Sounds fabulous! Do you have a recipe for the ice cream? Now that summers here, I’d love to try it.

Louise, I got the recipe from Country Living magazine, it's super easy because the custard isn't cooked.

https://www.countryliving.com/food-drinks/recipes/a3405/raspberry-cheesecake-ice-cream-recipe-clv0610/

I pureed the berries in the blender, poured those through a sieve, then rinsed the blender and added the ice cream ingredients. Blended it all some more, put it in the fridge to cool in quart canning jars. It worked like a charm and as I mentioned, was extremely easy. Delicious too!

Annie

Thanks! Since summer finally hit, I’ve been anxious to take out the ice cream machine. This sounds unique and company worthy

Grandson has asked to make ice cream, so will make this since it sounds delicious.

Grandson n0 2 will love making that!

Cheesecake ice cream sounds interesting! I need to remember to try that once I have more room in my freezer. :)

Your raspberry ice cream sounds great it is now on my To Do List.

Don’t you just love Country Living and Southern Living mags.

Wow, does that look like a great dessert, Annie! And it accommodated everyone's specific dietary needs (except for, you know, those hard chocolate chunks in the ice cream) HA! That so made me smile, cause it could have been my mom. We sometimes say "no filters" anymore and laugh. It all works, doesn't it:)? I would have had everything, and "helped" others if need be.

Cathy in SWPA

As much as I love dark chocolate, and a dark chocolate flourless torte is my favorite dessert of all time, that ice cream is making me so hungry for homemade! I'd have put chocolate chunks in raspberry too! What a perfect accompaniment to each other and a lovely way to fulfill everyone's dietary needs : )

I've only used an ice cream maker that required ice and salt and it died ages ago, is yours something like this: Cuisinart ICE-70 Electronic Ice Cream Maker ?

Looks wonderful, I love homemade ice cream. I am like your mother though, I don't like hard chunks of chocolate in ice cream, but I would love it if they were somewhat soft. Do you think if I made ganache into small bits, do you think they would freeze as hard?

Annie, I have the Kitchenaid attachment and I love it. I think it’s likely the same size as yours. We store it in the freezer and it’s ready whenever i need it. Although, need and ice cream, is kind of an oxymoron!

Instead of chips why not swirl in Nutella or Hershey's Chocolate when the ice cream is finished?

That ice cream looks amazing. An easy recipe is to make a vanilla ice cream, add dark chocolate chunks and swirl in raspberry jam for the last couple of turns of the machine.

2many, I have this one: https://www.cuisinart.com/discontinued/ice_cream/ice-20/

It's discontinued now, but I got a great sale, maybe Black Friday, I don't remember, but I bought myself one, my Mother one, Elery one. Now that Elery and I are married, I have two, LOL. It works really well, I've been impressed with it, and I imagine the newer ones would be as reliable, as would the KitchenAid attachment, which I don't have and haven't used because, well, I have two Cuisinarts. (grin)

Nancy, I still think ganache or fudge is going to get pretty hard when frozen, although certainly not as hard as those chips.

nancyofnc, the nutella version sounds really, really good. I love Nutella...

shirl, I actually get an email from countryliving.com, it's the first contact I've ever had with them and they have some really good ideas. Bad for my diet, good for my menu. (grin)

Islay, make sure the grandson shares with you, this is too good for a kid to eat all by themselves!

PM, you and are are the same about freezer space.

Louise, the above statement about freezer space is why the insert doesn't get stored in the freezer. It was actually in there until we put an entire beef, a whole hog and 3 deer in the freezer(s), then something had to go. So I canned what I could, things like cherries and blueberries, and had to remove things like the ice cream maker inserts. I still just barely packed it all in, LOL, and now I'm making space for those 20 ducks I'm raising. Summer's coming, though, and ice cream might have to be a more regular occurrence.

sushipup, I did add the chocolate right at the end, but a swirl of jam would be a really good idea. Then those people who like plain vanilla, could scoop around the fruit addition if they chose to. I did have one daughter wishing for vanilla so she could make a root beer float, but she was just out of luck this time, I told her to go to the A&W, it's less than 10 miles away. It would make a good option, though.

Cathy, it met everyone's dietary needs except the lactose intolerant one, and she just ate the cake, so it worked. Mother is the pickiest eater alive, Elery says it's far easier to list the food she likes, because that's only about five things. And she does not hesitate to tell you that the beef is too well done, that the turkey isn't crispy enough or that the chocolate in the ice cream is too hard. That's OK, she's still here to complain about it, so I smile and nod. You are sure right about "no filter", though, LOL, and I'm glad it's not just MY Mother.

Annie

I,love th comment about no filter. My Mom is like that. She says whatever I on her mind. I just cringe.

Oh, Annie, I missed the lactose free part of the cake. If it's nut free too, could you share the recipe/link?

I'm laughing at how similar all our moms are (yep, no filters, cringing), and grateful still all together. Elery's comment literally made me laugh out loud. My mom just always says "needs salt":)

Tangent -- My mom has been fixated on area of her garden, so I dug up a flat of sweet woodruff, grabbed some breakfast sandwiches for my dad, went over in my goodwill t-shirt that said I had run a race I hadn't, made sure I had holes in acceptable places of my jeans, planted, watered, crawled through hemlocks to move artificial plants, weeded, had sweat pooling, dirty face and hands but got it finished in time so I could get home to mix bread. As I was loading up, my mom started to fluff my hair and said, "Do you think you need to get haircut?"

Killing me HA!

A "smile and nod" moment, Annie:)

Cathy in SWPA

OK, Cathy, that tangent was hysterical and would be exactly what my Mother would do, ROFL.

The recipe is here, and it's so easy. I bake it in a springform pan so it's easy to remove, it's very moist and dense and extremely rich, you only want a tiny bit, especially if you add ganache. I have to use "fake" butter for her, but real butter is better, as always:

https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/52718/flourless-chocolate-cake-ii/

Annie

Can you see all of our moms, Annie? It just makes me laugh (smh)!

Okay, I'm going to make this when the crew is all here for my parent's 65th. It would be perfect! Do you have a special semi-sweet chocolate you like that is dairy free? I used to use ghirardelli chips and then they started to add milk. Now, I've been using Trader Joes chips. Haven't looked at bars. Also, I use that Earth Balance for the fake butter:)

Thanks so much -- you're the best!

CathyinSWPA

Annie: we made this ice cream tonight. IT IS SO DELICIOUS! We made batter for two quarts and will make the second quart tomorrow. We are thinking about adding a chocolate ganashe at the end as mentioned in prior thread about raspberry ice cream. Thank you for sharing this recipe!

Cathy, I really like the Guittard chocolate, and it's gluten free too, so double bonus! I can't get it in my small town, though, so I have to stock up and plan ahead. It is manufactured in a plant that also does dairy products, but fortunately we only have the "lactose intolerant" issue, not so allergic that even contact is an issue. Trader Joe's used to be diary free and now it's not. Enjoy Life has a dairy free/gluten free chocolate chips but it's just OK plus it's expensive. Costco's Kirkland brand has some diary free dark chocolate and Baker's semi-sweet bars are also dairy free, or were last time I checked. Scharffen Berger is now available at Target, I think, and I also believe it's dairy free, it used to be. So any of those options that are available to you are good, but I like Guittard best.

Kate, I'm glad you liked that ice cream. How could it be bad, cream cheese and raspberries, LOL, but it's easy too, so that's an added extra. I should make more. No I shouldn't...

Annie

Aw, Annie, thanks so much. Gulp, I'm going to have to go check my TJ chips. So glad you pointed that out. And will look at your other recs too -- SIL coming in a few weeks.

You may get a kick out of this, but I ended up emailing myself this thread (recipe for cake), the cucumber relish and your salsa recipe and subject line says "recipes Annie" HA! I keep losing stuff. In fact, I moved all my receipts and left myself a note in the drawer to tell me where I moved them!

Kate, I love it when people try a recipe and report back!

Thanks again, Annie. Will email myself:)

CathyinSWPA

Good luck with that visit, Cathy, enjoy it.

Aww, now I'm flattered. I'm sure Grandma would be tickled to know that people are still sving her recipes, like that sweet relish. I'm thinking that putting them on the internet is a good thing, at least when I'm gone if my girls want a recipe, they can tell Alexa to find it for them. (grin)

Annie

Cathy, I also email myself links to the posts with recipes... I have probably 20+ of them now (didn't know anyone else did that! How cool is that?!) I finally realized I couldn't type them out as fast as I sent them so I created a folder called 'recipes' and put them in those : )

Grandmas are the best, Annie! If only Alexa could actually, you know, like scrub a toilet, I might be on board:)

2ManyDiversions -- And then if they're really good, we can print and put in plastic those plastic sleeves WITH notes:)))))!

CathyinSWPA

Cathy, go ahead, make fun, but hey, I just got around to printing your strawberry cake and yep, it's in a lovely plastic sleeve! I will never not be able to read it due to stray batter! LOL! Oh, and I put your screen name on it too : ) I know recipes I read here are gonna be good, so I go ahead and print when I've a moment. No need really to test 'em!

...ok, yeah, sometimes I pull off the sleeves and make notes (like: "Delicious!")

Now I'm gonna print Annie's ice cream recipe, and hope it's not another year before I can have room for that ice cream maker she's talked me into!

Another report: made the second batch of ice cream layering/folding in heavily drizzled chocolate sauce. We all thought it was good too but unneeded.