Moose Tracks Ice Cream

Moose Tracks Ice Cream is truly indulgent, and this extra creamy homemade recipe is right over the top. Made with lots of real cream, rich chocolate fudge, and peanut butter cups, it's gonna make summer extra awesome.

For once we're having hints of a real summer here in Scotland with weeks of consistent warm weather. It's gorgeous. It's beautiful. It's everything I asked for. Except my house isn't designed for this. Whatever the temperature is outside is the temperature in my kitchen, something I haven't had to deal with since we lived in Hawaii. But I've been trying to manifest more sunshine for years, so I'm grateful.

There's only one antidote to warm weather sans AC, and that's ice cream. Whether it comes on a stick covered in chocolate, smashed between two cookies, or dripping its way out of a waffle cone, I say you're allowed to have some every day. There's only so much sweating a person can do without being rewarded with frozen sugar and cream. Weave some magick into your flavor choices, chocolate for romance, mint chocolate chip for prosperity, strawberry for abundance. Go wild. Get creative. And most of all, have a damn good time.

What makes Moose Tracks Ice Cream so awesome?

There's really only one right answer to what makes any ice cream awesome, and that's a high fat content. The richer the base, the creamier the ice cream, so more heavy or double cream always makes a richer ice cream. And I may have gone a bit over the top with this one, using both double and single cream and no milk in this recipe. And if you want to get technical, this is a frozen custard since there are eggs involved. This is also sometimes known as French Ice Cream. To me, it's just freakin' awesome. When it's this rich, one really good scoop is enough.

And this, of course, is not just any ice cream. It's Moose Tracks Ice Cream which means there's a ripple of chocolate fudge along with lots of mini peanut butter cups to really amp up the awesomeness factor. Whether you eat this scooped onto a cone, out of a pretty dessert dish, or spooned straight from the container, every bite is gonna be unbelievably delicious.

Magical Properties of Peanut Butter

Peanuts grow underground and peanut butter is known for being sticky, so that right there tells you a bit about how you can use this ingredient in your witchcraft. Peanut butter can be used in spells for grounding and stability, as well as holding things together. It can also call in prosperity, wealth, opportunities, and energy. Tied to the planet Jupiter, it's energy is optimistic and expansive. Consider adding it to a spell when you need your money to stick around for a while.

For more on the magical properties of the ingredients in this recipe, check the Kitchen Magick page.

Ingredients

Here's everything you'll need to make this recipe.

• Cream - you'll need both heavy or double cream as well as single cream or half and half
• Vanilla - extract or paste
• Eggs
• Sugar
• Salt
• Chocolate fudge sauce - store bought is fine
• Mini peanut butter cups - the tiny ones that come unwrapped, not the bigger mini ones in the foil wrappers

Tips for making Moose Tracks Ice Cream

Making homemade ice cream is a bit of a process, but the results are out of this world, so I'm willing to go for it. Even the best premium ice cream doesn't taste as good as this. It's not something I'd do every day, but it's worth it for an occasional treat.

First off, make sure that you know how to work your ice cream maker. Each one is different, so you may need to put parts of it in the freezer for a day before churning your ice cream. Just make sure you know how much prep time your machine needs and that you've got that covered.

Making the custard

Then you'll whisk together both types of cream and the sugar until the sugar is dissolved and the cream starts to steam or you see tiny bubbles forming around the edge. Take the pan off the heat.

In another bowl, you'll whisk together your eggs, then slowly drizzle in some of your hot cream mixture while you continue whisking. You'll want to slowly work in about a cup of the cream into the egg mixture to slowly raise the temperature, then you can add the egg mixture to the saucepan with the rest of the cream, whisking as you pour it in.

Cook your custard over medium low heat, stirring regularly until thickened. Be careful not to let it boil or the custard will separate. Once it's thick enough to coat your spoon, take it off the heat and stir in the vanilla extract. Let this mixture sit on the counter for at least an hour to cool. Cover it with plastic wrap, pressing the plastic right down onto the surface of the custard, then chill it in the fridge for at least 4 hours. I usually do this in the evening, then leave it in the fridge overnight and churn it in the morning.

Churning your ice cream

Once everything is properly chilled, you'll pour the mixture into your ice cream machine and churn it according to your machine instructions. Mine takes about 25 minutes. In this time, the custard will freeze and expand into thick and creamy ice cream. Then all that's left to do is swirl in your mix-ins. I like to add a bit at a time into the final container, then swirl in the chocolate and peanut butter cups, adding a bit more with each addition so it's swirled throughout.

Then you just have to wait for the whole thing to freeze, which is obviously the worst part.

Summer will be truly awesome if you have homemade Moose Tracks Ice Cream in the freezer. Get on it, kids.

Looking for more awesome ice cream recipes? Try this Milky Way Ice Cream or some easy No Churn Ice Cream.

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Recipe slightly adapted from 12 Tomatoes.