Description
Creamy coffee chocolate chip yogurt ice cream offers a luxurious dessert blending bold espresso notes with sweet chocolate fragments. Cold and rich, this treat promises pure indulgence for chocolate and coffee enthusiasts seeking a sophisticated frozen delicacy.
Ingredients
Scale
- 3 cups (710 ml) non-fat Greek yogurt (fage preferred)
- 2 oz (57 g) chopped dark chocolate
- ½ cup (120 ml) sweetener of your choice
- 1 tbsp instant coffee
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Preparation: Freeze the ice cream maker’s bowl completely solid at least 24 hours before crafting the dessert to guarantee optimal churning performance.
- Base Creation: Whisk yogurt with sweeteners until smooth, ensuring a consistent liquid foundation with balanced flavor complexity.
- Coffee Integration: Dissolve instant coffee granules thoroughly into the yogurt mixture, creating a rich and uniform aromatic profile.
- Flavor Calibration: Adjust sweetness slightly beyond typical preference, understanding that freezing will naturally mute the initial intensity.
- Machine Setup: Remove the pre-chilled bowl from freezer and assemble ice cream maker components with precision.
- Churning Process: Activate the machine and stream the coffee-yogurt mixture into the rotating chamber, allowing gradual transformation from liquid to creamy texture over 15-20 minutes.
- Chocolate Infusion: Once the yogurt reaches a semi-frozen state, delicately fold chocolate fragments throughout the mixture, ensuring even distribution and maintaining the dessert’s smooth consistency.
- Freezing Finalization: Transfer the churned ice cream into an airtight container, smoothing the surface to minimize potential ice crystal development, then place in freezer to solidify and intensify flavors.
Notes
- Freeze Bowl Properly: Ensure the ice cream maker’s freezer bowl is completely solid and frozen for at least 24 hours before churning to guarantee smooth, creamy texture.
- Sweeten Strategically: Make the mixture slightly sweeter than usual because freezing naturally reduces the perceived sweetness of the dessert.
- Churn Carefully: Watch the churning process closely for 15-20 minutes, looking for a consistent creamy transformation that indicates perfect ice cream consistency.
- Fold Chocolate Gently: Add chocolate chips delicately near the end of churning to prevent them from sinking and to ensure even distribution throughout the yogurt ice cream.
- Prep Time: 10 minutes
- Category: Desserts, Snacks, Drinks
- Method: Blending
- Cuisine: American
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 5
- Calories: 130
- Sugar: 6 g
- Sodium: 60 mg
- Fat: 5 g
- Saturated Fat: 3 g
- Unsaturated Fat: 2 g
- Trans Fat: 0 g
- Carbohydrates: 18 g
- Fiber: 1 g
- Protein: 8 g
- Cholesterol: 10 mg