Chai-Spiced Milk Chocolate Ice Cream

Remember when I posted about this cookbook I got at Williams-Sonoma?  Well this weekend I attempted my second ice cream recipe from it.  I made chai-spiced milk chocolate ice cream!  You have to steep the milk and cream with star anise, whole cloves, cardamom pods, peppercorns, and cinnamon sticks.  You also have to chop chocolate to use (I used Ghirardelli).  It turned out to be quite a tasty treat!  I think that the spices made it seem more like a winter treat than a summer one (which was perfect because we're still buried in snow...).

Thursday Text: Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones

Our next book club topic is cookbooks.  We got this one from Williams-Sonoma for Christmas to use with our ice cream machine.  Sweet Cream and Sugar Cones is a recipe book from Bi-Rite Creamery in San Francisco.  I'm excited to try some of the recipes - salted caramel ice cream sounds fabulous.  Maybe as a Valentine's Day treat?