Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is the best homemade cherry chip ice cream recipe and it's super easy to make. Made with fresh cherries, chocolate chips, heavy cream, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and sugar. This cherry ice cream recipe will be the hit at your summer events!
Homemade cherry chocolate chip ice cream is delicious all year round, but it's especially delicious during cherry season! Cherries are at their peak right now at supermarkets and farmer's markets so grab a basket and make this cherry chocolate chunk ice cream. Check out my other famous ice cream recipes like my Homemade Chocolate Orange Ice Cream and my Oreo Ice Cream Recipe looking for more desserts? Try my Strawberry Turnovers recipe or my Blueberry Milkshake
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🍒 Ingredients For Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients For Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream
What you'll need for Cherry Chunk Ice Cream
- Pitted Sweet Cherries pitted, halved or quartered
- Heavy Cream
- Condensed Milk
- Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Chocolate Chips ( bittersweet chocolate milk chocolate or dark chocolate both work well )
Equipment You'll need for black cherry chocolate chip ice cream
- Ice Cream Maker ( I love my Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker )
- Cherry Pitter ( Whoever invented this is a genius! )
See recipe card below for quantities
🍒 Instructions For Cherry Chocolate Ice Cream
Let's make Homemade Cherry Ice Cream
Step 1: Wash and pit the cherries
Step 2: Now we are going to prepare the cherries for the ice cream. Put the prepared cherries into a small saucepan with 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of water.
Step 3: Bring to a boil over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, and using a potato masher to mash the cherries for about 4 to 6 minutes, or until the cherries are soft and syrupy.
Step 4: Simmer the cherries on low heat until the sauce starts to thicken. Once the cherry sauce is thick, remove from heat, Put it in a container, cover it, and refrigerate.
Step 5: Next, let's prep our cherry ice cream mixture. Gather the heavy cream, vanilla extract, and sugar.
Step 6: In a large mixing bowl, combine the heavy cream, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and sugar. Mix until well combined. This is the ice cream mixture.
Step 7: Let's make our cherry ice cream! Add the prepared ice cream custard to an ice cream machine. Let the machine mix the ice cream for at least 20 minutes. The longer the better peaks your cherry ice cream will have. After 20 minutes of churning, add the cooled cherry syrup to the ice cream machine.
Step 8: While our chocolate cherry ice cream is mixing in the ice cream machine, we are going to melt the chocolate chips. Adding melted chocolate at the end of the ice cream process, will make chocolate chips and ensure the cherry ice cream mixture is nice and smooth. Melt the chocolate with the coconut oil in a bowl over simmering water.
Let it cool slightly and put it in a small food storage bag. If it hardens, place the bag in warm water.
Step 9: When the ice cream is soft frozen, cut a tiny piece off of the corner of the bag and drip chocolate slowly into the churning ice cream. The chocolate will harden in the churning ice cream, creating the chocolate chips.
Step 10: When the ice cream is done, transfer it to a freezer container. Cover and freeze for 24-hours.
🍒 FAQ For Cherry Ice Cream with Chocolate Chips
Do you remember the Thrifty Drug Stores that were popular in the 90s? I use to go with my Grandpa and get ice cream cones.
It's a glorious memory that I'll cherish forever! This homemade cherry chocolate chip ice cream tastes just like the Thrifty thrifty cherry chip ice cream.
My dad says this ice cream tastes just like Ben and Jerry's cherry garcia ice cream. You decide and let me know. 🙂
Creamy and delicious!
Looking for more cherry recipes? Check out this delicious Sweet Cherry Hand Pies recipe.
Using condensed milk for chocolate ice cream with cherries makes it so we don't have to use egg yolks in this recipe, which makes the ice cream making process much easier.
This chocolate cherry ice cream recipe will keep a long time in the freezer. Simply seal the ice cream container or top it with two layers of tinfoil and you won't have to worry about freezer burn!
This ice cream cherry tastes just like black cherry chocolate ice cream.
Is cherry ice cream made of actual cherries or is it made of chemicals that taste like cherry?
This Easy CherryChocolate Chunk Ice Cream is made with real cherries. No chemicals here!
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📖 Recipe
Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
Equipment
Ingredients
Homemade Cherry Syrup
- 2-cups fresh sweet cherries, pitted, halved or quartered
- 3 tablespoon sugar
- 1 tablespoon water
Custard Ice Cream Mixture
- 1 can condensed milk
- 2 cups cold heavy cream
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- ¾ cup sugar
Chocolate Mixture
- 1 bag semisweet chocolate chips
- 2 tablespoon coconut oil
Instructions
- Wash and pit the cherries
- Now we are going to prepare the cherries for the ice cream. Put the prepared cherries into a small saucepan with 3 tablespoons of sugar and 1 tablespoon of water.
- Bring cherries to a boil over medium heat and cook, stirring constantly, and using a potato masher to mash the cherries for about 4 to 6 minutes, or until the cherries are soft and syrupy.
- Simmer the cherries on low heat until the sauce starts to thicken. Once the cherry sauce is thick, remove from heat, Put it in a container, cover it, and refrigerate.
- Next, let's prep our cherry ice cream mixture. Gather the heavy cream, vanilla extract, and sugar.
- In a large mixing bowl, combine the heavy cream, condensed milk, vanilla extract, and sugar. Mix until well combined. This is the ice cream mixture.
- Let's make our cherry ice cream! Add the prepared ice cream custard to an ice cream machine. Let the machine mix the ice cream for at least 20 minutes. The longer the better peaks your cherry ice cream will have. After 20 minutes of churning, add the cooled cherry syrup to the ice cream machine.
- While our chocolate cherry ice cream is churning in the ice cream machine, we are going to melt the chocolate chips. Adding melted chocolate at the end of the ice cream process, will make chocolate chips and ensure the cherry ice cream mixture is nice and smooth. Melt the chocolate with the coconut oil in a bowl over simmering water. Let it cool slightly and put it in a small food storage bag. If it hardens, place the bag in warm water.
- When the ice cream is soft frozen, cut a tiny piece off of the corner of the bag and drip chocolate slowly into the churning ice cream. The chocolate will harden in the churning ice cream, creating the chocolate chips.
- When the ice cream is done, transfer it to a freezer container. Cover and freeze for 24-hours.
W.E.
Condensed milk?
Do you mean sweet and condensed milk as opposed to evaporated milk?
Genevieve
Sweetened Condensed milk, yes that's correct. 🙂
Nora
This Cherry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is an absolute summer dream! Creamy, rich, and bursting with fresh cherry flavor, with just the right amount of chocolatey crunch. So easy to make and an instant hit—perfect for warm days and sweet cravings!