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Chocolate ice cream
This recipe can only be blamed on Ben and Jerry. Actually, it's Jerry's, if you have their book. Grateful acknowledgements. I think it's the best recipe in their book, but if you want to check, you'll have to get the book yourself, won't you.



Ingredients
2 ounces or 50 g unsweetened chocolate (with over 45% choccy solids in it, for choice)
1/3 cup or 80 ml unsweetened cocoa powder.
1 1/2 cups, 375 ml milk
2 large eggs
1 cup or 250 ml sugar
1 cup or 250 ml heavy or whipping cream
1 teaspoon vanilla extract


Method

This first bit will take 15 minutes or more.
Melt the unsweetened chocolate in a glass mixing bowl over hot (not quite boiling) water. Gradually whisk in all the cocoa a bit at a time, stirring all the time. It will 'seize' if you are using good choc: that is OK. Then stir in the milk a bit at a time, and dissolve the choc mixture into the milk. When this is done, let it cool completely, preferably to fridge temperature.

This bit is quick:
Whisk the eggs in a mixing bowl at high speed until they are light and fluffy, for a  couple of minutes. Slowly add all the sugar, and blend. Then add the cream and vanilla and blend.  Then mix in the chocolate mixture from the first bit, and again, chill before putting the mixture into an ice cream maker.

This mixture is quite hard to freeze because it freezes well below 0 degrees centigrade, so make sure that the mixture and the ice cream maker's bowl are really cold before you start freezing the ice cream.


Tasty extras:

Jerry suggests adding chocolate chips just before the mixture freezes, but we don't find that this does a lot for the ice cream because it's so chocolatey already.  We do have a much more sinful alternative, however! 
Alcoholic cherries!  When the cherry season hits in Australia (just before Christmas), we bottle cherries with gin and sugar, and leave them for 3 months to make something very nice to drink. But what to do with the cherries afterwards? Cut them into quarters, and put those into the ice cream instead of choccy chips! The anti-freeze in the cherries makes the ice cream even softer, (it'll scoop at the coldest deep-freeze temperature), but the flavour is quite out of this world, and the groan ups just have to eat it all!


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