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Recipe: Vanilla Ice Cream with Chocolate Chunks and Candy Canes

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Just in time for the holidays too. After borrowing my friend’s ice cream machine I decided that the first batch of ice cream I would make would include a classic “Chocolate Chip Ice Cream” kind of feel but with the added twist of ground up candy canes for the season.

Needless to say it was full of the awesome.

Now the ice cream maker came with its own book of recipes to use… so for starters I figured good old fashioned vanilla would work…
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Sweet and simple.

Right “good old fashioned vanilla”… I added a few mix-ins in the form of ground up candy canes and broken down chocolate truffles…
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Recipe: (Gluten Free) Molten Lava Cake Variations

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20121218-195252.jpgIn a previous post I talked about my attempt of turning the molten lava cake recipe into something more cupcake-y… and then how I tried to adapt the same recipe for friends of mine that is gluten-free.

But why should I stop at the traditional molten lava cake? I mean there are other bags of “chips” that I had readily accessible that are outside of the semi-sweet chocolate vein… including but not limited to butterscotch (which I have used for the Butterbeer Cupcake recipe), cinnamon (in hopes of creating a chocolate / cinnamon cupcake adaptation), white chocolate… and others.

So that is why in this post I decided to really take it another step and create other variations of the molten lava cake recipe by using first the white chocolate chips and the later the butterscotch chips.
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