This afternoon I whipped up a batch of mint chocolate chip ice cream. According to Monkey Boy, it was the best ice cream he had ever tasted. But he’s a boy, who loves Doritos… so can he be trusted? Hmmm.
I think so.
In fact, I’ll even go on record to tell you this was the easiest batch of ice cream I have ever made in my entire life. Ever!
Want to know why? No Eggs.
Seriously, who knew ice cream could be made without eggs? Not me.
I think this batch of mint chocolate chip ice cream took about 5 whole minutes to make. Well, minus the time it took to churn itself in the ice cream maker.
If you have all the ingredients on hand, you should make this tonight for dessert.
UPDATED June 2019: This is even better if you add in homemade Mint Extract. Shazaam!
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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Description
A super easy ice cream recipe!
Ingredients
2 cups milk {I used 2%}
2 cups heavy cream
1 cup sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon peppermint extract
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
5 drops of green food coloring
3 oz chocolate {I used semi-sweet}
Instructions
Add all ingredients in a large bowl and stir well.
Pour into your ice cream maker and freeze according to the directions on your ice cream maker.
While the ice cream is churning, melt 3 oz chocolate in a double boiler.
Once the chocolate has melted, carefully pour it into a squeezy bottle.
Drizzle the bottom of your ice cream container with about half of the melted chocolate.
Once the ice cream is ready, pour half of the ice cream into the ice cream container.
Drizzle with chocolate.
Add the rest of the ice cream, and drizzle the remaining chocolate sauce over the ice cream.
Place the ice cream in the freezer for a few hours to ripen and harden a bit.
Serve alone, or with chocolate chip cookies if you have them.
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Michele ODonnell says
Yummo!! Mint chocolate chip ice cream is my favorite. I really must get an ice cream maker.
Robin in SoCal says
Hi What type of ice cream maker do you have? I have an old cheapo and am ready to make this the summer of homemade ice cream, thanks
Mavis says
Robin, I have the old fashioned wooden hand crank ice cream maker that I pull out for parties and I also have the kitchen aid ice cream bowl attachment. I use the kitchen aid one all the time and store it in the freezer when it’s not in use.
Diana R.Smith says
Been gathering all the ice cream recipes I can find in hopeful expctations of our Jersey cow Joy’s upcoming birthing. Been a few years since we wallowed in milk and cream! This sounds absolutely delicious…maybe I’ll have a new favorite ice cream besides homemade strawberry. Best part of homemade is none of those ingredients you can’t pronounce.
qathy says
I got a little excited, thinking perhaps you’d used your daughter’s KitchenAid Blendtec (I splurged and bought at Costco). Did you ever make ice cream with that?
jennifer says
I want to share and awesome recipe from my Grandma…..for mint chip pie……melt a bag of choc chips-add rice krispies till well coated-freeze and before serving add the ice cream…always a fave…..and another wonderful reason for monkey boy/the family to enjoy mint chip ice cream……
jennifer says
ps-that is usually enough for two crusts…..
Megan K says
Got an Ice Cream maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid for Christmas! So I tried this recipe for New Years…. modified for my husband: I left out the chocolate, and added crushed candy canes. Very yummy! The candy canes really needed to soften up more. Not sure if I should make up the ‘batter’ ahead and soak the crushed candy in it? Or make the whole batch ahead and freeze it for a few days. Thoughts?
Do you always make your ice cream right when you’re going to serve it? Do you ever make it ahead to have in the freezer? Any idea how long it will keep?
Mavis says
I usually make the ice cream ahead of time and stick it in the freezer for a few hours before serving so it harden up a bit. I’d say fresh Ice cream should be consumed with 1 week for the best flavor.
Carole says
Love Your Website!!
We use our (Amazon) Whynter brand ice cream freezer. We LOVE it, and use it ALL the time!! (Just a consumer… no ties to Amazon, or the company) It is automatic, no churning, no need to freeze bowls ahead of time, and we can make endless batches back to back in about 20 to 30 mins. per batch! DEFINITELY PRICEY … right now it is $333.28 But for us it was worth saving for! We can add only the ingredients we want to add and have ice cream whenever we want! (We bought ours 3 years ago and it is still going strong!! (About $100 a year, or less!! Even less the longer it lasts!! LOL)