vanilla in a dish homemade is the best though

I love ice cream! I too like vanilla best but will buy other flavors as well. At home, we like Breyers. They have one called birthday cake. It's vanilla but with a stripe of chocolatey crunch similar to Carvel's chocolate.

We have like Snickers, Rocky Road, Caramel flavors, DH like cherry vanilla. I like chocolate chip mint.

In Japanese restaurants I always get the green tea ice cream for dessert.

I like cones when we are out. Easy while walking.

One of my favorites from years ago, but they don't make it any more, was reverse chocolate chip...dark chocolate ice cream with white chocolate chips.

We have a local dairy farm that serves really creamy ice cream. They make a raspberry swirl with dark chocolate chunks that is to die for.

There is also a place down the way that makes the creamiest ice cream ever, but I'm not so much a fan of their weird flavor combos. What makes it so creamy is they freeze the ice cream in front of you using liquid nitrogen. It cools the cream so quickly that ice crystals don't have time to form.

I used to love Blue Bell butter pecan but in the last few years have not bought much store bought ice cream due to reports of Blue Bell and listeria.

However, I bought an ice cream maker and have made vanilla and home made ice cream is incredibly good.

That should be ice cream. My tablet is acting up today. For those that make homemade, what is a good ice cream maker? Can it be made without one?

I have the Cuisinart, I like it but have no experience with other brands.

I prefer soft serve to hard ice cream. Twist, the best of both worlds..lol. I don't like any chunks of anything in my ice cream and I prefer a bowl.

Hubs on the other hand will eat any flavor in the freezer and top it with cookies, donuts, or cake, sprinkled heavily with nuts and drizzled also heavily with chocolate syrup. He must have a crunch on the side so always eats chips with it. He's such a hog...

Both Blue Bunny and Publix has one called Banana Split which is so good. It has almost replaced my perennial favorite Black Walnut.

I like cookie dough and vanilla best. I prefer Breyers. When my DD was little she wanted ice cream and all I had was Breyers vanilla. She said she didn't like briars in her ice cream! LOL

No briars in her ice cream! Priceless !!!!!!!!!!

I rarely ever have a few bites. My digestive system has protested violently the last 2 times I tried a few bites. We used to make homemade with fruits in it every Sunday in the summer when we lived in Oklahoma. We had a pool party and BBQ at our pool every Sunday, it was never planned, friends just started showing. Everyone brought drinks and food to throw on the grill. My husband usually had some fantastic meat in the smoker. Those were some wonderful days and memories. The ice cream topper was the best. Unfortunately some of the best friends from those days are no longer with us. Makes those memories so precious and peaceful.

My favorite is Ben & Jerry's Cherry Garcia froyo. If I get real ice cream, I love butter pecan, anything with a vanilla bean base and chunks of things like heath bar or nuts, dark chocolate chunks in it. Some of the new salted caramel flavors are good too. I'm not so crazy about anything with a chocolate base. I love homemade peach ice cream in summer!

There is a place we go to in the summer that is over on the coast. They make all of their ice cream using as many local, organic ingredients as possible. The flavors change depending on what ingredients are available to them. They also make their own waffle cones while you wait. Last summer, they had ice cream made from local peaches that was delicious. Served in one of those fresh, still slightly warm waffle cones, it was elevated to "best ice cream ever!"

Haagen Dazs used to make a macadamia nut brittle that was out of this world. It had a vanilla ice cream base with macadamia nuts, little bits of brittle and swirls of caramel. It was my favorite, but I don't think they make it anymore as I haven't seen it in the store for a long time.

As noted in the tea thread, I also love coffee ice cream even though I don't drink coffee.

Stopped by my local favorite, this week, and had pistachio ice cream. Lots of nuts and yummy!

When I was a girl in central Illinois, Sealtest Dairy made special flavors only in the summer, and my favorites were summer flavors: lemon ice cream and peach ice cream. I really like coffee flavored ice cream but can't eat it in the afternoon or evening as the caffeine will keep me awake. I also love vanilla soft serve custard ice cream.

Chocolate. Any brand. Dark,milk,whatever. With hot fudge. And oreos. And brownies. Or in a milkshake. Chocolate.

I love ice cream of any kind - one of my many addictions! LOL! One of the best I have ever tasted was a fruity ice cream (might have been mulberry) while traveling in Turkey. I would just love "real" peach ice cream. We don't get too many varieties here, which is both a bad and good thing!

The last time I had an ice cream freezer, it was the 'add rock salt and crank, crank, crank'. I thought kids would find it fun and want to be helpful, and they did but it only lasted a few minutes and then we were taking over.

I'm pretty simple with my ice cream. It's Haagen Dazs plain vanilla or chocolate and while I like a cone, I don't usually have them at home. There is one roadside burger place we will stop sometimes on our way back from Portland where their burgers are more like tavern burgers, DH doesn't eat 'fast food'. They make a strawberry ice cream milkshake with real strawberries that's to die for, I treat myself there.

My favorite locally made ice cream is Black Raspberry Marble. my favorite ice cram over the hill is Marianne's White Spumoni. We always have ice cream in our freezer. I always have vanilla on hand which I can use to flavor with topping, add jam to or eat plain. Other than the first 2 in the post I generally like regular grocery store ice cream over the so called "premium" brands.

Favorite soft serve is a little remodeled Foster's Freeze type place. I like the Blackberry sundaes there.

We make our own several times over the summer when we have guests over. My own favorites are lemon custard, peach custard, and melon sorbet. Everybody likes vanilla bean ice cream with an assortment of different topping.

A friend made a rum raisin ice cream that was out of this world.

My favorite summer dessert for guests is homemade ginger cookies and lemon ice cream, sometimes as ice cream sandwiches.

I love ice cream, not matter the weather or time of year! But I rarely allow myself to have it - too many calories. In the summer, while on the Vineyard, I do allow myself to twice have the fabulous Ginger ice cream I can only find up there. It's SO good...

I'm not a big ice cream eater, generally favoring non-fruit flavors and those without nuts, or chunks of anything. We have a wonderful local dairy that makes the most fabulous ice cream, Olympic Mountain, so I do eat some of theirs sometimes.

My favorite ice cream flavor of all time is licorice. I don't eat licorice (but like it okay) but there is something about the cold, creaminess of licorice ice cream that I love. Olympic Mtn used to make black licorice ice cream once in a while, but last year I found it and they'd left out the black dye. I tried some, but it just didn't taste as good when it looked like vanilla.

My favorites are Baskin-Robbins mint chocolate chip, and Haagen Daz coffee. I buy the smallest size I can, and only do it once in a while.

Cappuccino Chunky Chocolate! On an ice cream cone. From Braums in Oklahoma.

I am very unhappy because our town took our Dairy Queen away.No notice,nothing. They are building a new mall and a lot of us have suggestions as to what should be put in there.Looks like most of it will be medical buildings.My favorite was always the Butterfinger Blizzard.

Ever since I was quite young, if we were getting ice cream cones I would choose mint chocolate chip. That was over fifty years ago and I still do :-) If they don't have mint then I generally get dark chocolate, though from time to time I ty something different. But I always come back to my old favourites.

Icecream I get for home is a premium brand we like, since we don't eat a lot. If I'm planning to serve it with something, like fruit or pie, I get vanilla. If I'm getting a flavour, while I prefer their dark chocolate with cherry sauce swirls, DH isn't so fond of it so I more often get coffee with chocolate covered almonds and orange sauce swirls.

The cat prefers vanilla :-)

We made ice cream with the special needs students during their summer program last July. I have a Cuisinart machine. It's actually a good thing I can rarely make room for that insert or I'd make it all the time. We just made plain vanilla... cream, milk, sugar and touch of vanilla... most of the kids weren't very adventurous.

Remember my grandfather making ice cream in an old-fashioned crank machine... ice and rock salt. He had a peach tree in his back yard and we (1 or more of his grandkids) were first in charge of picking some peaches, when they were super ripe. Then the older of us took turns turning the handle. That homemade peach ice cream was divine!

Husband loves grapenut ice cream, black raspberry....kids tried maple bacon ice cream (thumbs up)...fresh peach , home made strawberry ... delish!

In typical Danish style I used to proudly wear the black mustache of licorice ice cream. :) And my DH is also a converted Licorice eater as well. I can't eat any sugar or licorice any more as it wreaks havoc on my hypoglycemia. I miss that more than anything else sweet. I now eat banana berry ice cream made with a yonanas machine but it's not remotely the same thing.

My mom used to say we must have an ice cream gene . All time favorite is Baskin Robbins Jamocha Almond fudge. Starbucks used to make one too haven't seen it in a few years. I love Butter pecan with good Chocolate , Rocky Road when the marshmallow is more of a stream than individual marshmallows. Boysenberry was a favorite but forget who made it . I also try to limit my intake nowadays , a little taste goes along way .

kiseivard, my ice cream maker requires ice and salt, but is electric and can make up to a gallon of fabulous frozen anything. I don't have to freeze the insert in advance.

We've made small batches of peach, strawberry, pecan, mint chocolate chip, and more, one after another.

A favorite of mine is Blue Bunny Coffee Break. It has three different coffee based flavors: vanilla coffee bean, dark roast espresso and coffee liqueur ice cream

Just a couple of days ago the local grocery store had a sale on ice cream "buy two, get three free". Usually I don't avail myself of that sale, because I don't have room for 5 "half-gallons" of ice cream, but this time the sale also applied to specialty flavor pints.

One of the specialty flavors I bought that is a new favorite was Blood Orange Sorbet.

I tasted a really good ice cream that was either coffee or cappuccino at a place called Amy's in Austin, TX. It was delicious. It was getting late and I was afraid to order it so late at night. I don't have a favorite right now. Most ice cream has tasted too sweet lately.

My all time favorite is Blue Bell Fruit Special but they quit making it and only re-release it rarely. I am not crazy about chocolate, especially chocolate pieces, ribbons, etc in ice cream. I usually keep on hand Blue Bell Pistachio Almond, Buttered Pecan and Cherry Vanilla. I do like Baskin Robins Rocky Road, but don't live near a BR so seldom have it.