Banana Ice Cream with Caramelized White Chocolate Freckles

I'd call this a 4 for the ice cream - nice banana flavor. If you've got some leftover fruit purees from other recipes, you can use them well here - strawberry banana is good.

It's a two for the chocolate freckles though, with an asterisk that it's probably my equipment's fault. The directions say to drizzle the chocolate bombe shell "through the opening in the top", but my old bought-at-the-hardware-store ice cream maker doesn't have an opening at the top. Now, what I should have done was laid down ribbons of chocolate while packing the ice cream. What I did do was take off the top and spin the beater by hand while my son poured in the chocolate. And what I got were a few "freckles" of chocolate, some big chunks that were more like "moles," and 3 or 4 enormous "dude, get that checked by a doctor" clumps. I eventually fished these out and smashed them with the points of a fork to get them down to a size that will fit on an ice cream spoon.

Having done that, it's very tasty. I used dark chocolate and it's a pretty close recipe to Ben & Jerry's Chunky Monkey. So I'll probably make it again, but I'll replace my machine or deal with the chocolate differently next time.