CHOCOLATE version 1
4 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
2 cups table cream (18% milk fat)
1 1/2 cups milk
1/2 cup cocoa powder (sifted)
2 tsp pure vanilla extract
Beat egg yolks lightly. Beat in sugar. Heat the cream/milk on the stove. As it's heating, beat in cocoa powder. Heat cream/milk/cocoa mix until steaming. Stir into egg/sugar mix. Add vanilla extract. Cool. Freeze in ice cream maker.
Notes:
I use Dutch processed cocoa (instead of American processed), but I'm not sure how much difference it makes. I've tried using a higher milk fat content, but then the mix takes on the consistency of pudding when cooled, and doesn't freeze hard enough in ice cream maker.
CHOCOLATE version 2
4 oz unsweetened chocolate (I used Ghirardelli)
1 1/4 cup milk
2 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 cup cream
1 pinch salt
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1/2 cup milk
Melt chocolate over low heat while heating milk over low heat. Gradually stir milk into melted chocolate. If you don't stir milk in gradually, chocolate will clump and you will have difficulty breaking it down. If you stir milk in gradually, chocolate will clump, but you'll be able to break it down when you add a little more milk. Heat while stirring until smooth. Mixture will become thick. Beat sugar into eggs. Stir in hot chocolate/milk mixture into eggs. Add cream, salt, vanilla, and extra 1/2 cup milk. Cool. Freeze in ice cream maker.
CHOCOLATE version 3
3 eggs
1/2 cup sugar
8 oz bittersweet chocolate
1 cup milk
2 cups table cream (18% milk fat)
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
Beat eggs lightly. Beat sugar into eggs. Heat chocolate, milk, and 1 cup of cream together in a sauce pan. Stir occasionally until chocolate starts to melt. When chocolate partially melted, stir in cocoa powder. When hot (and chocolate fully melted and cocoa dissolved) but not boiling, remove from stove and stir in to eggs. Add second cup of cream and vanilla. Cool. and make in ice cream maker.
CHOCOLATE ALMOND
Chocolate Ice Cream mix (see recipe)
3/4 cup toasted almonds
Make a batch of chocolate ice cream (see recipe). When nearly frozen, add the toasted almonds.
Note: You will obtain better results if you toast your own almonds. Buy blanched almonds, toast in the oven at 250 for 2-4 minutes (watch them carefully so they don't burn). You may want to chop the almonds before toasting if you prefer smaller pieces.
CHOCOLATE ALMOND BUTTER
2 oz bittersweet chocolate
5 Tbl cocoa powder
2 cup milk
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 cup cream
1.5 tsp pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup almond butter
Melt chocolate over low heat.
Gradually stir in cocoa powder and milk while continuing to heat. You want the consistency to be thick but not solid as you add the milk and cocoa powder. Beat sugar into eggs. Stir hot chocolate/milk mixture into eggs. Add cream and vanilla extract. Cool. Just before adding to ice cream maker, stir a cup of ice cream mixture into almond butter. Once mixed, stir into rest of ice cream mixture. Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions.
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CHOCOLATE BANANA
3 eggs
1 cup sugar
2 oz bittersweet chocolate
2 cups table cream (18% milkfat)
1 1/2 cups milk
6 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
3 over-ripe bananas
Juice of 1 lemon
Beat eggs lightly
Beat sugar in to eggs
Melt chocolate in milk and cream
When chocolate partially melted, stir in cocoa powder.
Continue stirring chocolate/cream mixture until hot but not quite boiling
Stir hot chocolate/cream mixture in to eggs.
Stir in vanilla extract.
Cool.
When ready to make, mash bananas and lemon juice together
Make chocolate mixture in ice cream maker.
Just before ready, add banana mixture.
Note: Use good quality, *very* ripe bananas. Otherwise your ice cream will have a strange flavor.
CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE DOUGH
2 c Milk
1 3/4 c Sugar
1/2 ts Salt
2 c Half & Half
1 tb Vanilla Extract
4 c Whipping Cream
Pillsbury Chocolate Chip - Cookie Dough (large size) - OR homemade cookie dough
Take the chocolate cookie dough out of fridge and leave out till needed. Scald milk until bubbles form around edge. Remove from heat. Add sugar and salt. Stir until dissolved. Stir in half and half, vanilla, and whipping cream. Cover and refrigerate 30 minutes. Freeze as directed by your ice cream machine's instructions. Once ice cream has been through the entire ice cream machine process and is now a chilled soft ice cream, add the chocolate chip cookie dough. Just break up the dough as best you can with your hands and drop it in small clusters into the soft ice cream. Try to mix it around to ensure that the cookie dough is evenly distributed throughout the ice cream. Put the ice cream in the freezer for several hours until hardened.
CHOCOLATE EXPRESSO
2 C heavy cream, whipped stiff
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 C chocolate syrup (ie Nestles)
1 whole fresh egg, slightly beaten
1 serving of instant coffee powder, your choice of international flavor (mocha, vienna, etc)
Add the salt and egg to the whipped cream. Beat until well blended. Add, folding gently, but thoroughly, the chocolate syrup and instant coffee. Freeze as is for 3 hours.
CHOCOLATE FLAKE
If you like little chewy bits of dark chocolate in your ice cream then this chocolate chip is just the thing for you. This is prepared just like the Double Chocolate (see recipe), except when the chocolate is dissolved in the double boiler, pour the thick chocolate sauce directly into the prepared ice cream mix. The chocolate will "shatter" into thousands of chocolate bits and a few large clumps. Immediately beat on low speed mixer until all the large clumps are broken up into tiny chocolate flakes. Allow to cool completely, chilling in the refrigerator for about four hours (this "ages" the mix), and freeze in your ice cream freezer.
CHOCOLATE FROZEN YOGURT
3/4 cup sugar
2 teaspoons cornstarch
12 ounces evaporated lowfat milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup plain yogurt
2 ounces semisweet chocolate chips
In medium saucepan, combine the sugar and cornstarch. Stir in milk. Cook and stir over moderate heat until thickened and bubbly. Remove from heat; let the mixture in the refrigerator. Add the vanilla and yogurt. Refrigerate until the mixture is cold. Melt the chocolate. While the chocolate is hot, pour it very slowly into the chilled yogurt mixture while stirring gently. Freeze in a ice-cream maker according to manufacturer's directions.
CHOCOLATE MACADAMIA NUT ICE CREAM
6 egg yolks
1/2 cup of sugar
1 cup table cream
1 cup milk
4 oz semi-sweet chocolate
1 cup whipping cream
1 pinch of salt
1 tsp vanilla
1 5 oz can Macadamia nuts
Beat eggs yolks in bowl; beat in sugar. Heat table cream and milk in a pan over medium heat. Melt chocolate over low heat. When milk is hot, mix a small amount into chocolate and stir until blended. Repeat with small amounts of milk until all milk is added. Add hot milk/chocolate mix to eggs, stirring as you add. Cool, add whipping cream, vanilla and salt. Chop Macadamia nuts. Freeze in ice cream maker. When almost frozen, add nuts.
CHOCOLATE MARSHMALLOW
(Makes 1 Gallon)
1 c. sugar
6 eggs
1 Tbsp. flour
1 can Hershey's chocolate syrup
2 c. miniature marshmallows
1 large can evaporated milk
1 can Eagle Brand milk
Gradually add sugar to eggs, beating thoroughly. Add flour, evaporated milk, Eagle Brand milk, chocolate syrup and marshmallows. Whip thoroughly together. Put all this in double boiler and cook until it coats the spoon. Cool. Pour in freezer can and finish filling the freezer can with whole milk; freeze.
CHOCOLATE MINT
1 1/4 cup heavy cream
1 cup milk
1/3 cup sugar
1 cup mint chocolate chips
2 egg yolks
1/8 teaspoon salt
Combine 1 1/4 cups heavy cream, the milk, sugar and the mint chocolate chips in a saucepan. Cook over low heat, stirring with a wire whisk, until the chips are melted and mixture is smooth. Remove from heat. In a medium bowl, beat the egg yolks and the salt until thick. Gradually add the chocolate mixture. Beat until well blended and chill 30 minutes. Pour the chilled chocolate/egg mixture into an electric ice cream freezer; churn until thick. Cover and store in freeze until ready to serve.
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER ICE CREAM
3 oz bittersweet chocolate
6 Tbl cocoa powder
2 1/2 cup milk
3 eggs, lightly beaten
1 cup sugar
1 whipping cup cream
1.5 tsp pure vanilla extract
3/4 cup peanut butter
Melt chocolate over low heat. Gradually stir in cocoa powder and milk while continuing to heat. You want the consistency to be thick but not solid as you add the milk and cocoa powder. Beat sugar into eggs. Stir hot chocolate/milk mixture into eggs. Add cream and vanilla extract. Cool. Just before adding to ice cream maker, stir a cup of ice cream mixture into peanut butter. Once mixed, stir into rest of ice cream mixture. Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Use fresh ground peanut butter if possible (ie, it should be 100% peanuts).
CHOCOLATE PEANUT BUTTER CHIP
Nice bits of rich chocolate and creamy peanut butter are scattered through this rich flavored ice cream!
For this great recipe use Old Time Vanilla (see recipe) ice cream and when almost frozen stir in 1/4 cup Semi-Sweet Chocolate mini-chips and 1/4 cup peanut butter chips.
CHOCOLATE RASPBERRY
Chocolate Ice Cream mix (reduce to 1 tsp vanilla extract)
1 cup raspberries
Mash raspberries together with 1/4 cup sugar. Just before adding to ice cream maker, stir juice from berries into mix. Freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer's instructions. Just before frozen, add berries. Note: Fresh raspberries produce better ice cream, but frozen raspberries will still make an excellent treat (but don't use raspberries frozen in syrup).
WHITE CHOCOLATE
2 cups light cream
4 eggs
12 oz white chocolate coarsely chopped
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 cups heavy cream
Scald the light cream in top of double boiler set over simmering water. Add the chocolate. Reduce heat so the water barely simmers and cook until the chocolate is melted, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat. Using a electric mixer, beat the eggs in medium bowl. Add the sugar and continue beating until all the sugar is dissolved. Slowly mix in the chocolate mixture. Beat in the heavy cream. Refrigerate until well chilled. Pour into the ice cream maker using it according to manufacturer's instructions. Freeze in covered container at least 4 hours.
DARK CHOCOLATE
4 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 cup milk
2 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup heavy cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 pinch salt
Melt chocolate in double boiler over hot (not boiling) water. Gradually whisk in milk, stir until smooth. Remove from heat and let it cool. Whisk eggs in a mixing bowl until light and fluffy. Gradually whisk in sugar, then continue whisking 1 minute, until completely blended. Add the cream, vanilla, and salt; whisk. Add the chocolate mixture; blend well. Cover, chill, and freeze
DARK FUDGE
6 oz Unsweetened chocolate
2 tb Butter
2 c Sugar
1/3 c Light corn syrup
2 c Half and half
4 Eggs
2 ts Vanilla extract
2 c Whipping cream
In a large, heavy saucepan, melt chocolate and butter over low heat, stirring often. Stir in sugar, corn syrup and 2/3 cup of the half and half. Stir over medium-low heat until mixture comes to a boil. Simmer 4 minutes without stirring; set aside. In a small bowl, beat eggs until blended. Stir in 1/2 cup of hot chocolate mixture. Stir egg mixture into remaining chocolate mixture. Cook and stir over medium heat until slightly thickened, about 1 minute. Cool to lukewarm. Stir in vanilla, whipping cream and the rest of the half and half. Freeze in ice-cream maker according to
manufacturer's directions. Yield: 1 1/2 quarts.
DOUBLE CHOCOLATE
This is a double chocolate ice cream guaranteed to get your endorphins flowing. It's made from both Dutch process cocoa and Baker's chocolate liqueur. Prepare the mix as for the Old Time Vanilla (see recipe) ice cream, but instead of the brown sugar, use ½ cup of white granulated sugar. Set the mix nearby after it is prepared. Then in a double boiler with the water hot but not boiling, melt 2 ounces of good quality baker’s unsweetened chocolate. When completely melted, add 1 tablespoon of Dutch chocolate cocoa powder. This chocolate sauce will thicken immediately, so quickly add some of the base mix, 1/4 cup at a time stirring constantly. The chocolate sauce will now thicken into a massive thick ball of chocolate. Keep adding base mix up to a cup and keep stirring until you have a smooth thick chocolate sauce. When it has cooled slightly, add to the base mix and stir vigorously. Not all the chocolate will dissolve; you’ll still have thousands of very tiny chocolate bits in the mix, which is as it should be, but you'll prbably need to
strain out a number of the larger chunks, perhaps several tablespoonfuls, but that's ok, that's how you know you have a supersaturated suspension of chocolate! Let the mix chill in the refrigerator for four hours (allowing it to age) and then freeze according to the directions with your ice cream freezer.