Flavor #15 - Chocolate Chip

A basic but satisfying flavor, Chocolate Chip is a universal favorite. I don't make it too often. But when I have the right chocolate, it is a great way to end a meal.

It is a simple vanilla with some good Belgian chocolate. Believe it or not, there is a way to screw it up.

1 1/2 Cups Heavy Cream

1 1/2 Cups Milk

3/4 Cup of Sugar

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

1 Pinch of Salt

Six Blocks of Shaved Chocolate (Half a bar)

After putting together the mix for the Vanilla ice cream, take a standard bar of chocolate and shave it down with a vegetable peeler. The way to mess this up is to make the chocolate pieces too big, or even use chocolate chips. What most people do not realize is that after a hard freeze, a thick piece of chocolate is really hard to bite into.  Think of a time when you may have frozen a candy bar and how hard it was to initially get through it. Make your chocolate pieces too think and you will regret it. I used some chocolate we had around the house. Mix it in when moving the ice cream from the machine to the container.

Commercial ice cream uses a specially manufacture chocolate with chemical additives that will keep the chocolate softer at temps well below freezing. They do the same with a lot of the products mixed in to your ice cream. Another reason why the small batch retailer is catching on.  This batch is half gone within 24 hours.

Enjoy!