Chocolate Chili Ice Cream Recipe (2024)

FAQs

What does chocolate chili ice cream taste like? ›

Rich dark chocolate smoothly combined with the slow-burn of ground chilis, it's one of those flavors where the heat hits you late in the spoonful rather than right away.

It adds richness, deeper flavor, and umami. In vegetarian or vegan recipes where there is no meat, unsweetened chocolate can be an especially important way to add that depth. The chocolate makes the ground chiles and other spices perk up and taste more like themselves.

It's the fat. The milk fat in ice cream is mostly what gives ice cream that creamy rich taste and feeling in your mouth. The creamiest ice creams have about 16% fat and the least creamy have about 10% fat.

One of the first ice cream flavors I developed was Mexican Chocolate. I used the Mexican hot chocolate for the milk portion of the ice cream, then added cocoa, vanilla, cinnamon, cream, and cayenne pepper. The result was amazing. It's like deep, rich chocolate with a sneaky little kick of heat at the end.

The flavor, called Devil's Breath, is the world's spiciest ice cream! It's made with the world's hottest chili pepper, the Carolina Reaper. Chilies are spicy because they contain a chemical called capsaicin (kap-SAY-uh-suhn).

Sili ice cream is a Filipino ice cream flavor prepared using labuyo chili, coconut milk, puréed strawberries and sugar. It was invented by the 1st Colonial Grill restaurant in Albay in 2004 and has since become a highly popular flavor.

Cocoa Powder

Chocolate might not be the first thing you think of when you're making a batch of chili but it pairs perfectly with peppers. Adding just a teaspoon or two of unsweetened cocoa powder like we do in our Instant Pot Chili (pictured above) will make your go-to recipe rich and flavorful.

Cincinnati-Style Chili

While the stew also relied on cumin, beef, and some chile pepper, the brothers added ingredients that were more at home in a Mediterranean kitchen, like paprika and allspice, as well as the style's distinctive combo of cinnamon and chocolate.

Cocoa powder adds a rich depth of flavor to chili. There isn't a prominent chocolate taste, just extra deliciousness from something that you can't quite pinpoint. Use unsweetened cocoa powder or cacao powder so it doesn't make the finished dish sweet.

A tantalizing fusion of vanilla ice cream, our legendary Forbidden Chocolate® and ribbons of decadent fudge. It's a pleasure worth sharing.

What thickens homemade ice cream? ›

Egg Yolks: The most traditional thickening agent, egg yolks contain natural proteins and fats that contribute to a rich and luxurious texture in custard-based ice creams. Cornstarch: Often used in non-custard ice creams, cornstarch mixed with milk helps thicken the base and create a smooth mouthfeel.

Rich chocolate enlivened with cinnamon and spicy chillies

From the clay pot of the Mexican kitchen comes the alluring combination of chocolate, cinnamon, and a little spice.

“This is mostly because of the incredible abundance of fruit,” she says. In Mexican Ice Cream, Gerson writes for an audience of home cooks with electric ice cream machines, but the recipes channel many of the flavors and ingredients from her hometown of Mexico City, like tres leches, soursop, guava, and horchata.

And that rich chocolate satisfying your taste buds? That's real cocoa we use. In fact, we only use real ingredients and colors and flavors from natural sources. Starting with real high quality ingredients is what we think makes the best chocolate ice cream.

This gourmet chocolate has a rich dark brown color and subtle, spicy aroma. Experience how this smooth dark chocolate begins with sweetness on tongue and then slowly yields to the delightful spiciness of red chilli.

This chocolate is very hot and not for the faint hearted!

Chocolate and chili come together in a taste symphony that combines the intoxication of chocolate with the spicy exhilaration of heat. Spicy chocolate explodes on the palate and, because of how potently healthful these foods are, they then go on to help the body feel good.