Cookie Dough Ice Cream
This is a creamy golden colored cookie dough flavored ice cream that stays soft thanks to a little honey (which also adds flavor, but not too much) and vodka.
Servings 8 half cups
Cost 5
Ingredients
- ⅓ cup white sugar (65 grams)
- 5 tablespoons brown sugar (60 grams)
- ⅛ tsp salt
- ¼ teaspoon xanthan gum (optional)
- 1 ½ cups heavy cream
- 1 ½ cups whole milk
- 4 large egg yolks
- 2 teaspoons vanilla bean paste
- ¼ teaspoon butter flavoring or extract (optional)
- 1 tablespoon honey (20 grams)
- ½ tablespoon vodka
Cookie Dough and Melting Chocolate Chunks
- ½ roll chocolate chip cookie dough, crumbled (use as much or little as you like)
- ½ cup dark chocolate chips or 3 oz dark chocolate
- 1 teaspoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Mix together the sugars, salt and xanthan gum in a medium saucepan, then whisk in the cream and all but ¼ cup of the milk. Set over medium heat and heat just until it begins to bubble around the edges and is very hot.
- While the cream mixture is heating, whisk together the egg yolks and the reserved ¼ cup of milk in a medium size bowl. It's helpful to have one with a spout.
- Gradually whisk the hot cream mixture into the egg yolk mixture, then pour the mixture back into the pan and cook over low to medium low heat, whisking or stirring constantly, until mixture is about 180 degrees F.
- Pour the mixture into a clean bowl, let cool slightly. Add the honey, vanilla paste, and butter flavoring (if using). Cover and chill for several hours or even overnight until very cold.
- Right before churning, add ½ tablespoon of vodka to the cold custard and whisk well. Pour into the ice cream maker and freeze according to the ice cream machine directions.
- While the ice cream base is chilling or anywhere else earlier in the process, mix together ½ cup dark chocolate chips (or 3 oz chopped dark chocolate) and 1 teaspoon of coconut oil. Melt at 50% power in the microwave. Spoon the melted mixture onto a small tray or dinner plate lined with parchment paper, then freeze. Break or chop into chunks.
- To pack, cut or crumble the cold cookie dough and add it along with chunks of your solid chocolate bits to the ice cream as you pack it into the containers. You should get a little over two pints.