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Chocolate Kit Kat ice cream in a blue bowl, garnished with Kit Kat bar pieces.

Homemade Kit Kat Ice Cream

Bree Hester
5 from 3 votes
Prep Time 20 minutes
Cook Time 20 minutes
Freezing Time: 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 40 minutes
Course ice cream
Cuisine American
Servings 8
Calories 293 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 1 cup whole milk
  • 3/4 cup sugar
  • 2 tablespoons cocoa powder
  • 1/4 cup malted milk powder
  • Pinch of salt
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 3 ounces milk chocolate chopped
  • 1 cup heavy cream
  • 1 tablespoon vanilla
  • 3 full size Kit Kat bars

Instructions
 

  • In a saucepan, combine milk, sugar, cocoa, malted milk powder, and salt. Stir and heat to a simmer until the sugar and cocoa is dissolved, do not let this mixture boil.
    Combining milk, sugar, cocoa powder, and malted milk powder in a saucepan for Homemade Kit Kat Ice Cream.
  • In a medium mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks.
    Beaten eggs in glass mixing bowl with whisk on kitchen counter.
  • Drizzle half of the cocoa mixture into the eggs to temper them, you do not want scrambled egg ice cream now do you? Add the egg mixture back into the saucepan and heat until thickened.
    Tempering egg yolks with cocoa mixture for Homemade Kit Kat Ice Cream.
  • Take the egg mixture off of the heat. Pour it through a strainer into a heat proof bowl. Add the chopped chocolate, heavy cream, and vanilla.
    Adding chopped milk chocolate, heavy cream, and vanilla for Homemade Kit Kat Ice Cream.
  • Mix well, cover with plastic wrap, and chill completely cold, or overnight.
    Mixing the chocolate ice cream base for Homemade Kit Kat Ice Cream in a glass bowl with a spatula.
  • Freeze according to your ice cream makers instructions.
    Churning the chocolate base for homemade Kit Kat ice cream.
  • Chop the Kit Kat into small pieces.
    Chopping Kit Kat bars into small pieces for homemade Kit Kat ice cream.
  • Pour the ice cream into a container and mix in Kit Kats.
    Mixing chopped Kit Kat bars into homemade Kit Kat ice cream in a glass container.
  • Freeze until the ice cream hardens. Garnish with Kit Kats.

Nutrition

Calories: 293kcalCarbohydrates: 32gProtein: 4gFat: 18gSaturated Fat: 11gSodium: 41mgFiber: 1g
Keyword ice cream
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