Moose Tracks Ice Cream

Homemade Moose Tracks Ice Cream is worth all of the effort involved in making the
delicious frozen treat.  I use an electric Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker when I make
homemade ice cream of any kind.  There are many recipes for homemade Moose
Tracks Ice Cream to be looked up, so this is how that I make the ice cream.

Utensils Needed:

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

Ingredients Needed: 

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 Jar of your favorite Chocolate Sauce
1 Package of mini Reese Cups candy (cut into bite size pieces)

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.  Stir the mixture every so often as it is cooking.  When your custard reaches 170 degrees, 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 vanilla 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 vanilla 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.  Stir the bize size reese cup candy into the ice cream mixture.

Pour the Moose Tracks ice cream into another freezer container.  Place the container in the freezer for three hours.  Remove the Moose Tracks ice cream and add spoons of the chocolate sauce, stirring slightly to create ripples of the chocolate sauce into the ice cream mixture.

Place the Moose Tracks ice cream back into the freezer for another three to four hours.  Serve the ice cream in a bowl or on ice cream cones.