Cinnamon Ice Cream

Looking back over the recipes I made last month, I realize I made lots of things with cinnamon in them.  Strange.  One Sunday I had some leftover whipping cream so I decided to make homemade ice cream.  It was a little stormy outside so I felt like something "fall-like."  I looked up some ice cream on my All Recipes app and found this cinnamon one.  A review mentioned that they had added some chewy oatmeal cookies to compliment this and so I did the same.

Cinnamon Ice Cream

Ingredients:

1 c. white sugar
1 1/2 c. half and half
2 eggs, beaten
1 c. heavy cream
1 t. vanilla
2 t. cinnamon

Directions:

Stir together sugar and half and half.  Cook on medium low.  When it begins to simmer, remove from heat.  Whisk 1/2 into eggs quickly.  Pour egg mixture back into saucepan.  Stir in heavy cream.  Continue cooking over medium low, stirring constantly until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a metal spoon.  Remove from heat and whisk in vanilla and cinnamon.  Cool.  Put in fridge for several hours.  Freeze in electric ice cream machine.  Serve with oatmeal cookies!

In my test kitchen:

Some reviews said that it was too sweet and to reduce the sugar.  So I took mine down to 3/4 c. and it was great.  I also think 2 t. cinnamon is very over-powering.  So I reduced the cinnamon to 1 t. Perfect.

I think this recipe would even be good served with apple crisp or break up the oatmeal cookies into large chunks and while the ice cream is still soft, mix them into the ice cream.

~Happy Cooking!