![]() You should reward that big juicy brain with some Chocolate Mint Swirl Ice Cream, you smarty pants, you. And if you’re thinking I just want to do that to create another excuse to eat chocolate-mint ice cream, well, you’re not wrong. This is one of my favorite ice cream creations of the summer, and I’m looking forward to trying a “reverse” version with a white chocolate base and a dark chocolate swirl. (Good because you can eat a lot without feeling stuffed, and bad for the same reasons.) Must!Mint!All!The!Things! (But if you want to try it with the Andes, go for it!) The mint is so refreshing, it totally balances the richness and depth of the chocolate, and makes the ice cream feel downright light, which is both good and bad. I personally can’t get enough of the mint-chocolate combination, and I had to stop myself from adding chopped Andes mints to the ice cream as well. It still gets pretty firm in the freezer, but it’s extra rich and creamy, and stays soft enough to a) not cause El Cheapo Ice Cream Maker to have a conniption fit and b) remain scoopable and not chip-a-toothable.Īnd the mint! With three mint components, this is for those who love their chocolate with a big blast of mint flavor. So, I worked extra-hard, and made several trial batches, until I came up with a chocolate ice cream that freezes a little softer than most. Now, this may be because my ice cream maker cost about $5 and makes an Easy Bake Oven look like a solid piece of kitchen equipment…who can say? At any rate, most chocolate ice creams that use melted chocolate in the base freeze way too quickly and cause my maker to jam and stutter and leave me with a sad mess of partially liquid, partially rock-hard “ice cream.” It may be the epitome of a first world problem, but it’s still pretty sad when you have a hankering for ice cream and end up with a hot cold mess. I have a notoriously hard time churning most chocolate ice creams. What was that I was saying, about the light and the fire? For a little texture and fun, I added crushed mint Oreos to the ice cream as well. The chocolate itself is flavored with mint, and it has a mint-white chocolate swirl running throughout. But this isn’t just plain chocolate ice cream, this is chocolate amped up with triple mint action. (Sorry, Nabokov.)Īnyhow, as chocolate’s #1 fan, I couldn’t let Ice Cream Week pass me by without offering up my own chocolate ice cream variation. Light of my life, fire of my loins… oh wait, I stole that last part from Lolita. My favorite ingredient, my most beloved flavor, my perennial guilty pleasure, my mother tongue. Smooth and creamy homemade chocolate ice cream has a refreshing mint flavor and big chunks of mint Oreo cookie.Ĭhocolate. If you’re a mint chocolate lover, then this Chocolate Mint Swirl Ice Cream is the ice cream for you.
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