Black Forest Ice Cream

This Black Forest Ice Cream is a chocolate and vanilla swirl ice cream with cherries and chocolate bits. Made with a custard base, this chocolate cherry ice cream is cream and rich with the chocolate swirl tasting just like a fudgesicle.

Prep Time10

Cook Time20

Chilling3

Total Time3 30

Course: Afternoon Kaffee, Dessert

Cuisine: American, German

Keyword: chocolate cherry, ice cream

Servings: scoops

Calories: 232kcal

Equipment

Ice Cream Maker

Ingredients

Custard

4 ounces 60% chocolate
6 egg yolks
450 milliliters skim milk
450 milliliters heavy cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract

Add-Ins

110 grams sour cherries *or bourbon bada bing cherries
60 grams mini chocolate chips

Instructions

Custard

In one medium mixing bowl, place all 6 egg yolks. In a separate mixing bowl, melt the chocolate.
Pour the milk and heavy cream into a heavy bottomed sauce pot and heat over medium heat until just about to simmer.
Just before the milk and cream are hot, whisk the granulated sugar into the egg yolks until combined and smooth.
Place the bowl with egg yolks and sugar on a damp rag, take the pot with hot cream and milk off the heat.
Use a ladle to slowly add the milk and cream into the egg yolks while whisking constantly.
Continue adding the hot milk and cream and keep whisking the egg yolks until about half of the milk and cream have been added. This is called tempering the eggs.
Slowly ladle the tempered eggs back into the remaining cream and milk while constantly whisking the milk and cream.
Once all the tempered eggs have been added back in, return the pot to medium heat. Switch to a rubber spatula and stir the custard constantly while heating. Gently stir in a figure eight pattern and then around the edges of the pot.
Continue cooking until the custard has thickened, all of the bubbles from the surface will have disappeared.
Remove from the heat and ladle half of the hot custard through a sieve over the melted chocolate. Ladle the other half through a sieve into a new bowl.
Whisk the chocolate into the custard until it is smooth and no chocolate bits remain.
Cool both custards either in an ice bath (made with ice and water in a tray that the bowl is then set into) or cover the bowls and place them in the fridge until cold.

Churn and Assemble the Ice cream

Follow the instructions of your ice cream maker to make the chocolate ice cream. Once the consistency of soft serve, transfer to a bowl and place in the freezer.
Clean and refreeze the ice cream maker.
Follow the instructions of your ice cream maker to make the vanilla ice cream.
Once soft serve consistency, transfer back to the bowl it was in. Fold in the drained cherries and mini chocolate chips if using.
Place the ice cream into the freezer briefly and remove the chocolate ice cream. Let it soften slightly and whisk so that it is all the same consistency.
Line a loaf pan with parchment paper. Now that both ice creams are the same consistency use a scoop to scoop the vanilla and chocolate ice creams one after another into the pan.
Swirl briefly together and place in the freezer to set for at least 4 hours or up to overnight.

Notes

If you don't have an ice cream maker, see the FAQ's and Tips section in the blog post for an alternative method!

Making a custard base can be stressful but just go slow and steady and don't try to rush the process. Once set this ice cream will keep for at least two weeks or up to a month in the freezer if covered.

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