Chocolate and candy ice cream flavors
Mix-in flavors loaded with chips, fudge, marshmallows and candy pieces, from mint chocolate chip to s'mores.
This section holds the flavors where the fun is in the pieces: chips, fudge ribbons, marshmallows, nuts and chopped candy. Mint chocolate chip, rocky road and peanut butter cup are a few of them.
It is for anyone hunting for a sweet, crunchy, mix-in scoop, and for home makers who want to know how chocolate and mix-ins go in.
6 chocolate and candy flavors
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Mint chocolate chip
Cool peppermint ice cream with chocolate chips or shards
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Rocky road
Chocolate ice cream with marshmallows and almonds or walnuts
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Peanut butter cup
Salty-sweet peanut butter or chocolate ice cream with chopped candy cups
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Peanut butter fudge swirl
Vanilla with a fudge ribbon and small peanut butter cups
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Toffee crunch
Vanilla or caramel ice cream with buttery, brittle toffee pieces
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S'mores
Chocolate or vanilla with marshmallow swirl, graham crackers and chocolate
What the moon badges mean
- Rare Rare enough that you would most likely make it at home.
- Hard to find Look for it in specialty shops and seasonal runs.
- Sometimes found Found in some shops and some grocery freezers.
- Easy to find Common in most grocery freezers.
- Classic A classic you can buy almost anywhere.
Chocolate bases and mix-ins
Most of these pair a chocolate or vanilla base with pieces. The Guelph e-Book lists workable chocolate mixes at 3% cocoa powder, 2.5% cocoa powder plus 1.5% chocolate liquor, or 5% chocolate liquor, with the cocoa added before the mix is homogenized. In factory ice cream, it says, candy and nuts go in as the ice cream leaves the freezer, with about half its water frozen and roughly as soft as soft serve.
Make and serve them with these
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Base Builder and Batch Scaler
Ice cream base recipe sized to your machine
Pick a style and your machine, and get a base formula in grams and cups with fat, sugar and solids checked.
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Recipe Scaler and Converter
Ice cream recipe converter: cups to grams
Scale an ice cream recipe by a factor, a batch volume or your machine, and see every line in grams and cups.
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Scoop size chart
Ice cream scoop sizes and the disher number chart
The number stamped on an ice cream scoop tells you how many level scoopfuls fill one quart, so a #8 holds 4 fluid ounces (1/2 cup) and a #16 holds 2.
Other flavor sections
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6 flavors
Classic ice cream flavors
The flavors you can find in almost any freezer case, from plain vanilla to Neapolitan.
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10 flavors
Fruit ice cream flavors
Peach, cherry, berry, citrus and tropical flavors, from soft summer fruit to bright, tart lemon.
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6 flavors
Nut and caramel ice cream flavors
Toasted nuts, cooked caramel and maple, in buttery, salty-sweet flavors like butter pecan and pistachio.
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4 flavors
Coffee and tea ice cream flavors
Roasted coffee, mocha, green tea and spiced chai, for scoops that taste a little grown-up.
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8 flavors
Bakery and dessert ice cream flavors
Cookies, cake, brownies and pie folded into ice cream, from cookies and cream to key lime pie.
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4 flavors
Spice and floral ice cream flavors
Warm spices, cool mint and gentle florals, from cinnamon and pumpkin to honey lavender.
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15 flavors
Regional and international ice cream flavors
Flavors tied to a place or a tradition, from spumoni and dulce de leche to kulfi and dondurma.
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7 flavors
Modern and unusual ice cream flavors
Savory, herbal and surprising flavors, from sweet corn and black sesame to olive oil and basil.
Sources
- Ice Cream Technology e-Book: Chocolate and Cocoa H. Douglas Goff, University of Guelph
- Ice Cream Technology e-Book: Freezing/Whipping of Ice Cream H. Douglas Goff, University of Guelph
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