Real Chocolate Ice Cream

Name: Real Chocolate Ice Cream
Yield: Serves 8-10
Ingredients: 25 g/1 oz cocoa powder; 1 teaspoon instant coffee; 75 g/3 oz plain chocolate, broken up, plus extra to decorate; 300 ml/½ pint whipping cream; 3 large eggs; pinch of salt; 175 g/6 oz caster sugar; 150 ml/¼ pint water

Preparation info

Serves
8-10

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Josceline Dimbleby’s Complete Cookbook

By Josceline Dimbleby

Published 1997

About

A chocolate finale to a special meal invariably provokes the most appreciation; few things more so than a deeply chocolatey ice cream like this one.

Ingredients

25 g/1 oz cocoa powder
1 teaspoon instant coffee

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free
ice cream

Method

Put the cocoa powder and instant coffee into a bowl, add 4 tablespoons of very hot water and stir until smooth. Leave on one side.

Whisk the eggs with the salt until pale and frothy. Dissolve the caster sugar in the water in a saucepan over a low heat, then bring to the boil and bubble fierc