Super creamy homemade chocolate ice cream flavored with hot chocolate mix and marshmallows. It’s a great way to use the extra hot cocoa mix in the pantry and transition it from a winter to a spring treat.
Did you ever think of turning hot chocolate mix into ice cream? Well now you can! It’s a great way to use up what’s left of the hot chocolate mix in the pantry and take it from a cold weather beverage to a hot weather frozen treat.
MiMi originally shared this recipe in 2015. We were on a hot chocolate bender that winter.
We made homemade hot chocolate mix and homemade white hot chocolate mix for everyone. Then she turned the extras into this ice cream, hot chocolate dip, and some white hot chocolate cookies.
It was a fun way to spend some quality time together making it all and everyone enjoyed the resulting treats.
I thought it would be a good time to go back and freshen up the post. So I remade the ice cream, took new pictures and added a printable recipe card for your convenience.
I also altered the recipe just a smidge. MiMi’s original recipe called for all cream.
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It is delicious that way and super rich and creamy. I decided to sub in a little milk for some of the cream.
That saves on a few calories and makes it just a smidge less rich. Plus it freezes just a little faster and more solid.
You can easily revert back to the original recipe by turning the 1/2 cup of milk back into cream. Or try it both ways and let me know which you prefer.
Ice cream maker recommendations
MiMi has a couple kitchenaid ice cream maker attachments for her stand mixer. She loves them and makes all of her ice cream with them.
I recently got a cuisinart ice cream maker. You freeze the bowl ahead of using it much like the kitchenaid attachment.
I have only had it for a couple of months and have made several batches of ice cream already. So far so good and it doesn’t take up a ton of room for storage, no more than a food processor.
Hot Chocolate Mix Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2½ cups heavy cream
- ½ cup whole milk
- 14 ounce sweetened condensed milk
- ¼ cup granulated sugar
- ½ cup hot chocolate mix
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 cup mini marshmallows
Instructions
- Using a whisk or an immersion blender, mix together everything but the marshmallows. You want it to be well blended, but try not too whip to much air into the mixture.2½ cups heavy cream, ½ cup whole milk, 14 ounce sweetened condensed milk, ¼ cup granulated sugar, ½ cup hot chocolate mix, 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Place the ice cream base into the bowl of your ice cream maker and churn as recommended by your machine.
- When the mixture is done churning, remove from the bowl of your ice cream freezer and fold in the miniature marshmallows.1 cup mini marshmallows
- Store in a freezer safe container. Remove from the freezer about five minutes before you're ready to serve to let it soften just a little bit. Scoop and enjoy.
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My husband got an ice cream maker for Christmas and he is loving trying to new recipes. I just showed him your recipe, and he will be making this as soon as it's not to cold to enjoy ice cream!
I hope you guys love it! MiMi is our official ice cream maker and she loves experimenting. She made a fun one for this weekend, I hope I can get good pictures tonight!
This hot chocolate mix one is in our all-time top 5, so I think you'll love it!
Why haven't we made this yet!?
You had better get on it! 😉
yumm sounds so good!
It is amazing!
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Carlee, how do you keep doing this! Recipe after recipe and each one better than the next! This sounds so simple and delish I might have to break out my ice-cream maker in January!! Happy New Year and Happy Fiesta Friday!! I'm pinning this to the FF Board just in case no one has yet!
This definitely ranks up there in my top 5 homemade ice cream recipes and that is really saying something! I love homemade ice cream! Happy New Year and happy Fiesta Friday to you as well!
Happy New Year Carlee! We are happy to inform you that your hot chocolate ice cream will be featured at our Monday Cooking and Crafting with J&J! Thanks for sharing all of your awesome recipes with us each week! Enjoy the weekend.
Julie xo
Thank you so much, Julie! What a great start to 2016!
This is such a neat idea! YUM!
Thanks for joining Cooking and Crafting with J & J! Happy 2016!
Thank you, MiMi makes the BEST homemade ice creams!
I love ice cream, doesn't everyone? A new twist with hot chocolate! Thanks for sharing with Fiesta Friday #100. If you're new to Fiesta Friday, please read the guidelines http://fiestafriday.net/fiesta-friday-guidelines/ Don't forget to link your post to FiestaFriday.net as well as the co-hosts blogs. Happy Holidays and the Best in 2016 :
I know I love it too!
I don't care how cold it is outside I can always eat ice cream. This reminds me of the famous frozen hot chocolate at Serendipity in NYC. Wonderful!! Thanks so much for bringing this treat to the party.
Me too, ice cream is good year round!
That's such a great idea for dessert! Ice cream is definitely my downfall. I don't make ice cream enough. Thanks for sharing the recipe!
I don't make ice cream mostly because I can't be trusted with a whole batch to myself. Plus MiMi does such a great job. If she ever stops, I'll have to start doing it myself. In the meantime I let her be in charge of making fun ice cream flavors. This one was particularly good!
This sounds utterly delicious – I'd do anything for ice cream, but, unlike your husband, I eat any sweets and desserts, too … Thank you for bringing this along to our very festive Fiesta Friday gathering!
Ginger x
Me too, sweets are my downfall. It would be a lot easier if he would help me eat them! Thanks for stopping by!
Hello Carlee, your hot chocolate ice cream sounds just amazing.
Thanks for sharing the recipe at Cooking and Crafting with J & J.
Have a Happy New Year. Julie xo
It was sooo good! Have a Happy New Year!