Homemade Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
"One of our family favorites for the ice cream machine. Prep time does not include the time for freezing."
photo by Boomette
- Ready In:
- 15mins
- Ingredients:
- 8
- Serves:
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8
ingredients
- 2 cups nonfat milk or 2 cups low-fat milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 cup sugar
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- 3 drops green food coloring (optional)
- 1 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips
directions
- In a large bowl, stir together the milk, cream, sugar, salt, vanilla extract and peppermint extract until the sugar has dissolved.
- Color to your liking with the green food coloring.
- Pour the mixture into an ice cream maker, and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions.
- About 10 minutes into the freezing, add the chocolate chips.
- About 30 minutes later, after the ice cream has thickened, spoon into a container and freeze for 2 hours.
Questions & Replies
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I'm guessing this makes a quart, though I don't see it stated anywhere. Only found one website so far that tells me how much there recipe makes. 8 servings doesn't mean a lot to me - what's a serving anyway. I have a 4 qt ice cream maker, and a greedy for homemade ice cream family. If I make 1 quart, well I did make 1 quart before and got chewed out and there was near bickering for the ice cream.
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Can you use this base for any flavor ice cream? I wanted to make peach or strawberry, etc. Thank you. The mint chocolate chip turned out AMAZING, but I did use heavy cream and half and half, no milk. -
Does this really need the sugar?? Want to eliminate it entirely. -
How could you tweak this to make other flavors? This turned out the best ever after trying many, mamy recipes over the years!
Reviews
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This was a hit! Used Splenda and stevia glycerite (12 packets + 2 tsp respectively). Also used crushed Oreos in place of the chocolate chips. Really tasty! -
So good! I added a splash more peppermint as I like strong mint flavor and used chopped up regular chocolate chips. -
This recipe was delicious. However, if you put crushed Oreos in there instead of chocolate chips, delicious. Try it!
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This is an awesome recipe! It came out perfect, considering this was the second time ever making ice cream!
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Tweaks
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I followed recipe I just doubled my ingredients.
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We doubled the recipe, and it made a perfect 4qrt! Without doubling, it's about a one to two quarts.
RECIPE SUBMITTED BY
CookingONTheSide
Carnegie, Pennsylvania
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