Chocolate Ice Cream

Name: Chocolate Ice Cream
Yield: makes about 1 quart (1 liter)
Ingredients: 2 cups (500 ml) heavy cream; 3 tablespoons (21 g) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder; 5 ounces (140 g) bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, chopped; 1 cup (250 ml) whole milk; 3/4 cup (150 g) sugar; Pinch of salt; 5 large egg yolks; 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

December 9, 2011

My search for the ultimate chocolate ice cream ended the day I opened my ice cream maker and took a taste of this version. And before I knew it, I’d licked the dasher as clean as the day I bought it! Intense cocoa powder blended with unctuous dark chocolate results in a perfect chocolate ice cream that’s so irresistible you won’t be able to wait to dig in either. I don’t know why, but homemade ice cream always tastes best scraped (or, if no one’s watching, licked) directly from the machine.

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