Mom's Delicious Banana Creme Pie Ice Cream

My family loves this delicious "Banana Creme Pie Ice Cream". You'll need an ice cream machine for this recipe.

Ingredients:

4 large egg's yokes
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup whole milk
2/3 cup sugar
2 large ripe bananas; mashed
1 Teaspoon banana extract
1/4 cup pre-cooked broken pieces of pie crust

Directions:

Change your beater to whisk on your mixer.

Place in the mixing bowl the egg yokes and sugar.

Whisk until light and fluffy; like whip cream.

In a small pot add milk, heavy cream, extract and mashed banana.

Constantly whisking bring to just before it starts to boil but you see steam releasing from the mixture.

Turn off heat.

While constantly whisking add one ladle of egg and sugar mixture slowly until you have added all of the mixture into the milk.

Return to high heat constantly whisking and cook for 5 minutes.

Remove from heat and place in fridge for 1 hour or until the mixture has cooled.

Pour the mixture into the ice cream machine and turn on. Usually takes about 45 minutes for the machine to make the ice cream.

Add pie crust turn ice cream machine on run just long enough to blend in chunks of pie crust about 45 to 55 seconds.

Put ice cream in an airtight container and set in the freezer for at least 30 minutes to  1 hour.

Serve.

Frozen Chocolate and Coconut Covered Bananas

Kids will love dipping bananas in melted chocolate and rolling them in shredded coconut to make this tasty frozen treat.

Ingredients

4 large ripe bananas, peeled and cut into thirds crosswise

3/4 cup semisweet or bittersweet chocolate chips, melted

1/4 cup shredded coconut

Directions

Line a baking sheet with parchment or wax paper. Insert a popsicle stick into the cut end of each banana half. 

Cover each piece of banana with melted chocolate using a rubber spatula and sprinkle with shredded coconut (Reheat chocolate, as needed, to keep it melted.) 

Place the bananas on the baking sheet and freeze until frozen, about 2 hours.

Tips:

To melt chocolate, microwave on Medium for 1 minute. 

Stir, then continue microwaving on Medium, stirring every 20 seconds, until melted. Or place chocolate in the top of a double boiler over hot, but not boiling, water. 

Stir until melted.