Chocolate Mint Ice Cream

Total Time: 3 hrs Preparation Time: 3 hrs

Ingredients

• Servings: 4
• 1 cup spearmint, leaves (preferably)
• 1/3 cup superfine sugar
• 3 ounces semisweet chocolate
• 2 eggs, separated
• 1 1/3 cups heavy cream

Recipe

• 1 mix the spearmint leaves with half of the sugar and chop as finely as possible.
• 2 set a bowl over a pan of simmering water and melt 2 ounces of the chocolate; remove from heat.
• 3 add the egg yolks and whisk until creamy; let cool.
• 4 whip the cream until soft peaks form, then fold in the chopped spearmint.
• 5 fold the whipped spearmint cream into the cooled chocolate mixture.
• 6 freeze the mixture in a 2 quart dish.
• 7 when the ice cream becomes crisp at the edges, whisk for two minutes.
• 8 return mixture to the freezer and continue whisking process (previous step) every 45 minutes until it is just set.
• 9 whisk the egg whites until soft peaks form.
• 10 fold in the remaining sugar, then fold into the frozen ice cream.
• 11 finally grate the remaining 1 ounce chocolate and stir into the ice cream.
• 12 return the ice cream to the freezer until completely set.
• 13 delicious served decorated with chocolate dipped spearmint leaves.