CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH ICE CREAM RECIPE

2 c Milk
1 3/4 c Sugar
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Half & Half
1 tb Vanilla Extract
4 c Whipping Cream
Pillsbury Chocolate Chip - Cookie Dough (large size) - OR homemade cookie dough

Take the chocolate cookie dough out of fridge and leave out till needed. Scald milk until bubbles form around edge. Remove from heat. Add sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved. Stir in half and half, vanilla, and whipping cream. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Freeze as directed by your ice cream machine's instructions. Once ice cream has been through the entire ice cream machine process and is now a chilled soft ice cream, add the chocolate chip cookie dough. Just break up the dough as best you can with your hands and drop it in small clusters into the soft ice cream. Try to mix it around to ensure that the cookie dough is evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. Put the ice cream in the freezer for several hours until hardened.

CHOCOLATE EXPRESSO

2 C heavy cream, whipped stiff
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C chocolate syrup (ie Nestles)
1 whole fresh egg, slightly beaten
1 serving of instant coffee powder, your choice of international flavor (mocha, vienna, etc)

Add the salt and egg to the whipped cream. Beat until well blended. Add, folding gently, but thoroughly, the chocolate syrup and instant coffee. Freeze as is for 3 hours.

CHOCOLATE FLAKE

If you like little chewy bits of dark chocolate in your ice cream then this chocolate chip is just the thing for you. This is prepared just like the Double Chocolate (see recipe), except when the chocolate is dissolved in the double boiler, pour the thick chocolate sauce directly into the prepared ice cream mix. The chocolate will "shatter" into thousands of chocolate bits and a few large clumps. Immediately beat on low speed mixer until all the large clumps are broken up into tiny chocolate flakes. Allow to cool completely, chilling in the refrigerator for about four hours (this "ages" the mix), and freeze in your ice cream freezer.