Coffee Ice Cream, the Old-fashioned Way

Guys?  I made ice cream.  Without an ice cream maker or anything fancy.  In my college dorm kitchen, armed with only a few humble ingredients, I made ice cream.

It all started a few days ago, when my good friend Cassie and I made the Most Sinful Food You Will Ever Eat (aka Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars).  We had great fun using up bits of this and that from my baking cupboard, but after all was said and done and we were licking the melted chocolaty caramel off of our fingers, I realized that I had a few eggs and nearly a whole cup of cream leftover.  And not much else.  And having been to the store once already and spent money from my slim budget, I needed a plan that would only use the "normal" baking items I already had.

Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie Bars

If you are on a diet, stop reading right now.  I just want to give you guys a heads up, this is probably the Most Sinful Food You Will Ever Eat.

My friend Cassie says this is a "that-time-of-the-month" kind of treat, and she's absolutely right.  When it first came out of the oven, I just wanted to grab a spoon and devour half the pan.  Or maybe the whole pan.......

So, now that you've been appropriately warned, I'll proceed to tell you how to make them.  Basically this is a cookie sandwich with a layer of salted caramel in the middle.  Salted caramel, if you've never had it, is amazingness in your mouth.  It's the perfect combination of sweet and salty, and although I like pretzels dipped in Nutella as much as the next person, salted caramel is a classier way to pair these flavors.  Seattle claims to have been the first city to introduce salted caramel to the U.S.  Just another reason to love the Emerald City.