Chocolate Ice Cream

/ Ice Cream / August 29, 2026
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This is our favorite chocolate ice cream. It is rich, smooth, chocolatey, and deeply satisfying.

Chocolate Ice Cream

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Servings: 4 cups
Ingredients Instructions Notes

Ingredients
  

Chocolate Flavor
  • ½ cup + 1 tsp King Arthur Bensdorp Dutch Process Cocoa OR Hershey’s Special Dark (=51 g)
  • 2 Tbsp Sugar (=30 g)
  • 2 tsp Vanilla (=8.7 g)
Ice Cream Base Mix
  • 1 cup Whole milk (=240 g)
  • 2 Whole pasteurized eggs (Large eggs)
  • 3/4 cup Sugar (=144 g)
  • Dash Salt
  • 2 cups Heavy whipping cream (=444 g, add later )

Instructions
 

Chocolate Flavor
  1. Measure Chocolate Flavor ingredients
Ice Cream Base Mix
  1. Put base mix ingredients except whipping cream into blender. Add Chocolate Flavor ingredients. Blend on High for 1 minute.
  2. Add whipping cream. Blend on Medium setting for 30 seconds.
  3. Freeze in ice cream machine.

Notes

We have tried 11 kinds of chocolate powder (see this post). Our top choices were:
King Arthur Bensdorp Dutch-Process Cocoa: Best
Hershey’s Special Dark: Very Good
 

For more information see Pasteurized Eggs Instruction Sheet

I did a blind taste test to compare different cocoa powders. Check out the results! Bensdorp and Hershey’s Special Dark were my favorites, but depending on what you like you may find another one is better for you.

Bensdorp Dutch-Process Cocoa is available from King Arthur Baking. Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa is available in most grocery stores. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Note: I heard recently that Hershey’s Special Dark Cocoa is temporarily not available. When I tried recently to buy Bensdorp Dutch Process Cocoa from King Arthur Flour, they were out of stock, although I was able to buy it in large quantities from a restaurant supply. If you are unable to buy either of these Dutch Process cocoa powders, another one I like is Rodelle Cocoa, available online from Costco. If you are looking for a smaller amount of Rodelle Cocoa, you can buy it on Amazon.

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