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Gourmet Choc Ices

July 28, 2014 By Kerry Cooks Leave a Comment

Gourmet Choc Ices - recipe at kerrycooks.com

Gourmet Choc Ices - recipe at kerrycooks.com

 While having lunch with my friend Edward last week, we were pondering the humble choc ice and considering just how good they are on a hot summers day (such as the ones we’re blessed with right now in the UK!). I realised that no one had yet ‘gourmet-ised’ (I just invented that word) the choc ice, and I decided to have a go!

I was dreaming of great quality vanilla ice cream, a thick layer of delicious chocolate, and a crunchy topping of toasted pecan nuts… fairly simple, but delicious! I used Green & Blacks Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt, mixed with plain chocolate, for a good not too sweet flavour.

These would be super fun to make with kids or as a delicious weekend treat with your other half. I can’t deny that they are on the messy side (to make and to eat!) but when you’re talking about melty chocolate and melty ice cream, that’s a little inevitable! Embrace the mess and have fun!

You can also use a mould to make the ice creams a more traditional ice cream shape – you can find one here. And you can get some excellent value wooden lolly sticks here!

Gourmet Choc Ices
2014-07-25 16:48:25
Yields 7
A homemade version of a classic! Customise your choc ice however you like it!
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Prep Time
45 min
Prep Time
45 min
675 calories
82 g
38 g
35 g
8 g
20 g
179 g
68 g
67 g
0 g
5 g
Nutrition Facts
Serving Size
179g
Yields
7
Amount Per Serving
Calories 675
Calories from Fat 316
% Daily Value *
Total Fat 35g
54%
Saturated Fat 20g
101%
Trans Fat 0g
Polyunsaturated Fat 1g
Monounsaturated Fat 4g
Cholesterol 38mg
13%
Sodium 68mg
3%
Total Carbohydrates 82g
27%
Dietary Fiber 7g
29%
Sugars 67g
Protein 8g
Vitamin A
8%
Vitamin C
1%
Calcium
14%
Iron
16%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet. Your Daily Values may be higher or lower depending on your calorie needs.
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Ingredients
  1. 500g good very good quality vanilla ice cream (or the ice cream of your choice)
  2. 650g chocolate - I used a mixture of Green & Blacks Milk Chocolate with Sea Salt, and Tesco Plain Chocolate
  3. Toasted nuts, marshmallows, and sprinkles - to decorate your ice creams
Instructions
  1. Firstly, soften your ice cream until it's easily spoonable, and spoon it from it's container into a rectangular tupperware tub. Pop it back into the freezer to re-freeze.
  2. Once the ice cream is again hard, remove the tub from the freezer, and go around the edges of the tupperware tub with a knife run under the hot tap. Remove the rectangle of ice cream from the tub and place it on a cutting board, and use the same hot sharp knife to cut it into five equal rectangles of ice cream. Push a lolly stick into each one and then pop them all onto a piece of parchment paper on a cookie sheet and pop back into the freezer until again very hard.
  3. Once the ice cream is well frozen, melt your chocolate in preperation. You'll be dunking your ice creams into the chocolate, so melt it in a wide shallow bowl that your ice creams will fit in. You'll also need to have your toppings ready at this point, so get them to hand and good to go.
  4. Remove the ice creams from the freezer and immediately dunk one side, then the other in the chocolate until completely coated - I used a tablespoon to help with this. Replace immediately on the parchment paper, working quickly. Scatter on toppings and then pop the ice creams back into the freezer for around 30 minutes, at which point they should be completely hard and ready to enjoy in the sunshine!
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35g
protein
8g
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 Do you think I can get away with just freezing a stick of cookie dough and covering it in chocolate next? I vote yes!

x Kerry

 

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