Steps for making the dark chocolate ice cream-

  1. Keep the cream and condensed milk in the fridge till the second you use it. Overnight ideally, it is summer!
  2. Mix the essence or flavouring (See below for choices) with the condensed milk in a different bowl, sift cocoa powder into this and mix well.
  3. Whip the cream in a cooled bowl, you need 2 bowls for this. In the first bowl keep 1 ice pack, over this keep a second bowl (the bowl in which you’re going to whip your cream) and another ice pack inside this as well, 2 bowls and 2 ice packs. This will take only about 15 minutes or so. Remove the ice pack from the bowl you are mixing it in (obviously).
  4. Add 400gms of chilled cream in the mixing bowl.
  5. Whip the cream using a stand mixer, hand mixer or immersion blender. For 3 minutes and then add a quarter cup condensed milk, essence and cocoa mixture and whip again for 3 minutes. Continue adding this mixture in intervals till it is complete.
  6. The consistency will be really creamy and you should see soft peaks.
  7. Freeze for a minimum of 4 hours.

Essences or flavourings that goes along with this ice cream:

  1. Vanilla Essence
  2. 2 tablespoons instant coffee with 2 tablespoons of hot water. This need to be a bit thick. Make this first and let it cool down, before adding it to the chilled cream and condensed milk mixture
  3. Tiramisu Essence
  4. Peppermint Essence
  5. Orange Essence
  6. Strawberry Essence