Ice Cream Flavors

[tiger_spot]

Recently, brooksmoses saw an ice cream maker somewhere-or-other and decided it needed to come live with us. So we've made a batch or two of ice cream -- the Mexican chocolate from the included recipe booklet, with chocolate, cinnamon, and cayenne, is quite tasty -- and determined that the custard base is an excellent base but ice cream flavors we can buy at the store are boring.

Help us think of new ones.

So far, the best idea is andres_s_p_b's suggestion of Victorian Sexuality: it looks like vanilla, but isn't. We're thinking white chocolate with either just a hint of peppermint extract or a rather larger quantity of almond extract; macadamia nuts might be a nice touch. I would also like to do a chai flavor.

What's good in ice cream that Ben & Jerry's doesn't already do?

Comments

[snippy]

The two best I've made were banana (basically, just bananas, sugar, heavy cream, and a bit of lemon) and lime ice cream (reduced limeade--boil to a syrup then cool--plus heavy cream). The canonical family recipe for ice cream is lemon-buttermilk which is also very good.