S'more(s) Ice Cream

You scream... I scream... We ALL scream... for ice cream. Gimme s'mores! (I said that last bit in my my ODB voice). I pulled out my beloved but rarely used ice cream maker recently and did a bit of a mish mash. I had some leftover cooking/baking ingredients that were taking up too much space in the kitschen. So I decided to use them up in an ice cream mash-up.

Because I made those s'more pops for my nephew's birthday I had 3/4 of a bag of marshmallows I was trying to use up and a box of graham cracker crumbs. This easily meant s'more flavored ice cream HAD to be made. Initial research showed that googling "s'more ice cream" lead to a lot of recipes with marshmallow base flavored ice creams. I like marshmallows but not that much. I prefer all ice creams to have a chocolate base! As a result I poked around a bit more and decided to do a chocolate ice cream and then add in the rest of the s'more flavors as mix-ins. The chocolate ice cream recipe I settled on came from this book. The recipe basically calls for making two mixtures and then adding them together.

The chocolate ice cream ingredients... One mixture used the coca powder the other the chocolate.

I tweeked the recipe a little bit because I have a phobia of tempering eggs. So instead I used cornstarch as a thickener. I nixed the eggs and added 3 TBS of cornstarch with a bit of the milk to make a slurry.

After mixing the two together I put the whole schebang in the fridge to chill. Note the use of cling wrap to keep a skin from forming on the top.

While the chocolate base was cooling I started to melt my marshmallows in order to make my own fluff.

Some s'more ice cream recipes just had you chuck in the mini marshmallows but I didn't have mini marshmallows. So I did another google search and found out you could make fluff by melting down marshmallows and adding in a bit of butter (mmm butter) and corn syrup. I know you're thinking "isn't that bad for you?" And to that I reply: It's ice cream! Who cares?!

I also added some butter to those graham cracker crumbs as if I were making a crust. I didn't think the fine grind on the crumbs would give the texture I wanted.

Here's a picture of the churned ice cream... I could have just stopped there.

Seriously folks... the chocolate ice cream was amazing. Such a great chocolate flavor. I will make a plain batch of chocolate ice cream any day with that recipe. So good. I liked the spatula clean and would have liked the urn too but I was afraid my tongue would stick. You can't tell from the picture but during the last 5 min. of churning I crumbled up the graham cracker crust and dropped it in there to mix throughout. While the ice cream finished I loaded up a disposable icing bag (using this method) with my homemade fluff. The final step was to transfer the churned ice cream into a freezer safe container and layering the fluff throughout. I couldn't take pictured during this process because my hands were covered in chocolate and/or fluff.