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Creamy chocolate ice cream with a chocolate bar garnish in a light blue bowl on a colorful checkered napkin.

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 Dessert
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.
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  • In a medium mixing bowl, whisk the egg yolks.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • Mix well, cover with plastic wrap, and chill completely cold, or overnight.
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  • Freeze according to your ice cream makers instructions.
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  • Chop the Kit Kat into small pieces.
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  • Pour the ice cream into a container and mix in Kit Kats.
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  • 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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