Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream: No Churn, 3 ingredients
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Love chocolate ice cream? Ditch the ice cream maker and be ready to have your mind blown on this easy chocolate ice cream recipe.
Easy Chocolate Ice Cream recipe
All you need are 3 ingredients and some patience because it does take about 4-5 hours to chill the ice cream. But hey, it’s an super quick and easy recipe for chocolate ice cream that everyone will enjoy. There’s lots of easy 3-ingredient ice cream recipes out there on the internet, but our version is less sweet but still loaded with flavor.
Video: No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe:
How to Make No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream
The technique is simple: add all the ingredients into a large bowl and using a stand mixer or electric hand mixer on high power, you’ll be able to whip up the ice cream in less than 10 minutes. Then, of course, it takes some chill time and what you have is a creamy, rich and delicious treat. What are the 3 ingredients for this recipe? Heavy whipping cream, some sweetened condensed milk and chocolate syrup. As an option, add a pinch of sea salt if you like! The sea salt adds a nice contrast to the sweet chocolate flavor of the ice cream.
Less Sweet Ice Cream
This recipe is made to be a little less sweet than most out there, as it only uses 1/4 the amount of sweetened condensed milk. You’ll get plenty of sugar-rush from the chocolate syrup, but if you’ve got a sweet tooth, then add a little more sweetened condensed milk if you like. Everyone who has tasted this version of our easy chocolate ice cream realize that it’s so good without all the sugar from the sweetened condensed milk.
If you want to make it over-the-top good, add a drizzle of chocolate syrup. We did in the video! Enjoy. Craving more chocolate recipes? Here’s one of the best chocolate cake to die for and a link of more of our popular ice cream recipes here.
Enjoy!
How to Make Ice Cream Awesome Tools:
Although for this recipe you don’t need an ice cream churner, most recipes will need one. Here’s a few of our favorites + an awesome waffle cone maker:
KitchenAid Stand Mixer Ice Cream Bowl – Freeze the bowl and churn away with your KA stand mixer (not included). Don’t have a KA stand mixer, no problem. Use this Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker instead.
Old Fashioned Ice Cream Maker – Some like it old school. If you do, you’ll love this ice cream maker. Add ice and salt, then churn to summer time perfection.
Waffle Cone Maker– What’s better than homemade ice cream? Homemade ice cream on homemade waffle cones. Summer will never be the same!
Recipe originally published in 2015. It was updated with new photos, video, and recipe format in 2018.
Creamy 3-Ingredient, No Churn Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe
Ingredients
- 2 cups (480 ml) cold heavy whipping cream (cold)
- 1/4 cup (60 ml) sweetened condensed milk (not to be confused with evaporated milk)
- 3/4 cup (180 ml) chocolate syrup
- (optional) pinch of sea salt
Instructions
- In large mixing bowl of stand-mixer or in a large bowl and using an electric hand mixer, add all the ingredients: heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, chocolate syrup and/or sea salt (optional).
- Whip the chocolate heavy cream mixture on high speed until stiff peaks form (to prevent massive splattering, start out at a slower speed and as the cream thickens, increase the speed). Be careful not to over mix or "break" the whip cream mixture.
- Pour the whipped mixture into a freezer safe container. We like to use a bread pan. Cover and freeze for about 4-5 hours. In about 3-4 hours you can have a "soft serve" type ice cream. If you prefer a more firm texture, freeze for at least 5-6 hours or overnight.
- Now eat and enjoy this creamy, luscious, delicious dessert! And add extra chocolate syrup on top if you like!
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47 Comments on “Creamy Chocolate Ice Cream: No Churn, 3 ingredients”
You say 314 kcal but I did jot see the size of serving. I could at it all I need one setting, so delicious, but something tells me it might be haif-cup servings. Right?
Correct. The serving size is about 1/2 cup. Glad you loved it!
First time trying this. Added in one-half to three quarters cup MELTED peanut butter after whipping and swirled into mix. In freezer now. Can’t wait to taste it tonight!!!
I’ve made this no-churn chocolate ice cream and it’s very good. I have also made it and added 8oz of cream cheese to make it even creamier along with mini- chocolate chips and mini marshmallows. Yum!
can you use peaches and how would you do plain vanilla?
Make sure that your peaches are fresh, not canned. Also, make sure to dry them completely before folding into your ice cream mixture. Any additional liquid will cause your ice cream mixture not to set completely, causing soupy ice cream.
As for vanilla flavored icecream, use 2 tsp. of vanilla flavoring instead of the chocolate syrup
Come on, people, you’re not even trying!
First, background. The “secret” is in the heavy whipping cream. While once working in a 5-star restaurant, I learned to make fresh whipped cream (because that’s what we served with our cappuccinos). Fresh whipped cream is really easy to make and about 100x better than any store brand. And it’s simple: just take 1 pint of heavy whipping cream, 1 tsp of vanilla and 1/4-1/2 cup of confectioner’s sugar. Beat on high speed for 3-5 minutes and — yum! Where are the strawberries?!
But… just off the top of my head here are some great combos and ideas for this recipe:
1. Choco-Chip Mint Ice Cream Pie
Crush either plain or mint-flavored Oreo cookies in a food processor then using either fingers or cup line a 9″ pie shell. Bake 10 minutes in 350 degree oven. You don’t need to add butter because of the filling inside the cookies. Cool completely. Next, make ice cream (above) but hold chocolate syrup and add a 1/2 to 1 tsp of mint extract, plus 5-15 (depending on preference) green food color and blend with 2 C. heavy whipping cream and 1/4 C. of Sweetened Condensed Milk. Fold into cooled pie shell, then drizzle with chocolate syrup and cut gently with a knife. Freeze.
2. Ice Cream Cake (any flavor)
Prepare ice cream and place 1/2 of ice cream in 9″ spring-form pan. Add crushed Oreos, a thin layer of chocolate syrup, and add remaining ice cream. Freeze hard. Use whipped cream frosting (2 C heaving whippinng cream, 1 C conf. sugar, 1 tsp vanilla, combined) and freeze again. Voila!
Other containers:
— Any plastic container (ironically enough, an old Cool Whip container works)
— Desert Cups (for a special occasion)
Other Flavors:
Pina-Colada — 1/4 pineapple juice and 1 tsp. Coconut extract flavoring
Apple Crisp — add apple pie filling, 1 tsp cinnamon
Cherry Cobbler — cherry pie filling, 1 tsp Almond Extract
Lemon Pie (does not have to be a pie, but it can be), 1/4 C. ReaLemon flavoring, yellow food coloring
I could go on and on. Peach, orange (using preserves) for flavoring; strawberry or blueberry by adding fresh or frozen berries. Be sure to strain the frozen, as no more than 1/4 cup of liquid should be added.
Have a dream ice cream? Now’s your chance to make it. Go wild.
Trader Joe’s brand of chocolate syrup is old school, without high-fructose corn syrup. It has that real flavor from my childhood.
I’ve made ice cream and other yummy desserts using coconut oil, coconut milk, Agave, etc. We’re vegan and need non dairy recipes….your recipe is EASY to incorporate into our vegan lives. Thank you so much for your recipes!
I think that you could go dairy free by using coconut cream and homemade sweetened condensed coconut milk.
the coconut cream has fat content like the heavy cream and I know for a fact that it will whip up and sweetened condensed milk is made by boiling it down with some sugar so boiling coconut milk down with Agave (or honey or even white sugar) should give you sweetened condensed coconut milk. I am 99.9% sure this would work!
Thanks, I’m going to try these
The chocolate ice cream was delicious. Now, I want to make vanilla ice cream but am not sure of how much vanilla to use or if I should change any other ingredient measurements needed.
I want to make just vanilla ice crean as the chocolate was delicious. However, I am not sure how much vanilla to use to when to add. Should I adjust any of the other two ingrediance? Thanks for any help
2 teaspoons usually works fine
I have used fat free condensed milk, lite half and half and vanilla and sea salt. You just need to beat a little longer. I was thinking that nutella, fruits, nuts coconut, mini marshmallows, whatever could be added.
If the Popsicle mold works, you could add that hardening chocolate she’ll for a Klondike type bar on a stick! Mmm
Could you lighten it up by using other ingredients? Light Cream? Something other than Sweetened Condensed milk?
Any suggestions.
Thanks Lacey
Hi Lacey- we’ve not tried it with light cream because we’re not sure how it would whip to stiff peaks. But if you or any reader has tried it, please let know the results! And if anyone has tried it without the sweetened condensed milk, we’ve love to know how that turned out. Thank you.
Mm Yumm, Everyone makes it sound so good. And all those folks who tell of their ways too give us a choice every other word to make up our own great kinds. I think I could do this, and it would not be too hard to do. Thanks a lot. Good share!
Ps…
I am SUPER EXCITED.
I at first put this in my loaf pan then had a ding ding go off.
I still have my 1980’s Tupperware lunch box/ homemade icecream holder in bright yellow. Had it in brown at one time to. I will be keeping the look out for another one of these at 2nd hand shops for sure.
I just did my 2nd batch. I could not figure out how #1 did fluff up but after looking at different recipes and trying different methods I figured out my counter top Sunbeam mixer did not go faster enough even on high so my old electric mixer whipped it out thank goodness. #1 did turn out in general and tasted yummy but not as fluffy and only filled up container half way. #2 we substituted 2 teaspoons of vanilla for Chocolate syrup and a half of cup of chocolate chips and smashed Reece cups. This recipe seems to be very versatile. I did freeze my bowl and pre- whipped the whipping creamy on high then added the 2nd mixture. THANKS SO MUCH FOR INTRODUCING ME To THIS RECIPE! I like being able to pronounce all the ingredients my kids eat in a dessert. Chocolate peanut-butter planned for our 3rd batch. mmm mmm mmm
Thanks for the helpful comment! It will be tremendously useful to others who have mixer issues.
Hello, I tried this and peaks never formed. Advice? I used a kitchen aid stand mixer with whip attachment.
There are only a couple rare possibilities we can think of. It possibly wasn’t heavy cream, but was half and half. Everything was warm or room temperature. Cream whips up much better when it is cold. And maybe if the bowl wasn’t dry.
Maybe someone else might chime in with their advice too. Hope that helps.
Could you use caramel or butterscotch syrup instead of the chocolate?
Hi Jan,
Those would both work great.
Awesome! I think I’ll try this this weekend…one question however….could you use OTHER flavored syrups for different options? say a Caramel or Butterscotch? Thank You.
Hi Maryanne,
Other syrups would work great. We love a caramel version we’ve done.
Can you use other syrups for other flavors?
Hi Heather,
Other syrups will work great to change up the flavor.
I know this is got to be easy, because I have been making homemade Ice cream for 50 yrs. sugar,milk,vannala flavoring; put in Ice trays and freeze
Can you tell me approximately how long you allow to whip in a KitchenAid stand mixer?
Hi Christine,
It just depends on what speed you use and on your cream (how cold and what the fat content is), but it usually is about 3 minutes on medium speed.
Could I flavor the mix with same amount of fruit jam?
Hi Anna,
We haven’t tried it with jam yet, but it should work perfect. We’ve done similar versions with fresh berries that worked great.
I’m going to make this using strawberry syrup instead of chocolate. I’m also going to add hazelnut flavoring to the chocolate syrup & have a Nutella type ice cream!
Could you add alcohol to this?
Hi Brian,
We haven’t tried yet, but that sounds awesome. I probably wouldn’t add too much or else it might effect the freezing. Maybe an 1/8th of a cup to start.
I wonder if you could use this recipe for the ice cream maker to speed up the process? I have an amazing vanilla ice cream recipe and have been searching for a good chocolate one…
^^^^^Willing to share the vanilla one?? i have 2 kids who only like chocolate ice cream and 2 that only like vanilla but they all want to make their own! I would sure appreciate it!!
Thanx!!
I bet you could put them in paper cups, add a Popsicle stick, and peel off the cup when frozen! Yumm
Can you use a dark chocolate substitute for chocolate syrup? What would you use to create a dark chocolate version?
Hi Joyce,
There are dark chocolate syrups which would work great. We’ve seen and used Hersey’s dark chocolate syrup and are sure there are several other brands that would be just as good, if not better.
I use 2-3 tbsp Cocoa powder to get a deeper chocolate flavor. 🙂
Hi! I wondered if you could put this in popsicle molds and have “fudgesicles” ?
Katy- Not sure how they would release from the molds, but it’s a great idea. If you try it, please let us know how it turns out!
You can line the mold with wax paper – when you take the frozen ice cream from the mold you just have to remove the wax paper 🙂