How do you make chocolate ice cream without seizing?
Question by hamsterbabies: How do you make chocolate ice cream without seizing?
I’ve tried making chocolate sorbet and chocolate ice cream. Whenever I add the cream or milk to the chocolate, it seizes. So I stir and stir and stir for a very long time and it looks smooth with small chunks. But then I make the ice cream and it isn’t smooth at all. Please help. I’m trying to make it for a birthday party.
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Answer by KC
It sounds like the problem may be in adding cold to hot or vice versa. They should be closer to the same tempertaure to blend better.
Although, I have found that homemade ice cream tends to freeze very hard and crystallize. For ice creams I use powdered pudding as a base for a nice smooth texture, and with sorbets I add pectin.
Good luck, making ice cream is pretty tricky.
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I’m guessing that you are using a machine. You have to heat the cream, sugar, etc. with the chocolate until the chocolate melts before adding it to the machine. make sure that the ice (if you’re using one of those home machines that require ice) has plenty of salt mixed in with it (it lowers the melting point of ice) and let the machine run until it stops. the Ice cream should be soft, and at this point you can mix in whatever chunky stuff you want. then you put it in the freezer to finish freezing. If you’re trying to make it by hand, you’ll have to use a BIG bowl of salted ice with your ice cream in a smaller bowl inside, and stir, stir, stir til the ice cream gets to that creamy texture (starts to set), then add your chunky stuff and freeze it. I hope this helps, because I’m not sure what you mean by “seizing”.
use a good quality chocolate, and use more liquid than chocolate ratio. chocolate that has seized can still be melted with the additional of more liquid into the mix.
this has been discussed by the chef very long time ago. but it still has not happened to me.
why not use powdered cocoa or your favorite chocolate drink in your sorbet? it is more flavorful and nobody will know the difference. hehe