Maple Bacon Ice Cream

So tonight my dad and I had dinner at the Mohawk Club. The amazing bartender Jeff is also quite the ice cream maker, and has been experimenting with different ice cream flavors for quite some time. Tonight he gave me a sneak preview of his newest creation, maple bacon flavored ice cream.

He typically uses the Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream recipes, which is a sweet cream base of:
2 whole eggs
2 cups heavy cream
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup whole milk
Mixed together in an ice cream machine.

He has previously made garlic and pumpkin ice cream, which for the garlic he poached 8 cloves of garlic, and for the pumpkin he used a can of pumpkin mix (in addition to the sweet cream base).

All of his ice cream creations have been super delicious, but I must say that the maple bacon and the pumpkin have been my favorite! The maple bacon ice cream tasted like a traditional vanilla ice cream, but with the essence of both maple syrup and bacon flavors. The pumpkin (probably my favorite) tasted like a lighter version of pumpkin pie, which I really enjoyed (and I don't even like pumpkin).

Maple-Bacon Ice Cream

Pumpkin Ice Cream