Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

For those who’re already pondering, “Can’t I simply decide up a bathtub of chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream from the grocery retailer?” To that I say, truthful level. Nevertheless, I consider that nothing is as scrumptious as home made. My Macedonian grandmother is most undoubtedly responsible, and I thank her for it!

This cookie dough ice cream is creamier, tastier, and all-around higher than store-bought, as a result of a) it’s made with love and b) I do know precisely what goes into it. Plus, it’s really easy to make in my ice cream maker, I’m already planning my subsequent batch.

Why It’s Value Making Cookie Dough Ice Cream From Scratch

• The creamiest texture. You’ll discover within the pictures that this ice cream is possibly a bit of extra yellow than different cookie dough ice cream recipes. That’s as a result of I exploit additional egg yolks within the base, which suggests an ultra-rich (dare I say) luxurious texture.
• Know your elements. This recipe makes use of elements which you could simply pronounce, together with eggs, milk, and sugar. There’s no mono-this or dextrose-that, simply on a regular basis staples.
• Ice cream, anytime. If cookie dough ice cream virtually on demand isn’t a convincing sufficient perk, I don’t know what’s.

For those who don’t have one already, this can be a signal to get your palms on an ice cream maker. For those who’re in search of a recipe to make with out an ice cream maker, although, try my 2-ingredient blender ice cream and no-churn cottage cheese ice cream.

Collect Your Ice Cream Elements

Together with the cookie dough, there are solely 7 elements you want to make the most effective chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream at house! I’ve included notes beneath. Scroll to the printable recipe card after the put up for the total recipe, adopted by a useful photograph step-by-step.

• Complete Milk and Heavy Cream – I exploit a mixture of the 2. For those who’d like, you may make this recipe with solely heavy cream or a mixture of heavy cream and half-and-half as an alternative.
• Sugar – Sugar doesn’t simply sweeten the ice cream, but it surely additionally helps stop giant ice crystals from forming, for a smoother, richer texture. Common granulated sugar works completely right here. I like to recommend including a pinch of salt, too.
• Egg Yolks – Separate the yolks from the eggs (I discover that is best to do when the eggs are at room temperature). I’ll typically repurpose the leftover egg whites into egg white wraps for lunch!
• Vanilla – You may as well mess around with further flavors, like including a bit of espresso powder for a mocha model.

Cookie Dough Elements

• Butter – Carry the butter to room temperature earlier than you begin.
• Sugar – You’ll want each brown sugar and granulated sugar for the dough. You possibly can substitute all of 1 kind of sugar for each if wanted.
• Flour – This recipe makes use of a variation of the dough for my mini chocolate chip cookies, with the choice to heat-treat the uncooked all-purpose flour (see beneath). 
• Chocolate Chips – I exploit semi-sweet mini chocolate chips for extra chocolate in each chew! However something goes, you may go for regular-sized chips, darkish chocolate chips, or chocolate chunks.
• Vanilla and Salt – For taste.

Serving Ideas

My favourite solution to take pleasure in this chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is how I think about Ben & Jerry’s meant: straight from the bathtub with a spoon, comfort-watching The Housewives. It’s scrumptious as-is or drizzled with scorching fudge sauce. 

Tips on how to Make Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Straining the custard is an additional step on this recipe (see earlier), but it surely actually does produce the silkiest home made ice cream! Give it a strive, you’ll see. Let’s get began.

First, Put together the Ice Cream

• Put together the ice cream base. To begin, mix milk, sugar, and 1 cup of heavy cream in a saucepan with a pinch of salt. Gently prepare dinner and stir the combination over low warmth till the sugar dissolves.
• Prep your different elements. In the meantime, pour the remaining cup of heavy cream into a big bowl, and set a fine-mesh sieve excessive. You’ll solely want this later, once we pressure the cooked custard into the cream.
• Mood the eggs. Subsequent, evenly whisk the yolks in a separate bowl. Then, when the milk combination begins to simmer on the edges of the pan, take it off the warmth. Slowly stream the recent milk into the egg yolks. Preserve whisking! As soon as that’s integrated, return the tempered combination to the saucepan.

• Cook dinner the custard. Cook dinner the combination over medium warmth and maintain stirring whereas it thickens. You need it to coat the again of a spoon with out operating off. 
• Pressure the custard. Lastly, take the custard off the range and cross it via your ready sieve, straining it into the bowl of cream. Give {that a} stir whereas mixing within the vanilla. 
• Cool. Place the bowl with the custard over a second bigger bowl with an ice bathtub. Stir on occasion because the combination cools off. Afterward, cowl the ice cream base and chill it within the fridge for 3-4 hours. Within the meantime, you’ll have loads of time to arrange the cookie dough.

Make the Cookie Dough

• Put together the dough. First, cream the butter with each sugars, then add the vanilla and salt. Slowly add the flour, and lastly, fold within the chocolate chips. It’s OK if the cookie dough is on the softer aspect, because it’ll be simpler to eat as soon as it’s frozen. 
• Chill and form the dough. Place your cookie dough within the fridge for 20 minutes. Then, whenever you’re prepared, divide the dough into small, ½-inch balls. Place these on a plate or sheet pan, and switch them to the freezer till it’s time to make the ice cream. 

Put It All Collectively

• Churn. If you’re able to make your cookie dough ice cream, take your custard out of the fridge and pour it into the ice cream maker. Churn in line with the producer’s instructions.
• Add the cookie dough. Within the final 3 minutes of churning, go away the machine operating, and drop the balls of cookie dough into the ice cream, a couple of at a time. 
• Freeze. Lastly, switch the ice cream to a container, then cowl and place it into the freezer till it’s agency (mine often takes about 4 hours). Get pleasure from!

Tips on how to Retailer

The easiest way to retailer this chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is in an hermetic, freezer-safe container. In any other case, wrap it tightly. You don’t want a specialty ice cream storage container, however in case you have one, use it!  Correctly saved, home made ice cream lasts about 1 month within the freezer.

A useful trick to maintain the ice cream from icing over is to press plastic wrap immediately towards the floor of the ice cream earlier than closing the lid.