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flavor Cool Creations Simple and easy ice cream recipes to enjoy all year long WRITTEN AND PHOTOGRAPHED BY KATE MORGAN JACKSON T here’s all kinds of ice cream fun to be had at home. A fun and easy recipe for shortcut blueberry ice cream combines your favorite vanilla ice cream with a generous dollop of blueberry jam. And no matter what the season, it’s always a good time for banana bread ice cream shooters. Banana Bread Ice Cream Shooters SERVES AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU HAVE ICE CREAM FIXINGS AND SHOT GLASSES Shortcut Blueberry Ice Cream SERVES 4 INGREDIENTS 1 pint of your favorite vanilla ice cream ¼ to ½ cup blueberry jam (depending on how blueberry you like things) DIRECTIONS • Put a pint of vanilla ice cream in the refrigerator (not the freezer) for an hour to soften. • Scoop the soft ice cream into a loaf pan or a medium-size mixing bowl and stir so that it is all the same consistency. • Drop spoonfuls of jam on top of the softened ice cream and swirl with a knife until you have ribbons and streaks of jam throughout. Don’t stir too much — you want nice swirls of blueberry. • Cover the pan or bowl with plastic wrap and put into the freezer to harden. Overnight is best for this. • When it is frozen back to ice cream consistency, scoop and serve. 16 BACK TO SCHOOL 2018 MILLBURN & SHORT HILLS MAGAZINE INGREDIENTS • Banana bread, crumbled into small pieces • Vanilla ice cream • Walnuts • Your favorite caramel sauce, heated as necessary to be pourable • Shot or shooter glasses for serving DIRECTIONS • Assemble as follows: about a heaping teaspoon each of banana bread, ice cream and walnuts. • Repeat for as many layers as you can get into your glasses, which should be two or three. Leave a little room at the top for the caramel sauce. • Drizzle caramel sauce on top of each serving and top with a walnut half. Serve at once.