This Bourbon Cherry Caramel Ice Cream is a smooth, rich caramel ice cream with a homemade cherry jam swirl and Bourbon soaked cherries! The ice cream tastes like Werther’s Caramel candies and is creamy perfection!
Two ice cream posts in one week!? Lindsey, show some restraint!
Can’t stop. Won’t stop!
This Double Chocolate Caramel Ice Cream is deeply chocolatey, sinfully rich and 100% decadent. There is caramel sauce in the ice cream and swirled throughout like a silky caramel river with little bits of chopped chocolate taking it to the next level.
To me summer is ice cream. Ice cream is summer.
Ice cream on cobbler, ice cream on pie, ice cream on shortcake, ice cream mounded up and topped with ALL THE THINGS!
Layers of ice cream stacked on top of chewy cookies make the perfect Summer dessert! 
Ice cream. Summer. Parties. (Preferably with a grill or a rooftop…maybe both, but beggars can’t be choosers.) Ice cream. It’s become my mission. 
Now that culinary school is over (tear), there is a huge void in my life where all that sugar used to be. I’ve decided that the responsible thing to do in this situation is to eat as much ice cream as possible. So you can imagine that when McConnell’s offered to ship me pints of ice cream to try, I was more than moderately excited. 
Oh happy day! 
Beacuse McConnell’s uses only local ingredients, cage free eggs, and grass-grazed milk, it means that their ice cream is happy ice cream; and you can taste the difference. Rich, creamy, incredibly flavorful – you can tell that this ice cream is made with love. The Eureka Lemon Marionberries ice cream is bright with a little tang but still incredibly creamy; the Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip is rich and flavorful with the perfect amount of chocolate chips; and the Double Peanut Butter Chip is, well, God’s gift to the peanut butter lover. 
How do you make fantastic, happy ice cream better? You add a cookie. Obvi. Now there is nothing wrong with an old-fashioned ice cream sandwich, but sometimes you want something a little fancier. Like a perfectly cylindrical ice cream stack kind of fancy. Layers of complementary ice cream flavors and a little whipped cream stacked on top of a chewy cookie. How could you go wrong? {hint: you can’t} 
You know that feeling when you walk into an ice cream shop and you want to try everything, and then, once you do, you want to order every flavor? Welcome to my life. #thestruggleisreal I have fixed that problem here. (You’re welcome.) There are endless flavor combinations but I stacked Turkish Coffee and Salted Caramel Chip on top of a chocolate chip cookie (hello, heaven); and Eureka Lemon Marionberry and lemon whipped cream on top of a sugar cookie. 
If you pull these sassy, little ice cream cookie stacks out at the end of a Summer party, you’ll be the talk of the town. You can pick them up and bite into them or you can use a spoon like a civilized person. No judgement. And because little stacks of cookies and ice cream weren’t enough to make your day bright, McConnell’s ice cream is giving away 6 pints of ice cream!!
In case you don’t win but you still want to have rich and creamy, happy ice cream delivered to your door, McConnell’s can make that happen. It will be like Christmas in August. 
Ingredients
Instructions
French Vanilla Ice Cream 
The BEST Chocolate Ice Cream 
Reese’s Peanut Butter Ice Cream Pie {Nutterbutter Crust} 
Strawberry Caramel Swirl Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream 
S’mores Ice Cream 
This Fresh Peach Ice Cream will make your mouth-water with it’s juicy, fresh peach flavor. It’s like taking a bite of the creamiest, frozen, ripest peach you can imagine wrapped in a sweet dessert!
{Cough, Cough} Everyone! Pay attention. Today I am introducing you to one of my favorite people of all time, my blogging BFF, Kristi. She blogs over at Inspiration Kitchen where you will find tons of delicious appetizers, spicy dishes (holy wow does Kristi like her spice…funny story about that here), mouthwatering main courses, delectable sweets, or some combination of spicy sweet like this Chipotle Peanut Brittle. Oh and lots of shrimp…she loves her some shrimp! Seriously, the woman has it all! She has winning flavor combinations on lockdown!
I cannot remember exactly how I found Inspiration Kitchen, but I know that over the past year (has it really been that long?!) Kristi made me laugh and love her more with each and every post, comment or email! We have so much in common, it’s kind of creepy.
But can we please talk about this ice cream!!! I am all over this Fresh Peach Ice Cream just like Kristi knew I would be! Remember I had that ice cream moment this summer with all sorts of awesome flavors including the BEST chocolate ice cream? And then this French Vanilla Ice Cream to celebrate going to culinary school? I know. It’s a problem! But now I can’t wait to make this peach ice cream!
I just want to eat up this whole bowl and go hunt in the freezer for more!
Hi AHC lovers! I am Kristi from Inspiration Kitchen. I’m {self proclaimed} Lindsey’s blogging BFF. 🙂
I’m totally honored to be here guest posting for Lindsey, but can I trust you with a little secret???
I feel like I’m home…
You see… what you may not know about me is, that I’m not only a follower and a friend, but as it turns out, Lindsey and I have learned that we sssooo speak the same food love language, that we are like sistahs!
Except that…
Which means, we are perfect for each other! 🙂
Her not being able to handle the heat like I do, means more for Moi! And of course, I’m all about sweets too, so I’m totally all over what she makes, which means more for Moi! See how this goes? Essentially Moi is happy!
Because I know that Lindsey loves sweets, I wanted to make her something that would literally make her mouth water. With her being from Georgia, I couldn’t imagine a better recipe than a Fresh Peach Ice Cream.
Let me tell you… you.will.die.this.is.so.good.
It’s like biting into the ripest, juiciest, most mouth-watering peach you can imagine.
My French Vanilla Ice Cream is smooth and impossibly creamy! It is bursting with warm vanilla flavor and it is perfect by itself or as a compliment any dessert! (Yes, any)
Plain vanilla. Who started the horrible rumor that vanilla ice cream is plain? Probably Hershey’s.
However, there is nothing plain about this rich, creamy French Vanilla Ice Cream! I used a whole vanilla bean plus more vanilla bean paste to amp up the vanilla flavor and it Shines!
This is the kind of vanilla ice cream that is special enough for a celebration!
What are we celebrating?
Well I’ll let you in on a little secret that I have been holding inside until I’ve practically burst…
I’m going to CULINARY SCHOOL!!!
…in 15 days
…in New York City!
On January 20th I start the Pastry Arts Program at the International Culinary Institute in NYC, and I am so excited that I can barely sleep! I can’t wait to share this incredible experience with you and pass along all of the skills that I learn.
I also happen to love New York City. It is seriously like a dream come true.
But enough about me! More French Vanilla Ice Cream!
We are celebrating the last vestiges of summer with this decadent, no-bake Peanut Butter Reeses Ice Cream pie in a Nutter Butter crust.
This pie.
It will be my diet’s downfall.
I don’t really like the word “dieting” but all that ice cream recently has lingered a bit too long on my hips. My version of dieting is curbing my sweet intake, curbing my cheese intake (mmm cheese), and reducing my portions. Easy right?
Unfortunately just because I am not supposed to be eating desserts doesn’t mean I don’t get yummy, sweet vision in my head that I just have to make. Like this pie.
#whycantidreamofsalads
I had 5 egg yolks left from my last batch of Swiss Meringue Buttercream, which could only mean one thing, ICE CREAM!! I don’t like to play favorites but right now this peanut butter custard ice cream with Reese’s throughout is my favorite!
The Best Chocolate Ice Cream is a bold name, but it is equally matched by the bold chocolate flavor of this custard-based ice cream. It’s creamy and rich, decadently sweet, and it will make any chocolate lover swoon.
I consider myself a chocolate ice cream aficionado: a connoisseur of sorts. I have been ordering chocolate ice cream every single trip to the ice cream shop since my first taste of chocolate heaven at my 1st birthday party. Right, mom?
If you are in an ice cream shop with me and I am ordering something other than chocolate, you should ask if I am feeling alright unless, of course, I am getting another flavor AND chocolate. Totally normal.
Therefore, I feel 100% qualified to call this ice cream The BEST Chocolate Ice Cream. It is smooth and creamy with an unparalleled chocolate flavor. It is the perfect balance of bittersweet and sweet. This is not a chocolate ice cream where you take two bites and you feel a chocolate coma coming on. No, no. Each bite will surprise you with its chocolatiness and you will find yourself involuntarily reaching for another scoop.
I told you this ice cream maker was going to be a problem. Here we are two days later and I have another ice cream post. I just couldn’t wait to appropriately space it out. It’s just too dang good! This Toasted Marshmallow Smores Ice Cream will absolutely rock your world!
And, yes, I am fully aware that S’mores week was last week but I just couldn’t get this ice cream made and photographed in time! It was going to be my Friday post but those sensational Toasted Marshmallow Golden Graham Smores Bars happened instead.
No regrets.
I incorporated toasted marshmallows and milk chocolate into the ice cream mixture, so that it is infused with toasted marshmallow flavor. I swirled in some Nocciolata and topped it with a savory graham cracker sand.
I love ice cream! LOVE. If you even just casually read blogs or food magazines, you can’t help but be bombarded with delicious photos of every conceivable type of ice cream. It was torture; so several weeks ago I finally caved and bought an ice cream maker!
My brother’s visit seemed to be the perfect time to break it in! I texted him asking his current favorite type of ice cream but he responded, “I don’t know.”
Ummm I don’t know how to make that type of ice cream so I suggested that strawberry used to be his favorite (how he could pick that over chocolate, I could never understand!). But why make plain strawberry when you can make Strawberry Caramel Swirl Chocolate Cookie Ice Cream instead?!
Why indeed.
You will love this twist on strawberry ice cream because what could be better than swirls of caramel surrounding sweet, silky strawberry ice cream dotted with chocolate cookies. This is how I do fresh fruit dessert: with chocolate and caramel tipping it way over the edge of “healthy.”
