Vanilla Ice cream into bread

The other day I was running low on grocery money, but really wanted some ice cream. I have been occasionally making homemade ice cream and use a simple vanilla ice cream recipe that requires heavy cream, half & half, sugar, salt, and vanilla. Of course, I never have any cream on hand, it’s just not something that is easy to store; and I don’t use it often enough to justify buying it without a purpose. I remembered that I had found a substitution for heavy cream and decided I would try it out. The substitution is basically butter and milk. Well, you may be laughing already, but it sounded brilliant to me. So, I tried it out. I made sure the butter melted and the sugar dissolved and it was all blended together. I poured the concoction into my ice cream maker, and waited 30 minutes. Voila! Delicious vanilla ice cream. Haha, or something like that. It smelled and looked great, but--you guessed it--the butter separated and returned to a solid form, as butter does.

We actually ate half of it, and the kids only kind of noticed that it was a little strange; I had to throw mine out after a few bites that were full of tiny balls of grease. The other half, I decided to try another experiment with. I thought that maybe if I cooked it on the stove the butter would bind with the milk, and all would be rainbows and sunshine. So, that is what I did today.

You guessed it: didn’t work. Oh well, I tried.

I hate to be wasteful and I felt bad throwing out this yummy smelling sweet liquid. So, i came up with one final experiment as a last resort to salvage. I’m not always smart enough to know when to quit and cut my losses. I threw together some more ingredients, without a recipe, and attempted to create some kind of bread out of it.

Good news, it actually turned out pretty decent. Kind of like a white sweet bread…and if you pay close attention you can even taste a hint of vanilla ice cream! I’m not a huge fan of white bread (I think I’ve developed an aversion to its unhealthiness) so I probably won’t add it to my collection of regulars, but the kids sure liked it. I think they get tired of wheat bread, and consider white a treat (kind of like ice cream—2 treats in one!).

Here are the respective recipes (click to follow the link):

Easy Vanilla Ice Cream
Heavy Cream Substitute
Vanilla Ice Cream Bread