Best Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe
How to make the best mint chocolate chip ice cream recipe at home
Yield: 4 cups
Equipment
- Ice Cream Maker
Materials
- 2 cups milk 1% or 2%
- 2 cups heavy cream chilled
- 1 cup sugar granulated
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 1-2 tsp peppermint extract
- 10-15 drops green food coloring optional
- 1 cup chocolate chips chopped
Instructions
- In a large bowl, combine milk, heavy cream, and sugar. Mix well until sugar is completely dissolved.
- Add vanilla extract and 1 tsp of peppermint extract. Taste test the mixture. If you would like a stronger mint flavor, add 0.5 tsp more, taste test again. You can go even further and add another 0.5 tsp of peppermint extract. Usually 1 tsp of peppermint extract is enough to give a hint of flavor, which is what I normally use.
- Add a few drops of food coloring and mix well. Keep adding only a couple of drops of food coloring until you're happy with the green color of your ice cream.
- Your ice cream maker bowl needs to be frozen for 24 hours before using it. Once your bowl is chilled, set up your ice cream maker. I use Cuisinart's Ice cream maker which only has 2 plastic parts, one sits in the bowl to mix, and 1 as a lid.
- Turn your ice cream maker on. Pour your ice cream mixture into the frozen bowl. Let it churn for 10 minutes.
- While your ice cream is churning, chop up your chocolate chips. Chocolate chips are a little big for ice cream, so you could use mini chocolate chips instead if you like.
- After 10 minutes of churning, add in your chocolate chips.
- Let your ice cream churn for another 10 minutes.
- Turn off your ice cream maker. Remove the ice cream from the frozen bowl, into an air tight container. Place it in the freezer for 3 hours prior to serving.
