in the form of cake batter ice cream! I love Cold Stone Creamery - especially, their cake batter ice cream. If you've never been to a Cold Stone Creamery, try to go at least once in your life. The ice cream is homemade, chewy, and absolutely heaven in a cup. They have a huge marble slab where you can select items to mix in your ice cream. My personal favorite is chocolate ice cream with hot fudge, brownies, and chocolate chips. It's been proven to be a home remedy for PMS, just ask Hubby.

I've often wondered how they figured out to get that taste of cake batter into ice cream. It truly tastes like your licking out a vanilla cake bowl - undescribeable goodness! Since I gotz the internetz, I started my frantic search today for the secret of this recipe and I think I found it. Here's what we did:

Cake Batter Ice Cream

1 cup of whole milk
2 cups of heavy cream
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1 tsp. of pure vanilla (remember, you can also take swigs to lighten up the process)
2/3 cup of cake mix (sift it to get out the lumps, and you can use more according to taste)

I had tons of heavy cream in the fridge so I chose to use three cups of heavy cream and veto the whole milk. After all, ice cream is not meant to be fat free, that's just un-American. I can't do that.

I mixed all the items together into a runny, creamy goodness, and then stuck it in my ice cream maker. If you want the cardio version, you can follow along on my previous recipe where you shake it up in a bag. I already worked my pecs the other day so I was ready to let the ice cream maker earn in it's place in the cupboard.

Please make sure to read and be aware of the ingredients on your cake mix. Cold Stone Creamery had to yank their cake batter ice cream last year due to Salmonella concerns. Evidently, their version contained some egg products and some cake mixes might have the same. My family lives life on the edge - we even east raw cookie dough for chriminy sakes, but some people might not be so daring. I don't want to be blamed for anyone's bloody farts or diarrhea, K?THXBAI.

If you have a great ice cream recipe, please share. I'm totally in the mood for ice cream and I'm looking for some tried and true recipes.