Apartment Therapy let me down on this one. Their ice cream articles are partly what inspired me to finally buy my ice cream maker but this recent recipe didn't quite work out the way you think it would.

Ingredients
1/4 cup powdered unsweetened cocoa (I used Hershey's Special Dark)
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 water
1/4 teaspoon salt
4 cups half and half (or 2 cups cream and 2 cups whole milk)
2 egg yolks, lightly beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla

Directions
Whisk the cocoa, sugar, water and salt together in a 2-quart saucepan. Heat over medium heat until boiling then simmer for 2 minutes. Whisk in the half and half and heat just until bubbles appear around the edges. Pour a cup of the cream mixture into the egg yolks and whisk until tempered, then add back into the pan. Cook, stirring constantly, over low-medium heat until it reaches a temperature of 170ºF.

Chill overnight and then process in an ice cream maker.

Makes 1 1/2 quarts.







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I added chocolate chips cause they're my cover-up when it comes to ice cream. Chocolate chips gloss over my mistakes. In this case they helped make up for the fact that this tasted more like hot chocolate than chocolate ice cream. At first it was really disappointing but by the time I finished it I decided it wasn't so bad. It wasn't chocolate ice cream but that doesn't mean there isn't room in the world for a hot chocolate ice cream flavor.

Labels: icecream, snappy