Quick note.

So, I really like Ben and Jerry's Cherry Garcia Ice cream, so I thought I would take a stab at making some. It turned out pretty good, but I need to do some more research on the best chocolate to use. I used a decent mini chip, which turned out fine, but I think I could find a better, high fat content dark chocolate...Anyway, I used a basic sweet cream frozen custard recipe, and at the the end of the churning (we have a Cuisinart Ice cream maker with the frozen bowls) I threw in about a half a cup of mini chips (semi-sweet), and a jar of the dark morello cherries (drained) from Trader Joe's.

INGREDIENTS:

1 cup heavy cream 3 cups half-and-half cream 8 egg yolks

1 cup white sugar 1/8 teaspoon salt

DIRECTIONS:

1.	Pour the heavy cream and half-and-half cream into a heavy saucepan, place over medium-low heat, and heat until barely simmering, stirring frequently. Turn the heat down to low.
2.	Whisk together the egg yolks, sugar, and salt in a large bowl until thoroughly combined.
3.	Slowly pour about 1/2 cup of hot cream mixture into the egg yolk mixture, whisking constantly. Repeat three times more, whisking thoroughly before adding each additional 1/2 cup of hot cream to the egg yolk mixture. Pour the egg yolk mixture back into the saucepan with the remaining hot cream, and whisk constantly over medium-low heat until the mixture thickens and will coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 8 minutes. Do not let mixture boil.
4.	Pour the ice cream base into a bowl and allow to cool for about 20 minutes; place in refrigerator and chill overnight. The next day, pour into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's directions. Remove the ice cream, pack into a covered container, and freeze for 2 hours or overnight before serving. So, once this basic recipe is almost done churning, add cherries and chocolate. If you add fruit too early to ice cream it will become rock hard when you serve it.  And here it is: Not the best pic I know... Buon Appetito!