7 Layer Bar Ice Cream

7 Layer Bar Ice Cream? Eat your heart out Ben & Jerry!

Remember the 7 Layer Bar recipe from New Years Day? Well, there was no way our household could finish off that pan. So to use the remaining cookies, we adapted a good ole fashion Ben & Jerry’s vanilla ice cream base with rich and decandent crumbled 7 Layer Bars. The result: A rich and creamy dessert that could potentially hold its own against a Ben & Jerry’s concoction or two. It’s not summer yet, but who needs the heat to enjoy this treat?

Ingredients

2 cups, crumbled 7 Layer Bars
2 cups heavy or whipping cream
1 tbsp of vanilla bean paste or extract
3/4 cup sugar
2/3 cup half-and-half

Helpful Tools
Ice Cream Maker – the most important and helpful tool you will need
Food processor – no food processor? Use your hands

Preparation

Using a food processor or your hands, crush 7 layer bars into bite size morsels in a bowl and set aside. In a mixing bowl, pour in cream and whisk in sugar a bit at a time. Whisk until completely blended. Next, add vanilla bean paste and half-and-half and whisk until evenly blended. Following the Ice cream maker’s manufacturing instructions, slowly pour in ice cream base and mix until it slowly begins to thicken. Slowly add in 7 layer bars while the machine continues to churn. It is important to add in the bars at this time so that they are evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. If they are added too early, they will simply fall to the bottom. Continue churning until the desired texture of ice cream is reached. Transfer to container(s) and freeze overnight. Makes about 1 quart maybe a little extra if you’re lucky. Enjoy!

Happy New Year – 7 Layer Bars

7 Layer Bars

2011 rings in new beginnings, exciting adventures and (in this blogs case) more creative and tasty recipes. It is my pleasure to provide a decadent and rich cookie of sorts for the first entry of the year – 7 Layer Bars. White chocolate, semi-sweet chocolate, butterscotch, walnuts and coconut are just the start of the layers. Combined, be prepared for your taste buds to be overwhelmed. Caution you’ll want to eat more than one. Goes well with a cup of black coffee. May this “rich” treat bring you prosperity for this new year. Enjoy and Happy New Year!

Ingredients

6-7 planks of cinnamon graham crackers
1/2 cup of melted butter (1 stick)
1 12 oz can of sweetened condensed milk
1 cup white chocolate chips
1 cup semi-sweet chocolate chips
1 cup of butterscotch chips
2 cups of coconut flakes
1 cup chopped walnuts (or pecans)
wax paper
13 x 9 inch baking pan
non-stick cooking spray

Helpful Tools
Food processor
*recipe will assume you have a food processor, if not, use appropriate method to crush graham crackers.

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly grease pan with non-stick cooking spray, making sure to coat bottom and sides. Line inside of pan with wax paper. Wax paper should only cover the bottom. In food processor crush graham crackers until completely pulverized. Slowly pour in melted butter combine until a cookie-like batter is formed. Add mixture to 9 x 13 pan and spread making sure it evenly coats the bottom of pan. Press firmly. Add sweetened condensed milk evenly over the cookie layer. Begin layers as such: white chocolate chips, coconut, butterscotch chips, coconut, semi-sweet chocolate, coconut, sweetened condensed milk, walnuts, coconut and finally….yes, more sweetened condensed milk.

Side note: If you’ve noticed, there are more than 7 layers. This is simply because we got a bit over zealous.

Once all ingredients have been used to create layers, place in oven and bake for 30 minutes or until bars are golden brown. Place bars on a rack and run a knife along the edges to separate bars from the pan. Allow to cool on a rack completely. Once bars have cooled completely cut into squares.

Caution: As much as you want to dive in and cut right away, don’t. The bars have to set and become solid so that the cuts will be clean and perfect. Eat and Share!