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Peppermint Candy Ice Cream

Do not use your candy canes for this! Well, you CAN, but you can get plain old peppermint candies, the round kind in Doha, relatively easily, and crust them. Use your Candy Canes for Christmas!

You will not believe how easy this is, and how delicious.

The ingredients for peppermint candy ice cream are wonderfully simple:

Peppermint Candy Ice Cream

3 cups cream
2 cups crushed peppermint candy

You add one cup of the crushed peppermint candy to the cream, put it in the refrigerator overnight. The next day, you stir it, and put it in the ice cream making machine to process. (It will be pink, from the red coloring in the candy)

When it is nearly finished (it is thickened and the machine starts to labor) you put the remaining one cup of crushed peppermint candy in through the tube where you can make additions, allow it to process maybe 30 seconds, then – it is finished.

No, there was no added sugar, there is enough in the candy to make it sweet enough. Because it is pure cream and no additives, it is very very fattening and very very delicious.

In my little ice cream maker, this doesn’t make so much – maybe three cups. Serve in small ramekins, or in the beautiful tea glasses you can find selling in Doha – a little of this ice cream goes a long way, especially if you have other desserts, cookies, sweets along with it. 🙂

December 13, 2009 - Posted by | Christmas, Cross Cultural, ExPat Life, Qatar, Recipes

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