we all scream for ice cream

Thanks to gift cards, extreme Macy's sales, coupons and major anticipation for warmer weather 

this sleek and compact beauty ended up on our kitchen counter this weekend.

We bought it Saturday night and picked up the ingredients on the way home from Macy's.

To our dismay, the bowl/container thingy has to be completely frozen before making

the first thing of ice cream... so we had to wait until Sunday afternoon :(

To be honest, several times throughout Patrick's sermon my mind drifted 

to homemade ice cream... what mix in I should try... gelato, yogurt, vanilla, mint?

I felt kinda bad until he told me he had been dreaming about it all day as well!

Luckily, this little machine whips up 2 quarts of ice cream in as little as 20 minutes

so it did not take long for the cream, sugar and vanilla to thicken and 

have our kitchen full of that Graeter's refreshing and icy scent.

On Sunday, I made vanilla ice cream with chocolate chip cookie chunks as the mix-in.

Tonight I made Vanilla Yogurt Ice Cream with strawberries... 

They both were tasty and so easy to make... the yogurt one is a little healthier :)

 

while waiting for it to thicken, I chopped up some strawberries as the mix-in:

so easy and delicious!

Vali got a little taste on her nose and loved it: