For this Christmas my ice cream making was exercised in two new ways.

Vanilla Bean (yes, with vanilla beans). Well, I call it more Christmas ice cream, because of the dashes of nutmeg and cinnamon I added that definitely brought out some Christmas spirit:

And then there’s the Peppermint (with bits of candy cane mixed in):

Not shown — I just happened to get a waffle cone maker as a gift, and so these scoops were dished out into wonderful vanilla flavored cones.

mmmm…. good!