Chocolate Ice Cream

I know that, people think, why should one make ice creams at home when it's easily available in varieties in the market. Its true, as its pretty time consuming. But the joy you get once you taste your homemade ice cream is out of the world. The best part is, that, you can make as much as you want and store it in your refrigerator throughout the year! And always play with the flavors and make it a memorable experience. So i have a added a lot more ingredients to make it extremely rich and creamy, as that's how i like my ice creams. So lets start making our very own homemade chocolate ice cream.


Ingredients:

• Milk- Half Litre (Keep Half of this for boiling)
• Sugar - 8 Tsp
• C.M.C- 1 Tsp
• G.M.S - 1.5 Tsp
• Cornflour - 1.5 Tbsp
• Milk Powder - 8 Tbsp
• Mascarpone Cheese- 400 gms
• Cocoa Powder - 2 Tbsp
• Fresh Cream - 200 Ml
• Chocolate - Melted- 150 Gms
• Chocolate Chips - 100 Gms (Optional)

Method:

Boil half the milk required and take it off the stove.

Mix sugar, cmc, gms, cornflour, milk powder, cocoa powder to the boiled milk and whisk well so that there are no lumps . You could even give this a good blend too.

Now, add the rest of the milk and return it to the flame and cook on medium heat until the mixture starts to bubble and thicken, stirring constantly or else the base might burn and taste bitter.
Make sure you are only doing this, when u make ice cream, it needs your complete attention.

Once it starts to bubble , switch off the flame and let this mix come to room temperature.

Now add the melted chocolate, fresh cream and mascarpone cheese. Give it a good whisk with your blender.

Refrigerate this ice cream for a couple of hours. Remove it and give a good mix again using  your machine to make it light and fluffy.

You can add chocolate chips at this stage.

Refrigerate again for upto 8 hours for the ice cream to set.


A few Tips:

• You can omit milk powder.

• You can omit fresh cream if you're using mascarpone cheese or vice versa. 

• Always taste your mix and adjust the sugar.

• Never boil your milk and directly add the dry ingredients on the flame as the base burns quickly. Always remove the hot liquid and add the dry mix and return it to the flame and whisk constantly.

• If you like your ice cream creamy, then you could leave out chocolate chips.

• If you're able to scoop out your ice cream, that means it has set or else give it some more time.

• You can get creative and add wafer bits, crushed cookies, gems etc to your ice cream.

• And if your looking at other flavours, just leave out cocoa powder and add other flavors, fruit pulps etc.

Do try this and leave me a comment!