ICE CREAM BREAD [OR CAKE[ REDUX (OR, IF AT FIRST YOU DON'T SUCCEED) 1 SEPTEMBER 2023
HAAGEN-DAZS™ ice cream is on BOGO this week, so Neal brought home a variety of flavors. None of which, unfortunately, was 16 ounces. So I decided to mix the 14 ounces of Mint Chip with two ounces of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough . . . Weighing station . . . Imagine my surprise when: 1) the Mint Chip ice cream was NOT green; and 2) the 14-ounce carton of ice cream weighed only 11.5 ounces. The first was easy to fix: I just added some green food coloring. The second, however, meant that the mint flavor was diluted by the 4.5 ounces of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream I had added; I SHOULD have added some mint extract, but thought of that too late. [Hand] mixing station . . . . . . flour & baking powder into ice cream . . . (Because the humidity was so high - another rain storm came thru - I added a bit more baking powder than called for.) . . . a nice mint green color . . . . . . chocolate jimmies on top and into the oven for 45 minutes . . . Meanwhile, we heard Miss Emmie barking up a storm and found her lying by the barrier, staring at what she THOUGHT was me . . . . . . sitting in the lanai, as I so often am, reading, and SHE WANTED TO BE THERE, TOO. I had to go outside and SHOW her that I was NOT on the couch; as she's deaf, knocking on the window or calling her would have been an exercise in futility. Silly Girl. . . . to come out looking like this . . . . . . and the inside . . . The color was a lot brighter than I thought it'd be! The taste was stronger than the DULCE DE LECHE ICE CREAM BREAD [CAKE]; I think if I'd had 16 ounces of Mint Chip ice cream, it would have been perfect. And the salt helped bring out the flavor, too. The extra baking powder made the bread/cake less dense, but it didn't make it rise more than the previous version had.
THE RECIPE I USED

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