![]() ![]() I personally can’t get enough of the mint-chocolate combination, and I had to stop myself from adding chopped Andes mints to the ice cream as well. It still gets pretty firm in the freezer, but it’s extra rich and creamy, and stays soft enough to a) not cause El Cheapo Ice Cream Maker to have a conniption fit and b) remain scoopable and not chip-a-toothable.Īnd the mint! With three mint components, this is for those who love their chocolate with a big blast of mint flavor. So, I worked extra-hard, and made several trial batches, until I came up with a chocolate ice cream that freezes a little softer than most. Now, this may be because my ice cream maker cost about $5 and makes an Easy Bake Oven look like a solid piece of kitchen equipment…who can say? At any rate, most chocolate ice creams that use melted chocolate in the base freeze way too quickly and cause my maker to jam and stutter and leave me with a sad mess of partially liquid, partially rock-hard “ice cream.” It may be the epitome of a first world problem, but it’s still pretty sad when you have a hankering for ice cream and end up with a hot cold mess. I have a notoriously hard time churning most chocolate ice creams. What was that I was saying, about the light and the fire? For a little texture and fun, I added crushed mint Oreos to the ice cream as well. The chocolate itself is flavored with mint, and it has a mint-white chocolate swirl running throughout. But this isn’t just plain chocolate ice cream, this is chocolate amped up with triple mint action. (Sorry, Nabokov.)Īnyhow, as chocolate’s #1 fan, I couldn’t let Ice Cream Week pass me by without offering up my own chocolate ice cream variation. Light of my life, fire of my loins… oh wait, I stole that last part from Lolita. My favorite ingredient, my most beloved flavor, my perennial guilty pleasure, my mother tongue. Smooth and creamy homemade chocolate ice cream has a refreshing mint flavor and big chunks of mint Oreo cookie.Ĭhocolate. Freeze until hard before serving.If you’re a mint chocolate lover, then this Chocolate Mint Swirl Ice Cream is the ice cream for you. Once the ice cream mixture is well chilled, freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions.Īfter it finishes churning, layer ice cream with hot fudge sauce, starting with hot fudge sauce. Stir in the vanilla.Ĭover with plastic wrap and chill the mixture in the refrigerator for several hours or overnight. Remove from the heat, pour through the mesh sieve into the chocolate-cream mixture and stir to blend. Return the egg-milk mixture to the saucepan and continue heating over medium-high heat, stirring constantly and scraping the bottom of the pan with a spatula, until the mixture is slightly thickened and coats the back of a spoon. When the milk mixture is warm, gradually whisk the milk into the egg yolks, beating constantly. In a medium mixing bowl, whisk together the egg yolks. ![]() In the same saucepan, combine the rest of the milk, sugar and salt and warm the mixture over medium-high heat. Transfer this mixture to a medium-large mixing bowl. Remove the pan from the heat, mix in the chocolate and whisk until melted and smooth. Bring the mixture to a boil, then reduce the heat to medium-low and let simmer for 30 seconds, whisking constantly. Warm over medium-high heat, whisking to dissolve the cocoa. In a medium saucepan, combine 1 cup of the coconut milk with the cocoa powder. Three Years Ago: Chicken with Melon Salsa Two Years Ago: Egg, Avocado, and Apple Salad One Year Ago: Spinach Quiche and Seared Tuna Nicoise Salad Just trust the process and you won’t regret it. So don’t be tempted to swirl the fudge sauce in to the ice cream like I was. But when you go to scoop it, it swirls right up. I was a bit skeptical of the process of simply layering ice cream with fudge sauce. This was the first time I tried to make a swirl in an ice cream recipe. Believe me, this will NOT be the last ice cream recipe you guys will see with a fudge swirl in it… In fact, I’ve already made another variation and have a few other ideas in mind. The awesome thing about that sauce is that it doesn’t get super hard when it freezed. I just made a simple chocolate ice cream and layered in some of that hot fudge sauce. ![]() Remember that hot fudge sauce that I posted last week? Well, it was so good ON ice cream, that I decided to throw it IN some ice cream too. 10 comments » Chocolate Fudge Swirl Ice Cream ![]()
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