At Food Network’s Summer Fest, it’s all about cherries this week.
This time, Sunny and I decided to do a joint post with the same dish.
Sunny and I have two different cooking styles – mine being traditional and hers being gluten and dairy free.
Visit our joint post here at Ingredient Challenge Monday.
I ♥ Cherries!
I ♥ summertime!
Black Forest M&M Ice Cream
Or….you can do what I did (because I don’t have an ice cream maker).
Several hours (a day before or overnight is even better) before you’re ready to make the ice cream, put a mixing bowl (something durable) in the freezer.
Put your ice cream mixture in the bowl, give it a good stir and put it back in the freezer. About every 30-45 minutes check on it, and using a hand mixer or even a large spoon mix it really good to break up the frozen chunks.
Continue to do this until you have ice cream consistency.
Aren’t those colorful swirls from the M&M’s so cute?
Enjoy!
~Dixie Chik~
Black Forest M&M Ice Cream

Ingredients
- 1 1/2 cup whole milk
- 1 cup half & half
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 cup fresh cherries, pitted
- 1 cup M&M's
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tbsp Maraschino cherry juice (from the jar)
Instructions
- Whisk together the milk, half and half, sugar, vanilla and cherry juice.
- Add cherries and candy.
- Freeze according to your ice cream maker's directions.
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Nutrition Information:
Yield:
6Serving Size:
1Amount Per Serving: Calories: 363Total Fat: 14gSaturated Fat: 9gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 4gCholesterol: 25mgSodium: 96mgCarbohydrates: 56gFiber: 2gSugar: 52gProtein: 5g
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7 Comments
Pecan Pie
August 9, 2011 at 9:19 PMLoving the fresh fruit that’s available this summer. Cherries included. I don’t own an ice maker either, so this will be perfect for me to try with the new KA mixer. Nice photos, it really looks delicious.
kankana
August 5, 2011 at 1:26 PMu u u .. that is indulgence .. pure indulgence and I am drooling!! very creative and with cherries and M&M .. awsm!
Karen
August 5, 2011 at 12:17 PMYUM!
Rach
August 4, 2011 at 8:38 PMSo pretty! And cherries are super delicious!
steve
August 4, 2011 at 1:22 AMummmmm – what makes this “black forest”? Shouldn’t it be called frozen cherry cream with M&Ms.
carolinaheartstrings
August 3, 2011 at 2:55 PMThat looks just delicious. I love cherries and this time of year they are so wonderful.
Dixie Chik
August 3, 2011 at 2:59 PMThanks! It was very good 🙂