Makes 1 1/2 – 2 quarts of ice cream.

Ingredients
4 ripe bananas, sliced in 1 inch chunks
1 1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon butter
1/4 cup brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
You can also add a teaspoon of cardamom or ginger or both to make the flavor more exotique.

2 cups whole milk
1 cups heavy cream
1/2 cup white sugar
4 egg yolks
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoons vanilla

- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- In a baking dish, combine bananas, honey, butter, sugar, and spices.
- Bake for 30-40 minutes, taking them out once or twice to give a good stir. Cook until the bananas are bubbling and have caramelized.
- Let bananas cool.
- Whisk together 3/4 cups honey and 2 tablespoons sugar with milk.
- Bring to a boil over medium heat, letting the milk heat up slowly.
- Reduce heat and simmer for 15-30 minutes, stirring regularly.
- The mixture should thicken and turn a caramel color.
- There are two things to watch for: don’t let the mixture boil over and don’t take it off too soon. It took me a while to get it to become caramel-like, but it does happen!
- Remove caramel from heat and whisk in 1 cup of milk.
- In another bowl, whisk eggs and salt.
- Take 1/4 of the caramel mixture and add to eggs to temper them – so they don’t scramble.
- Then pour the egg mixture slowly back into the pan of caramel and cook for five minutes to thicken.
- In a blender, blend remaining cup of milk and bananas.
- If you’d like chunky banana ice cream, set 1/4 of the caramelized banana mixture aside.
- Add caramel mixture to blender until everything is smooth.
- Stir in vanilla.
- Chill this mixture for at least four hours. To speed up the process you can pour mixture into a bowl and set it inside another bowl filled with ice and water – an ice bath.
- Once mixture is chilled, put it in an ice cream maker – use as directed.
- Usually after about 20-30 minutes, the ice cream will be well aerated and the consistency of soft-serve.
- Pour ice cream into air-tight container.
- If you want chunky monkey, this is the time to add the remaining caramelized bananas into the ice cream mixture.
- Freeze.
- This is great to make the day before you plan to serve.
- Delicious served with caramel sauce and coconut cake.