Cookie dough! Let’s talk about the day I found out my husband doesn’t like cookie dough. Yeahhhh, crazy. There I was making chocolate cookies like the stellar newlywed bride I was trying so hard to be and I offered him a beater. You know, all caked in cookie dough with lots of chocolate chips. I didn’t even bother to knock off the extra batter. (read: awessssome wife) One for me one for him. Totally selfless. Or half way selfless anyway. This isn’t a socialist marriage, I couldn’t give up both beaters. So I hand him this beater and he looks at it like it’s a scorpion. Um, okay… apparently my husband doesn’t like cookie dough. How is that even possible??? world shatters Oh wait, he doesn’t like cookie dough? Well, more for me! world un-shatters and happy dance commences So now I lick both of the beaters. It’s a sad day when you realize your husband has strange taste buds that don’t appreciate the joy of cookie dough, but I can’t complain about 2-beater licking for the rest of my life. But I still try to take into account his likes and dislikes so when I made this chocolate cookie dough ice cream I left the cookie dough out of half of it. I know, awesome wife award. And the whole point of this ice cream anyway is to get the best of both worlds. He is convinced that dessert must be chocolate and when it comes to ice cream, he never orders anything but that and mint chocolate chip. But I love caramel cashew. And butter pecan. And salted caramel pretzel (heaven in my mouth). And cookie dough. I really love chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream. Oh and I should add that I’m impatient when waiting for cookie dough ice cream to freeze. As in, I don’t wait at all and take it out of the freezer half way through so that I can photograph it and get to the eating part. So that sort of explains why the ice cream looks so melty in these pictures. If you have even a shred of patience (which is about 10 times what I have) then you might be able to let the ice cream actually harden all of the way so you can enjoy it in all of it’s frozen glory.
