Deliciousness of the Day

Basic Chocolate Ice Cream

Last night, Chris and I made ice cream!

We used this recipe, and altered it a bit. 

*You need an ice cream maker for this recipe*

Whatcha Need:

1 can sweetened condensed milk

1/2 cup unsweetened coco powder

3 cups half & half

1 tablespoon vanilla extract

*you can add whatever you want to this, we added peanut butter cups*

How to do it:

In a medium saucepan over low heat, cook and stir condensed milk and cocoa until smooth and slightly thickened, 5 minutes. Remove from heat, and allow cooling slightly. Stir in half & half, and vanilla. Refrigerate until cold

  

Pour mixture into the canister of an ice cream maker, and freeze according to manufacturer's directions & add whatever you want.

This recipe was cheap & easy. We'll probably be doing this more often!

Considering that the original recipe had about 260 calories per serving, I think ours had considerably less. We cut out the heavy & light cream completely, and replaced it with half & half. We used valrhona cocoa powder, which gave it a richness that I doubt we would have gotten with Hershey's. It was really good! If you have an ice cream maker, I recommend you start using it!