Chocolate Whiskey Ice Cream

  • Level: Easy
  • Yield: 1 pint
  • Total: 1 hr 25 min
  • Prep: 30 min
  • Inactive: 45 min
  • Cook: 10 min
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Ingredients

4 egg yolks

1/4 cup whiskey

1/4 cup sugar, plus 1/4 cup

1 1/2 cups heavy cream

1 vanilla bean split, seeds scraped

3 ounces chopped semisweet chocolate

1/4 cup mini chocolate chips

Directions

  1. Whisk together egg yolks, whiskey and 1/4 cup sugar in a medium bowl. Set aside.
  2. In a large saucepan, whisk together cream, vanilla bean, vanilla seeds and 1/4 cup of sugar. Simmer over low heat until the chocolate is melted. Temper egg yolk mixture by slowly adding hot cream mixture to the egg yolk mixture, with a ladle, a little at a time. Once egg yolk mixture is thoroughly warmed add to the saucepan with the warm cream mixture. Stir until thickened and remove from the heat.
  3. Strain mixture into a bowl over ice. Place the bowl into the refrigerator for at least 45 minutes. Once cooled, fold in the chocolate chips. Spin in an ice cream maker for 20 minutes until it reaches a soft-serve consistency.

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Tad D.

I have made this ice cream at least forty times. I now make it with cocoa nibs instead of chocolate chips. The nibs give a kick of chocolate flavor with a good crunch and are more interesting than chocolate chips. If you use vanilla paste or even vanilla extract, you will not taste any difference in the flavor (and this recipe was given before vanilla beans skyrocketed in price!) I also increased the ratio of ingredients by one third to fill my Cuisinart ice cream maker (1/3 cup of sugar, 1/3 cup of whiskey, 2 cups of cream, etc.) I err to more chocolate rather than less. I have used up to 5 oz. of chocolate to 2 cups of cream. I always use an instant read thermometer to heat the ice cream base (172 F) and then pour the mixture over the chocolate in a bowl off of the heat, whisking until all of the chocolate is smooth as silk. Hundreds of people say this is the best ice cream ever and I am always asked to bring it to pot lucks.

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