My culinary aspirations have, once again, been dashed by failing to pre-read the recipe

[conuly]

I was going to make strawberry ice cream as my inaugural ice cream, but the strawberries in this recipe have to macerate for two hours, and that's entirely too long.

So instead I'll make chocolate ice cream. Should I make it with added cinnamon or not?

Poll #24261 Ice cream question

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Well?

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YES!
31 (73.8%)

NO!
11 (26.2%)

Once the bowl refreezes I'll make the strawberry ice cream, unless people eat all the strawberries first. If they do, I'll make either vanilla, ginger, or cinnamon ice cream.

Poll #24262 Another ice cream question

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Which one?

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Vanilla
4 (10.3%)

Ginger
27 (69.2%)

Cinnamon
8 (20.5%)

Something else, I'll share a recipe in the comments
0 (0.0%)

I do ultimately want to get a second bowl already, but I've reluctantly agreed to wait, or at least until I can sneak it into the house under the cover of night.

Comments

[neotoma]

There used to be a little cafe that I'd go to that made their own ice cream. They had a flavor called Red Hot Elvis which was cinnamon with *just* enough cayenne to give it a kick. You might try that.

I've got the William-Sonoma cookbook for ice cream, one of the better recipes is raspberry ice cream, especially if your can find enough black raspberries to make it with those, instead of red raspberries.

[redbird]

Cinnamon by itself can be overwhelming; a long-vanished place on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn had a cinnamon vanilla that was very nice indeed.

[readerjane]

I love both chocolate and cinnamon, but believe they each deserve to be the star of their own show.

[nocowardsoul]

I always say yes to cinnamon.

[dorchadas]

I'm really curious to see how the ginger ice cream will turn out.

[semperfiona]

Does your strawberry ice cream recipe macerate the berries with a couple tablespoons of balsamic vinegar? Because we have a recipe that does that, and it's AMAZING!

[conuly]

No. I actually don't like balsamic vinegar so we don't have any in the house.

[conuly]

I've had ginger ice cream before and generally love it. Most recipes call for crystalized ginger, though, so I can't do it until I get some.