Day 8: Ice cream

I love ice cream.  Love it.  Probably my favorite food ever.  And fortunately, I grew up in a family where it wasn't uncommon for my mom to throw a tub of ice cream, chocolate and caramel sauce, whipped cream and sprinkles on the dinner table and announce that it was sundae night for dinner.  Best.  Nights.  Ever.  My mom also started a tradition in our neighborhood of getting together for hot fudge brownie sundaes once a year.  We were too cheap to pay for the sundaes at the Wichita Riverfest so my mom made them instead, for a fraction of the cost.  Genius.  I carried on the ice-cream-for-dinner tradition when I lived with Dan and Connie (best roommates of my life) in Kansas City.  Dan would just laugh as he'd wake up (he worked 3rd shift) and find me sitting at the bar eating to my little heart's content right out of the Blue Bell half gallon container.  Oh Blue Bell...

Anyway, ice cream's a big part of my life.  People in Europe don't understand ice cream the way we do as Americans.  They have fancy gelato, which is also delicious, but they serve it in these teensy weensy cups that cost an arm and a leg.  I don't want a 5 euro spoonful of gelato, I want a big 'ol half gallon of Blue Bell Butter Pecan, or Braum's Chocolate Almond!  Alas, that is impossible here, but probably much better for me.

However, I made an awesome discovery today.  The only "big" ice cream you can buy here is in a long rectangular block that you cut into squares.  It says it serves 12 people...which means about 3.  When I'm really desperate, I buy these blocks of ice cream, but since they're not that great as they are, I buy lots of toppings.  Well today, I happened to remember that I have a wee bit of sacred funfetti mix leftover from some funfetti truffles I made a while back.  So I thought to myself, what would happen if I put a little of that in the blender with the vanilla ice cream and a little bit of cream (because why mess with milk when you have cream available)?  Heaven.  That's what happens.  It was so smooth...so creamy...so funfetti-licious...I made it for dessert for dinner too!  Yago approved as well.

As I mentioned before, I don't have all the tools and fancy gadgets here in Spain I used to have in the states, but I've sure become good at being innovative!

And as for the picture today...I had it all planned that I would make this wonderful concoction and then take pictures of it to put on here, but I was so overtaken by the smell of the delicious goodness that I totally forgot and just dove right in and then had nothing left to take a picture of.  Oops.