Jenny who I sent my foodie penpal parcel to last month, has a fabulous blog, takes great pictures and made Smarties Ice Cream, as she said, it’s not really cooking. It’s ready made custard, a pot of double cream and a tube of Smarties.

Luckily I think that ice cream is a food you can eat at any time, it’s not just for sunny weather (and a good job too given the absolute lack of sun, we’ve had so far this year!) I just needed an excuse to make it and Jo and Ms T coming over for lunch last Sunday was that excuse, so I borrowed Michel’s ice cream maker and away I went.

I couldn’t find Smarties (I know it’s shocking!) so used Minstrels but I’m pretty sure that you could sub any pulverised chocolate, M&M‘s (which are just less fun Smarties!), Flakes, even just plain chocolate. A tube of Smarties weigh 42gms so I used that amount of Mistrels but I reckon the ice cream could take a bit more.

It’s pretty good, not as good as Spurellis but it’ll do until I’m back in Amble…