Chocolate coconut ice cream

Today was another experimental ice cream day. I admit, I experiment with ice cream more often than not these days. When I started, I did follow recipes, and I have made some very delicious things, like this cheesecake ice cream but my plan was always to find a basic ice cream vanilla mix and go from there. And I got lucky, because a few years ago I bought a Nestle Recipe book. One of those ones you get free with a magazine, or something. And it has a few ice cream recipes in there - including my basic cream + condensed milk combination. But it has other things, so when I have an ingredient I want to use, I check it out and see if it has any hints about quantity.

For today's ice cream, I had to look up two different things - how much chocolate to use, and how much coconut, and from there I developed the following recipe:

395g tin condensed milk
600ml thickened cream
200g milk chocolate (I just used Woolies Select)
1/3 cup shredded coconut.

Melt the chocolate over water, mix in the coconut, allow to cool (I probably should have left it longer than 5 minutes, but it still worked), and then mix in the condensed milk and cream. Chill (in my case, for an hour) and put into ice cream maker.


My ideas for ice cream come from strange places; I often just think "what flavours do I like together" and then mix them up and see. But today's came about because my mother bought the wrong sort of coconut for her anzac biscuits. She always uses desiccated, but she accidentally bought shredded. She tried them in the anzacs, and they were okay, but the texture was weird. So she told me to use the coconut. And, because it's me, my first idea was "I'll put it into ice cream!". And I really liked that idea, but thinking about it some more I wasn't sure I wanted an entire coconut ice cream, so I decided to break up the flavour and, being a total chocoholic, I decided to add chocolate.  Very simple, and allowing me to end up with an ice cream rather Bounty in flavour! Which is excellent, because I love Bounty bars.

And now, it just leaves me free for more coconut-inspired ice cream next week.