Chocolate Chilli Ice cream
Chocolate Chilli Ice Cream combines the rich flavour of dark chocolate and cream with the sweet heat of red chillies. It’s a stunning combination of hot, sweet and cold that will have you asking for more!
This has been on my list of ‘must makes’ for about two years since I first tasted it at the Appleby Manor Hotel. I love the combination of the rich chocolate, the cold ice-cream and the sweet heat of the chillies. We ate this on Christmas Eve with homemade mini mince pies filled with my Chocolate Mincemeat and it proved very popular, although my son would have been up for even more chilli!
The recipe is adapted from a couple of different ones, so here is what I did:
Chocolate Chilli Ice Cream
Rich chocolate ice cream infused with the heat of chillies. This sweet, hot and cold dessert is absolutely delicious.
Equipment
- 1 ice cream machine optional
Ingredients
- 600 ml double cream or 300ml milk and 300ml dbl cream
- 200 g dark chocolate
- 4 large egg yolks
- 100 g caster sugar
- 3 red chillies
- 1/4 tsp chilli powder
Instructions
- 600 ml double cream, 3 red chilliesSlice the chillies and add with the cream to a saucepan, include the chilli seeds.
- Warm the cream until just below boiling point then leave to infuse for 30 minutes.
- 1/4 tsp chilli powderStrain the chillies and seeds from the cream, add the chilli powder and reheat the cream.
- 4 large egg yolks, 100 g caster sugarMix the egg yolks and sugar in a bowl and slowly pour the cream onto the eggs stirring all the time.
- 200 g dark chocolateReturn the egg mixture to the saucepan along with 150g of the dark chocolate broken up into small pieces, heat gently stirring until the mixture thickens slightly. Remove from the heat and let it cool in the fridge.
- 200 g dark chocolateChop the rest of the chocolate and stir this into the mixture once it is cool.
With an Ice Cream Machine
- Pour the cooled mixture into the ice cream machine and follow the instructions for your machine.
- Once the ice cream is thick remove it from the machine and serve or put it into a container and store it in the freezer until you wish to use it.
Without an Ice Cream Machine
- if you don't have an ice cream machine then you can freeze the ice cream it in a shallow container.
- Freeze for 40 minutes then remove from the freezer and beat the mixture to break up the ice crystals. Do this every 30 minutes until the ice cream is thick and smooth.
- Remove the ice cream from the freezer 30 minutes before serving.
Nutrition
Calories: 657kcalCarbohydrates: 37gProtein: 7gFat: 55gSaturated Fat: 32gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 16gTrans Fat: 1gCholesterol: 268mgSodium: 54mgPotassium: 401mgFiber: 4gSugar: 26gVitamin A: 1895IUVitamin C: 33mgCalcium: 108mgIron: 5mg
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Love the sound of this, but I think I will wait for warmer days to try it.
Also have to say eek – as I've missed out on Sweet Heat this month.
Happy New Year Janice.
YUM! I love chocolate and chilli as a combo Janice!
Your ice-cream sounds absolutely perfect and I bet it went really well with your mince pies. What did folk think of your chocolate mincemeant BTW? Feedback I got was that it worked really well to counteract some of the sweetness of normal mince pies.
This sounds really interesting!
Oh Janice, this sounds A-MAZE-ING! x
I'd like to think I was brave enough to try this ice-cream as it sounds so interesting but I have a low heat tolerance when it comes to chilli and would probably wimp out 😉
I'm still on the fence with the chocolate and chili combo but I dont think I could say no to ice cream 🙂
Great looking ice cream but I am afraid I am very old fashioned when it comes to these things and prefer my chocolate ice cream straight up lol
I love chilli and chocolate so this is going to go on my list of things to try now!
I've just found your blog by googling chocolate chilli ice cream after my 11 yo created a recipe for us to have for pudding tonight. Yours looks like a great recipe too! You now have a new follower – a fellow foodblogger. 🙂
Many thanks for following, I'll hop over and visit your blog.
Janice, chili and chocolate together – fantastic! Thanks for linking up to Food on Friday. cheers
wow Chili ice cream 😀
Checking out your inspiring recipe on Jane Willis’ suggestion. I don’t think I’d be brave enough to add so much chilli. Was it very tongue-tingly? I imagine it works great with mince pies.
Thanks, Galina. It really isn’t hot at all, just enough kick coming through the chocolate to know that it is there.