My favorite ice cream is the one I make at home. I know exactly what goes in it and I know that everything is cooked and how it is prepared.
I use the following:
- 4 egg yolks
- 1 cup sugar
- 1 pint heavy cream
- 1 pint light cream
- flavoring as desired (this time I used about 1/3 a lb. of dark chocolate)
I whisk the egg yolks and sugar together in a bowl until “fluffy”, or buttery looking.
Whisked Eggs and Sugar
While I am doing this I take the pints of cream, pour them into a pot and bring them to a low boil. I then temper the eggs with the boiled cream, and end up pouring everything back into the pot to cook some more. If this were vanilla ice cream, I would have cooked the vanilla bean in the cream, but for chocolate, I add the chunks of chocolate to the tempered eggs and cream mix and boil until blended and there is a covering on the back of a wooden spoon. (The first few times I was not sure what recipes meant by this, but in time you will figure out what you need it to look like.)
Cooling mixture
From there I poured the mix into a bowl and let it cool so I could put it in the fridge over night. Then add to ice cream maker and follow instructions.
Best darn ice cream I have ever had. Never too hard and not soft serve either.
