Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

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Mint chocolate chip ice cream is cold and refreshing with a delicious creamy mouthfeel. This no-churn recipe features mint-flavored chocolate chip ice cream with thick swirls of hot fudge topping. A special summer treat.

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💚 Why We Love This Recipe

• You don’t need a specialized ice cream machine to make this no-churn ice cream recipe. All you need is a stand mixer with whip attachment, or a mixing bowl and an electric hand mixer or a cordless hand mixer.
• It’s a simple recipe with minimal ingredients. It’s also customizable. Feel free to adjust the mint flavoring to taste. You can add green food coloring or leave it out. For a super chocolaty experience, you can add more chocolate chunks and/or swirl in more hot fudge topping.
• Making mint chocolate chip ice cream is a fun summer activity. It’s an ideal recipe to make with kids and teens. The end result is delicious and satisfying. You can even make this dessert in several different flavors.

🛒 Ingredients

• Heavy Whipping Cream: Also known as “heavy cream.” It should be very cold – straight from the fridge. If desired, you can substitute with double cream instead. With a higher fat content, the mint chocolate chip cream will be extra rich.
• Sweetened Condensed Milk: Is the base of our no-churn ice cream. It’s thick, rich and perfectly sweet. Make sure to use sweetened condensed milk, NOT evaporated milk.
• Pure Mint Extract: It gives our chocolate chip ice cream a delicious minty flavor. But feel free to use peppermint extract instead, if that’s what you have on hand.
• Pure Vanilla Extract: It balances out the minty taste, and provides this dessert with an old-fashioned ice cream parlor flavor and aroma.
• Kosher Salt: Enhances the flavor of the other ingredients.
• Green Gel Food Coloring: This is optional. We use it to give the mint chocolate chip ice cream a traditional light-green color. For the ideal tint, I use AmeriColor’s Mint Green gel food coloring. But feel free to select a green gel food color from Wilton, or your favorite brand.
• Ghirardelli Semi-Sweet Chocolate Baking Bar: We coarsely chop it and fold it in. I prefer the texture of the small chunks and shavings to that of mini chocolate chips. And another plus: the Ghirardelli chocolate bar is made with higher-quality chocolate than most chocolate chips. But feel free to use chocolate chips if that’s what you have on hand.
• Hot Fudge Topping: Make sure it’s thick hot fudge topping, not thin chocolate sauce. When swirled over the surface of the mint chocolate chip ice cream, this room-temperature topping adds a thick delicious texture, more chocolaty goodness, and a rich luxurious mouthfeel. At the market, look for it at an end-cap display or aisle near the frozen desserts/ice cream section. Or make it at home from scratch.

📖 Recipe Steps

RECIPE PREP: Chill the bowl of a stand mixer and the whisk attachment in the freezer for 15 minutes. Line a metal 9×5-inch loaf pan with 2 layers of parchment paper. Stick the pan in the freezer to chill for at least 15 minutes.

1. Pour heavy cream into the chilled bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment. Whip on medium speed for 3 to 4 minutes or until stiff peaks form.
2. Unhook and remove the bowl from the stand mixer. Pour in the sweetened condensed milk, mint extract, vanilla extract, a pinch of salt, and green food coloring. With a rubber spatula, fold the creamy mixture together until just combined. Do not overmix.
3. Gently fold in the chopped chocolate.
4. Transfer half the ice cream base into the prepared loaf pan. Drizzle 1/4 cup hot fudge topping over the surface.

1. Add remaining ice cream base to the pan. Spread it into an even layer and smooth out the top. Spoon remaining hot fudge topping over the surface in ribbon-like swirls.
2. Tightly cover the pan in 2 layers of plastic wrap. Freeze the mint chip ice cream for at least 5 hours or overnight until thick and creamy. It should be the consistency of soft-serve ice cream – firm and scoopable.
3. After it’s frozen, place a layer of parchment in direct contact with the surface of the ice cream to block out air. Then wrap the pan tightly in a double layer of plastic wrap. Store the mint chip ice cream toward the back of the freezer to avoid ice crystal formation.

🥄 How to Serve Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

• Scoop it into a dessert cup with spoon, or an ice cream cone.
• Top it with hot fudge, salted caramel sauce or whipped cream.
• If desired, sprinkle with chocolate jimmies.
• Enjoy immediately.

👩🏻‍🍳 Recipe FAQ

These are the most commonly-asked questions when making no-churn mint chocolate chip ice cream, and the most helpful answers for recipe success.

🍨 More No-Churn Ice Cream Recipes

If you love cool refreshing treats like mint chip ice cream, you’ll also love yogurt fruit ice pops and these popular ice cream flavors and recipes.

• Birthday Cake Ice Cream
• Salted Caramel Ice Cream
• Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
• Cookie Monster Ice Cream

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Flavor testers rated this the BEST no-churn mint chocolate chip ice cream. They were delighted with the rich creamy texture, and the distinct ice-cream shop flavor and aroma. They couldn’t get enough of the delicious chunks of chocolate, and the thick swirls of hot fudge. They all went back for seconds.

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