White Chocolate Ice Cream

Pairing White Chocolate Ice Cream with a delectable berries makes for a scrumptious dessert any time of year! But when temps really heat up, this luscious homemade ice cream will knock your socks off!

Break out your ice cream maker and pick up a few simple ingredients and your family will inhale their scoops of this frozen white chocolate treat!

White Chocolate Ice Cream

Through a serendipitous turn of events, I received David Lebovitz’s  delightful cookbook, The Perfect Scoop, as a gift. Ironically, I first made this dreamy white chocolate ice cream in the middle of winter! Though my common sense called for waiting until our temperatures broke freezing before making one of his luscious ice cream recipe, my family encouraged me to drag out my ice cream maker despite the weather. This recipe was calling my name!

Needless to say, it did not disappoint. Thumbs up from even the pickiest members of the family. If you like white chocolate as much as I do, this ice cream needs to be on your must make recipe list. I promise you’ll love it.

Tips for Making the Best Ice Cream

The most difficult task was determining which ice cream recipe to make first. Katie and I voted for white chocolate, while Nick stood his ground choosing one of the three more traditional chocolate recipes.  So I did what any good mother would do: I made both.

• Eyeing the recipe often gives a clue to success. Seeing this ice cream had 5 egg yolks, heavy cream and white chocolate assured me the results would be rich and creamy!
• But the process requires a little finesse or you’ll end up with scrambled eggs!

• First up, the vessel that came with your ice cream maker must be very cold. I make sure it’s been frozen a full 24 hours.
• Store your canister, wrapped in a plastic bag to prevent frost from developing, in the freezer so that you can make ice cream anytime the desire hits you!

• The directions call to heat together the milk sugar and salt. This hot mixture is then added to whisked egg yolks. What can happen when a hot liquid is added to raw yolks? You got it: scrambled eggs!
• Though this milk mixture is supposed to be warm, not boiling hot, you still must be careful to add the milk very slowly while whisking constantly.

• PRO-Tip: Not necessary, but I find it useful to transfer the heated milk mixture to a 4 cup Pyrex measuring cup. This lets you control your pour more easily.
• You do use a wire sieve to strain this mixture which will remove any small egg bits. But the more yolk that’s incorporated into the ice cream, the better mouth feel the ice cream will have.

• Refrigerating the custard (egg and cream mixture) ensures that the mixture is cold enough to solidify in your ice cream maker. Whether the flavor is enhanced or the ice cream is creamier after the long chilling time, neither have been scientifically proven.
• So just make sure your mixture is nice and cold before processing which may take only 6-8 hours instead of overnight. But longer is always safest.

• If you’re adding nuts, toffee bits, chocolate chips, etc., they don’t need to be added until the ice cream is almost finished churning. Vanilla or other flavorings should be added just before churning.
• Store your ice cream covered with plastic (or in a container with a tight lid) for up to 1 week.

More Delicious Ice Cream Recipes:

It’s great fun to experiment with homemade ice cream. This white chocolate ice cream is fabulous topped with berries, berry sauce, hot fudge, caramel sauce or anything your heart desires!

• Another favorite ice cream recipe is this Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Sauce, which has a triple dose of chocolate!
• And if you’re more of a purist, a Vanilla Bean Ice Cream should hit the spot. 
• Cheesecake Ice Cream
• Fudge Topped Chocolate Ice Cream Pie
• Cake Batter Ice Cream
• Fresh Peach Ice Cream
• Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream Pie
• More Dessert Recipes

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White Chocolate Ice Cream

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A luscious, rich ice cream flavored with white chocolate!

• Author: Liz Berg
• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Cook Time: 5 minutes
• Total Time: 20 minutes
• Yield: 1 quart 1x
• Category: Dessert. Ice Cream
• Method: Melting, Mixing, Heating, Churning
• Cuisine: American

Ingredients

8 ounces white chocolate, chopped

1 cup whole milk

2/3 cup sugar

Pinch of salt

5 egg yolks

2 cups heavy cream

Instructions

Put the chopped white chocolate in large bowl and set aside.

Heat milk, sugar and salt in saucepan until warm to the touch.

In another bowl, whisk together the egg yolks, then slowly add the warm milk mixture while whisking continuously.

Return mixture to pan and cook until the mixture thickens.  Pour hot mixture through sieve onto chocolate.  Stir till chocolate is smooth and melted.  Add cream.

Refrigerate overnight or until mixture is very cold.   Pour into ice cream maker process via the manufacturer’s instructions.

When frozen, scrape into a freezer safe container with a lid, cover and keep in the freezer until ready to serve.

Serve with fudge sauce, raspberry sauce or fresh berries.

Notes

Recipe adapted from David Lebovitz

This white chocolate ice cream recipe was first shared in 2011. The photos and text were updated in 2019. This survey was done early in my blogging days!

Annie of Annie’s Dish tagged me in a recent post.  I have to answer 9 questions about myself.
So here it goes…

1. What do you refuse to eat?

Brains, organ meats…but I will try most everything else once.

2. What is the most ethnic dish you have ever made?

I rarely make anything very exotic…paella? samosas? Dorie’s Vietnamese soup?

3. Salt or Sweet?

I love salt, but not the poofiness it give me!

4. What kitchen gadget can you not live without?

Just one?  My santoku knife

5. Last restaurant you ate at?

Recess: Greg Hardesty’s culinary playground

6. Where would you like to live if you could move anywhere in the world?

Where ever my family and friends are…so for now, Indianapolis.  But I wouldn’t mind jetting to Aspen in the summer, Charleston in the winter, and Tuscany when the mood strikes…

7. What is your blog about?

Sharing decadent desserts that I make for my family and friends…I’ve added in savory recipes, too, as I try to remain a skinny chick and too many tempting goodies around the house can be detrimental to that goal…

8. Do you have pets?

A sweet yellow lab named Lambeau…in case you aren’t familiar with the Super Bowl champion Green Bay Packers, their stadium is Lambeau Field; and Miss Lambeau was named for Curly Lambeau.  Her name is not the female version of Rambo…her only destructive behavior involves food, sticks and remote controls.

9. What’s the last city you visited?

I don’t think Ames, Iowa is really considered a city…so guess it was Chicago.