Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Orange Sherbet and Chocolate Chip Ice Cream are a delicious combination.  My two
favorite Ice Cream flavors are indeed Orange Sherbet and Chocolate Chip.  If you have
never tried the two flavors, try it sometime, the orange flavor tastes so good with the
chocolate.

Utensils:

Kitchen Scissors
One Large Mixing Bowl
One Wire Whisk
Three or Four Large Spoons
Two Large Bowls with lids (place the bowls in the freezer while making the vanilla custard)
Measuring Cups and Measuring Spoons
One Large Cooking Pan
Kitchen Candy Thermometer
Egg Separator (optional)
Freezer Container (optional)

Ingredients:

1 1/4 Cups Sugar
8 Egg Yolks
3 Cups 2% Milk
1/2 Teaspoon Vanilla Extract
Dash of Salt
1 Cup Heavy Cream
1 Package Mini Chocolate Chips (found on the baking isle at the grocery store)
     *1/2 Cup Mini Chocolate Chips (add the whole bag if you want to)

Directions:

Place the eight egg yolks in the mixing bowl, grab your wire whisk and mix the eggs yolks until blended.  Slowly, slowly, add the sugar to the egg yolks, while beating the mixture at the same time.  When all of the sugar is incorporated into the egg mixture, continue beating the mixture until it reaches the ribbon stage on the wire whisk.  This takes about eight or so minutes.

While you are doing this stage of the ice cream process, then at the same time, in a large cooking pan, combine the milk, salt and heavy cream. Place the milk mixture over medium heat.  When the egg mixture reaches the ribbon stage, while still stiring, slowly add some of the hot custard to the egg mixture until you have added about half of the custard mix to the egg mixture.  Pour the egg mixture into the rest of the custard mixture.

Cook mixture over medium heat until the mixture reaches 170 degrees on a candy thermometer. Take it off of the heat and add the vanilla to it, stir.

Pour the custard in the large bowl that has been in the freezer.  Place the bowl into the refrigerator until the mixture is completely cold.  About three hours.

Once your custard is cooled, plug in your Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker.  Place the freezer container (that should always be in the freezer), onto the machine, place the paddle attachment into the middle part of the freezer container, switch the machine to the on position, and pour in the custard.

In around twenty to twenty-five minutes, you will have soft serve ice cream.  When the ice cream is done, turn the machine to the off position, take out the paddle attachment. Pour the chocolate chip ice cream into a freezer container, and add the mini chocolate chips.  Let the ice cream stay in the freezer for six to eight hours.

Enjoy your ice cream in a bowl, or with ice cream cones.