CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY ICE CREAM RECIPE

Chocolate Ice Cream mix (reduce to 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 cup raspberries
Mash raspberries together with 1/4 cup sugar. Just before adding to ice cream maker, stir juice from berries into mix. Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Just before frozen, add berries. Note: Fresh raspberries produce better ice cream, but frozen raspberries will still make an excellent treat (but don't use raspberries frozen in syrup).

CINNAMON version 1

3 cups heavy cream
1 1/2 cups whole milk
2 vanilla beans, split lengthwise
1 cup plus 2 tablespoons sugar
6 egg yolks
2 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

Combine cream and milk in a large sauce pan. Scrape in seeds from vanilla beans; add beans. Bring just to simmer. Whisk sugar and yolks in large bowl to blend. Gradually whisk in hot cream mixture. Return mixture to same saucepan. Stir over medium-low heat until custard thickens and leaves path on back of spoon when finger is drawn across, about 6 min. (do not boil). Strain into large bowl. Whisk in ground cinnamon. Chill until cold, about 3 hours. Transfer custard to ice cream maker and process according to manufacturer's instructions. Transfer ice cream to a covered container and freeze until firm. (Can be made 3 days ahead. Keep frozen).

CINNAMON version 2

1/4 cup non-instant skim milk powder
2/3 cup sugar
2 cups table cream
1 cup milk
2 egg yolks
1 tablespoon cinnamon

Mix skim milk powder and 1/3 cup of sugar in a large bowl. Slowly beat in cream; you want to dissolve the solids in the cream, but just barely. Avoid clumping. Beat until smooth, and then beat in milk. Lightly beat eggs yolks; beat in remaining sugar. Heat cream/milk/sugar mixture to almost boiling. Pour hot cream/etc mix onto egg yolks while constantly stirring. Cool, and put in ice cream machine. Shortly before ice cream is ready (it should have thickened), add cinnamon.