Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

Two weeks from today, I will be waking up as a brand new married person.

Needless to say, my head is spinning with all the items on my neverending to-do list.  There is so much to do, between the preparations and the planning and all the exciting, tiny, tiny details that go into a wedding -- things you don't realize take up a ton of time and attention until you actually go through it.

But I am so, so excited -- it's hard to believe that in just two weeks, I'll be going through one of the biggest transitions of my life.  I'm lucky enough to have a wonderful, loving fiance, who inspired this recipe by going out of town for a weekend a little while ago.  Because when he got home on that Sunday night, I made a recipe I knew he couldn't resist (even if it didn't exactly bode well for my pre-wedding diet):  Cookies and Cream Ice Cream.

And I know I say this a lot, but this is potentially my favorite ice cream recipe I've posted here -- the nutella ice cream is a close second, but depending on your preference, this one might take the cake.  It's super sweet, just a little bit rich, creamy and delicious -- there are a ton of oreo cookies in this portion of ice cream, and it's like eating pure oreo flavor.  If you have to break your pre-wedding calorie diet for something, this isn't such a bad way to go.

Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

INGREDIENTS

1 cup milk

3/4 cup heavy cream

1/2 cup sugar

15 oreo cookies

1 tsp vodka

DIRECTIONS

Process 10 of the oreo cookies in food processor until crushed into powder.   Add the remaining five and pulse briefly, to create larger pieces.  Mix in the milk, sugar and heavy cream, and mix thoroughly.  Churn in an ice cream for about 45 minutes, and then freeze for several hours until the ice cream is at your preferred consistency.