RECIPES

from Roy Connection July 2020

by Connection Media Co. - Connection Publishing

WE  ICE CREAM

I dare you to NOT want ice cream after you read this. I double dog dare you to NOT go out and eat ice cream after you read this. Ha Ha. I want a big bowl of ice cream right now! -Melissa Spelts

Our favorite summertime treat! We've got a couple delicious recipes and some fun confessions about all things ICE CREAM!

THIS SPACE RESERVED Recipes Brownie Belgium Waffles A La Mode Leatherby’s Copy-Cat Banana Split

Ryan Spelts - This is a recipe BY ANN PARK, PICTURE BY KATIE PARK for two people; only real These chocolaty waffles were rich men can eat the whole thing and decadent. My family enjoyed themselves…Just sayin’! them, but everyone agreed that they are closer to a dessert than 1 banana, sliced lengthwise a breakfast! And you have to have the ice cream with them, for 3 scoops of strawberry ice cream sure! This recipe was found at www.aspicyperspective.com. 3 scoops of chocolate ice cream 3 scoops of vanilla ice cream 1 ½ c. all-purpose flour 1 Tbsp. each Strawberry, Chocolate, Caramel Syrups 1/2 c. unsweetened cocoa powder Chopped Peanuts 1 c. granulated sugar Whipped Cream 1 tsp. baking powder 1 Marchino cherry 1 tsp. sea salt

10 Tbsp. melted unsalted butter 2 large eggs 2 tsp. vanilla extract "I remember going to Leatherby’s in 2/3 c. mini chocolate chips Las Vegas and ordering their banana optional toppings: vanilla ice cream, chocolate sauce, split. That split was the size of a huge powdered sugar

dinner plate, and I sat and ate the Preheat a Belgian waffle maker. In a large bowl mix the flour, whole thing. I found out later that they were supposed to be shared with a date. I was so sick after that! I paid dearly for all that ice cream cocoa powder, sugar, baking powder, and salt. Melt the butter and set aside to cool a little. Beat the eggs, vanilla extract, and water in a small bowl. Whisk the egg mixture into the dry mixture, then quickly mix in the melted butter. Finally, stir in the chocolate chips. Spray the waffle iron with non-stick cooking consumption. I’ll be honest, though. spray. Pour one-third of the batter into the waffle iron, close It was worth it!" - RYAN SPELTS and cook for approximately 3 minutes. Lift the lid to check the waffle. It should be fully formed, but soft to the touch. Carefully turn the waffle iron to flip the waffle out. The moment it starts cooling, it will crisp up. Repeat with the remaining batter.

Ice Cream CONFESSIONS Ice Cream

"Ice cream sandwiches are another "My senior year of high school, I ate a bowl of strawberry ice favorite. When I was a little girl, my mom cream for breakfast every day. (Shhh, my mom still doesn’t would buy these every once in a while. With seven children, a box of these would be gone quickly. I was told I could know.) To top off the sugar rush, I would mix up a packet of Kool-Aid with extra sugar and drink it all day. " - CRYSTAL RAPPLEYE THIS SPACE RESERVED only have one a day, and I remember telling my little brother, ”When I’m a mom, I’m going to let my kids eat as many ice cream sandwiches as they want.” If only my inner child was the mother to my children, they would love it. As I neared the end of my pregnancies, I would load up on chocolate. My babies always got belly aches if I ate chocolate while I was nursing them. NOT FUN! Ryan would take me to our favorite spot, Cold Stone Creamery, as often as "It has been 371 Days since I last ate ice cream…Secret confessions of a serious health nut. I’m so ashamed! But I’ve had many a late-night secret rendezvous with a cup of black raspberry swirled with vanilla and chocolate chunks, the Zeppe’s vanilla custard, or those super giant fresh raspberry shakes from Bear Lake. I made sure to help the kids if they couldn’t finish theirs!" - ANN PARK "I have to have crunchy in my ice cream. I MARY WRIGHT sent us her favorite ice cream recipe and said to be sure to let the kids eat from the dasher with spoons to “test” the ice cream. he could. I would place my order and watch as they folded the brownies and chocolate fudge syrup into my “Gotta Have It” bowl. -MELISSA SPELTS Recipes CAMRYN SPELTS said her favorite way to eat ice cream is with a FORK. It makes cool lines in the ice cream. love mint pistachio or cashew shakes. Rocky Road is my all-time favorite. If there is not anything crunchy like "My Grandpa Robinson introduced me to licorice ice cream at Ideal dairy in 1964. I love it, and Farr’s is great...if you like black chocolate chips, nuts, "I am known in my family as grab the best cereal we the “picker” or as I like to say, have in the house and “the treasure finder”. That pour it in. Grape nuts basically means that any ice work great. However, cream we get, I go through I’ve done almost anyand find all the treasures and thing from Fruity Pebonly eat those. Cookies and bles, Lucky Charms, and cream is my favorite, and after Fruit Loops to Frosted I’ve eaten, all you’ll have left Flakes, and yes, plain ‘ole is the vanilla ice cream. We Cheerios. But, like Ryan don’t buy ice cream often, but has said, nothing beats a now, my family has started killer Banana Split. I still just getting me my own small have to have that pint as they say I don’t eat ice crunch in there with it." cream like a normal person." - ROBERT DODD - KRISTINA CASE

M&Ms, etc. around, I’ll licorice, you have to try it." - RHETT LONG

”I worked at an ice cream place and accidentally made a mint chocolate chip shake rather than a cookie mint shake. The waiter stared at me and said, “I am so angry, I am going to have to go console myself with this shake while you make a new one,” and walked off with a big smile on his face.” -JIM SMITH

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