Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream

By Addie

I’ve been looking for a great chocolate ice cream recipe for quite a while. I’ve tried several recipes and made up several, but I finally discovered a perfectly chocolatey, smooth ice cream. It’s easy and has only three ingredients.

Here’s what you’ll need to make one Cuisinart counter-top freezer full. If you are making the ice cream in a traditional freezer that uses salt and ice, you’ll need to double this recipe and you can probably add even more half & half. Experiment to see what works (and then let me know too!).Now that I have this chocolate base, the possibilities are endless for ice cream flavors.

Ingredients

• 2 cups half & half
• 2 packets of Nestle Choco Bake (sold near the cocoa powder, it comes with 8 packets per box)
• 1 can sweetened condensed milk

Preparation

Step 1

First stir the sweetened condensed milk and the pre-melted chocolate together. Stir in the 1/2 and 1/2. Freeze according to your freezer’s directions.
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I like to transfer the ice cream into another container and place it in a regular freezer or deep freeze so that it scoops out like hard ice cream.

NOTE: It's always better to mix the "base" ingredients together in a bowl and let it sit, covered, in the refrigerator at least 4 hours to "age" (to let the flavors meld.)