Cherry Ice Cream

PARTY TIME!  (AGAIN!)  Ryan can hardly stand it.  We are having the family over again. His family was here last weekend, and my family is coming tonight. Andrew is in town, and it's our last big chance to party before he heads home to Hershey, PA.  We are doing potluck BBQ. I hope we have enough food.  I am doing homemade ice cream - Cherry flavor. It's cherry season and Ryan's mom gave us a bunch she bought for last week when Ryan's sister was town. We have been eating them all week and still have a lot! I'll add pics later.

3 cups cherries, remove stems and pits
3/4 c sugar
1 pint (2 cups) heavy cream
1 can (21oz) Cherry pie filling
1 cup whole milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 tsp almond extract

Blend cherries, sugar and milk and pie filling in a blender. Add the cream, vanilla and almond extract. Mix well and chill for 1 hour or so.

Add:

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk
1 can (12 oz) evaporated milk
1 and 1/2 cup milk (or enough to fill 4 qt mixer - I used skim milk)

Freeze in your ice cream freezer.

It turned out! The family said it was good. Ryan and I had 2nd helpings - 1 and 1/2 more servings than I should have had. :-)