4 cups of milk base)
+ 1/4 c. sugar
+ 1 T. vanilla
+ ~1 T. Starbucks coffee grounds
+ chopped chocolate chips

Stir together and pour in an ice-cream machine and let church until frozen (I add the chocolate chips when the ice-cream is almost done).  Enjoy before it melts!

Oh, and I have learned something about making homemade ice-cream.  The base tastes sweeter than the finished product (which makes sense, due to the air in the ice-cream)... so keep that in mind as you make your base.

And if you don't have an ice-cream machine but want something that tastes like this?  The fast version is to put some vanilla ice-cream in a glass, sprinkle in some coffee grounds and chocolate chips, pour in a little milk and stir.  It makes a thick milkshake consistency and it's delicious.