Dark Chocolate Coconut Ice Cream
This is a gorgeous Dark Chocolate Paleo & Keto Ice cream that is not for the faint of heart. It's richness resembles Chocolate Moose Tracks and is definitely more of a mom ice cream than a child's! Enjoy!
Equipment
- Saucepan & whisk
- Ice Cream Maker or Ice Cream Bowl Attachment
- Freezer safe glass container
Ingredients
- 4 cups coconut milk or cream
- 4 egg yolks
- 1/2 - 1 tsp monk fruit powder (I use 1 tsp and omit the other sweeteners)
- 2 tbsp chicory root sweetener just like sugar
- 1 tbsp beef gelatin
- 1-2 tsp vegetable glycerine
- 4 oz chocolate baking bar finely chopped and melted into cream
- 1/2 cup cocoa powder
- 1 tsp vanilla
- 1 tsp vodka or whiskey optional
Instructions
- Heat the coconut cream in a saucepan to 175ºF
- Add sweeteners while whisking
- Add beef gelatin while whisking
- Add gelatin and whisk
- Separate eggs and whisk the yolks
- Scoop out about a half cup of the hot coconut cream and start to drizzle it into the egg yolks while whisking. Keep adding until you have combined them. Repeat with another half cup of cream until eggs are fully tempered.
- Add the cream and egg yolk mixture back into the saucepan of cream and whisk.
- Add the finely chopped chocolate and whisk.
- Add the cacao powder and whisk until smooth.
- Add vanilla and whisk. (and vodka if using)
- Pour contents into a heat safe dish and refrigerate 2 hours or overnight.
- Pour into ice cream maker and set for 20 minutes. Alternatively you can freeze it and pull it out every twenty minutes to stir it until it is set.