Standard Vanilla Ice Cream

Ingredients:
1 cup heavy cream
1 cup Half -n- Half
4 egg yolks
10 packets Splenda
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 tablespoon Davinci Sugar Free Vanilla syrup

Directions:
Note: You can omit the vanilla syrup, leave out if making one of the variations below

Heat cream in a heavy saucepan over low heat. Whisk in egg yolks, one at a time. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly until the mixture coats the back of a spoon. Do not let boil. Remove from heat.

Whisk in remaining ingredients. Cool to room temperature. Place mixture in the refrigerator or freezer to cool.

Pour into ice cream maker and freeze according to your machine.

VARIATIONS:
Replace the vanilla extract with other pure extracts.

Chocolate Chip
Make the vanilla ice cream above plus add chopped up Chocolate Carbolite bars or Atkins Endulge bars.

Mint Chocolate chip
Make chocolate chip but substitute with 1 teaspoon peppermint extract and add 4 or 5 drops of green food coloring.

Butter Pecan
Make standard vanilla and when ice cream is almost finished add SF syrup and 1 cup crushed pecans.

Almond Make standard vanilla and substitute almond extract and add 1 cup crushed almonds.

For chocolate syrup, take unsweetened cocoa (approx 2 tablespoons) and a couple packets of Splenda and water. Stir until it is all wet. Microwave for less than a minute. Stir and pour on ice cream and you can top with crushed nuts if desired.