Chocolate Ice Cream

Name: Chocolate Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 6
Ingredients: 140 g/5 oz dark chocolate, at least 70%; 85 g/3 oz cocoa powder; 5 whole eggs; 170 g/6 oz caster sugar; 150 ml/¼ pint whipping cream; 575 ml/1 pint full cream milk

Preparation info

Serves
6

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Chocolate

By Sara Jayne Stanes

Published 1999

About

I adore ice cream - the home-made sort, that is. It is a real weakness and I have made ‘tons’ of the stuff. This is the best and easiest chocolate ice cream that I have used. It freezes equally well with or without a machine.

Ingredients

575 ml/1 pint full cream milk
150 ml/¼

ice cream
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Bring milk, cream, chocolate and cocoa powder to the boil. Whisk eggs and sugar together till pale and creamy, about 5 minutes. Amalgamate both together and cook out on top of stove over low heat until custard consistency (80°C). Strain, cool and freeze.