Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

/ Ice Cream / January 20, 2026
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Delicious mint flavored ice cream with chocolate swirled in

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This ice cream is made in two steps. First prepare the chocolate. Then make the mint ice cream. After the ice cream is frozen, fold in the chocolate.
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Servings: 6 cups
Ingredients Instructions

Ingredients
  

Chocolate
  • 4 oz Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chips (=113 g)
  • 4 Tbs Butter (=56 g)
Mint Flavor
  • 1/2 tsp McCormick Pure Mint Extract (Not peppermint extract)
  • 3 drops Green food color (Optional)
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
  1. Combine the butter and the chocolate chips in a glass microwave safe bowl. Heat in microwave till melted (approximately 15-30 seconds), stir together until well blended and all lumps are gone. Set aside.
Mint Flavor
  1. Measure Mint Flavor
Ice Cream Base Mix
  1. Put base mix ingredients except whipping cream in blender. Add Mint Flavor, and food color if desired. Blend on High for 1 minute.
  2. Add whipping cream. Blend on Medium setting for 30 seconds.
  3. Freeze in ice cream machine.
Combine
  1. During the last few seconds of freezing, pour the chocolate (reheat chocolate in microwave if needed to make it pourable) into the ice cream as it is churning to swirl it in.

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