My Ninja CREAMi Recipes
Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

A smooth, creamy ice cream with a clean fresh-mint flavor and fine pieces of dark chocolate throughout. It is cool and herbal, with balanced sweetness and a rich dairy finish.

Prep
35 min
Program
ICE CREAM
Level
Easy
Price
€€

Prepare the base

  1. Gently rinse the mint leaves and pat them completely dry.

  2. Add the whole milk and mint leaves to a small saucepan. Warm over low heat until steaming but not boiling, then remove from the heat, cover and infuse for 20 minutes.

  3. Blend the mint and milk for 20 seconds, then strain through a fine-mesh sieve, pressing the leaves firmly to recover as much liquid as possible. Let the infused milk cool completely.

  4. Add the cooled mint-infused milk, heavy cream, sugar, vanilla extract and salt to a bowl. Whisk until the sugar is fully dissolved and the base is smooth.

Freeze and spin

  1. Pour the mixture into a Ninja CREAMi pint, without exceeding the MAX FILL line.

  2. Close with the storage lid and freeze flat for 24 hours.

  3. Once fully frozen, run the ICE CREAM program.

  4. If the texture is powdery or crumbly after the first cycle, run RE-SPIN.

    Still not right after re-spinning? See how to fix the texture .

Prepare the mix-ins

  1. Finely chop the dark chocolate into small, irregular pieces.

  2. Make a small hole in the center of the frozen base, add the chopped chocolate, then use the MIX-IN program.

Serve

Serve immediately, while the ice cream is still nice and creamy.

Storing leftovers

Flatten any remaining ice cream to level the surface before returning the pint to the freezer. This will make the next spin easier and reduce unnecessary strain on the machine. Learn more about after-serving habits.

Enjoyed this recipe?

Choose a rating from 1 to 5 stars

Tips

  • Fresh mint gives the ice cream a naturally pale green-beige color rather than the vivid green of commercially colored versions.
  • Finely chopped chocolate stays easier to bite straight from the freezer than large chips.

Nutrition

100 g Pint
Calories 234 1263
Protein (g) 3 16.2
Carbs (g) 19.9 107.4
Fat (g) 15.8 85.3