Easy Cherry Chocolate Chunk Ice Cream Recipes

EASY CHERRY-CHOCOLATE CHUNK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Place cherries in a food processor; process into small pieces.
• Mix heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, milk, and vanilla extract together until well combined. Pour into an ice cream maker and turn on. Add the chopped cherries while the machine is running; freeze until desired consistency is reached, about 20 minutes. Stir in chocolate chunks.

CHERRY CHOCOLATE-CHUNK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Combine the milk, 1/4 cup sugar, salt, and vanilla bean in a medium saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook, stirring, until sugar is dissolved; remove from heat.
• In a medium bowl, whisk together remaining sugar and yolks; set aside. Remove vanilla bean from milk mixture, and discard. Bring the milk mixture just to a simmer. Using a measuring cup or a ladle, slowly pour about 1/2 cup of the hot milk mixture into the egg-yolk mixture, whisking constantly. Keep adding milk mixture, about 1/2 cup at a time until it has all been added.
• Pour mixture back into saucepan, and cook over low heat, stirring constantly with a wooden spoon, until mixture is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon, 5 to 8 minutes The custard should retain a line drawn across the back of a the spoon with your finger. Pour through a fine sieve into a medium bowl; discard vanilla bean. Stir in heavy cream; let cool completely. Cover and transfer to refrigerator until chilled at least 1 hour and up to overnight.
• Place cherries in a small bowl and cover with rum; set aside. Pour custard into an ice-cream maker and process according to manufacturers' instructions. During the last minute of processing, add cherries and their liquid, along with chocolate. Continue processing until set, but not hard.
• Transfer the soft ice cream to a plastic container, freeze at least 3 hours and up to overnight.

CHOCOLATE CHERRY CHUNK ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Chop bittersweet chocolate and place in blender with sugar.
• Pulse to process the sugar with the chocolate until the chocolate is very finely chopped.
• Heat 1 cup half-and-half till until bubbling around the edges.
• Add the hot half-and-half to blender and process until well blended and smooth.
• Transfer chocolate mixture to medium bowl and let cool completely.
• Stir in remaining 1/2 cup half-and-half, heavy cream and vanilla.
• Chill mixture for at least 30 minutes.
• Freeze mixture according to your ice cream maker directions adding cherries and chopped chocolate bar in last few minutes.

3-INGREDIENT CHOCOLATE CHERRY DUMP CAKE

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F. Spray bottom of 13x9-inch (3-quart) glass baking dish with cooking spray.
• Spread pie filling in baking dish.
• Top with dry cake mix; gently shake pan to distribute evenly.
• Pour melted butter over top, tilting pan to cover as much of top with butter as possible.
• Bake 42 to 45 minutes or until mostly dry on top and bubbly around edges. Cool 10 minutes before serving. Serve warm with whipped topping or ice cream.

CHERRY CHOCOLATE CHIP ICE CREAM

Steps:

• In a small bowl combine the Cherries with the lemon juice and Kirsh, and 1/2 cup of the sugar. Let the cherries macerate in the juices for at least 2 hours or overnight. Strain the cherries, and reserve the juices.
• In a medium mixing bowl use a hand mixer on low speed to mix the milk vanilla, and sugar, until the sugar is dissolved, about 2 minutes. Stir in the heavy cream, the reserved cherry juices, and cherry flavoring. Mix ice cream in your ice cream maker, until thickened. In the meantime chop the dark chocolate very finely, the recipe says 2/3 cup, but use more if you love chocolate! When the ice cream is starting to thicken, add the chocolate, and about five minutes before the mixing is complete, you may add the cherries. The ice cream will be soft. If you want a firmer texture, transfer it to an airtight container, and place in your freezer for a few hours.

NO-CHURN CHOCOLATE-CHERRY ICE CREAM

Steps:

• Stir together sweetened condensed milk and cocoa powder for ice cream in a large bowl, then add in cherries and chocolate chunks.
• Beat cream and vanilla extract in a chilled glass or metal bowl with an electric mixer until soft peaks form.
• Carefully fold whipped cream into the condensed milk mixture until fully combined.
• Split the mixture between two loaf pans and garnish with cherries and chocolate.
• Press plastic wrap onto the surface of the mixture so it rests on top, and put another sheet across the sides of the pans.
• Freeze until firm, about 8 hours.