Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

Enjoy the smooth, rich goodness of dark chocolate ice cream you made yourself. This rich treat has just the right amount of bittersweet cocoa and chopped dark chocolate to satisfy your chocolate cravings.

Ingredients:

• 2 cups heavy cream
• 1 cup whole milk
• 3/4 cup granulated sugar
• 1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 4 ounces dark chocolate, chopped
• 4 large egg yolks
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1/8 teaspoon salt

Instructions:

Heavy cream, milk, sugar, and cocoa powder should all be mixed together in a saucepan

Stir the mixture all the time while heating it over medium-low heat until the sugar and cocoa powder are gone

Mix in the chopped dark chocolate and stir it in until it melts and is smooth

Whisk the egg yolks in a different bowl until they are smooth

Slowly add a little of the hot chocolate mixture to the egg yolks while whisking the eggs all the time

Pour the egg mixture that has been tempered back into the saucepan with the rest of the chocolate mixture

Keep whisking the mixture the whole time

Over medium heat, stir the mixture all the time for about 5 to 7 minutes, or until it gets thick enough to coat the back of a spoon

Don't boil

Take the pan off the heat and add the salt and vanilla extract

Through a fine-mesh sieve into a clean bowl to get rid of any lumps

Press plastic wrap directly onto the top of the ice cream base to keep a skin from forming on top of the bowl

Put it in the fridge for at least four hours or overnight

Follow the maker's directions and churn the ice cream base until it's thick and creamy, about 20 to 25 minutes after it's been chilled

Put the churned ice cream in a container that can go in the freezer and freeze it for another two to three hours, or until it is firm

Enjoy dark chocolate ice cream with scoops