Turtle Ice Cream

By Addie

Ingredients

• Ice Cream base:
• 1 (14 ounce) can sweetened condensed milk
• 1 (5 ounce) can evaporated milk
• 2 Tablespoons sugar
• 2 teaspoons vanilla
• 2 cups whole milk
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• 1/4 cup caramel sauce (I used 1/2 cup; you could use more if you want to)
• 1/2 cup semisweet chocolate morsels
• 1 teaspoon shortening
• 3/4 cup toasted chopped pecans

Details

Adapted from keyingredient.com

Preparation

Step 1

Whisk first 5 ingredients in a 2 quart pitcher or large bowl until blended. Cover and chill 30 minutes.

Pour mixture into freezer container of a 1 1/2 quart electric ice-cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer's instructions.

Stir caramel sauce into prepared ice cream. Remove container with ice cream from ice cream maker and place in freezer 15 minutes.

Microwave semisweet chocolate morsels and shortening in a microwave safe glass bowl at HIGH 1 minute. Stir until smooth.

Place toasted chopped pecans on a parchment paper lined baking sheet. Drizzle pecans with melted chocolate. Freeze 5 minutes. Break into bite size pieces. Stir chocolate and pecan pieces into ice cream.

Transfer to an airtight container; freeze until firm, about 1 to 1 1/2 hours.