Chocolate coconut milk ice cream – pardon my drool

As I sit down to my laptop, I am unconvinced as to whether I will even be able to write this post. As soon as I start describing the homemade ice cream we made tonight, I’m sure I’ll be running to the freezer — multiple times — to snitch from the double-batch I made. Yeah, this post will never get done unless I exercise extreme self control.

You really, really cannot imagine how good this chocolate coconut milk ice cream is. Sure, you’re probably out there crying me a river because Owen and I can’t eat a lot of dairy without getting sick, sick, sick. I surely don’t feel bad for us — we’re in frozen dessert heaven.

Besides the coconut milk base, a couple of other things attracted me to this recipe. It is sweetened only with agave syrup, so no unrefined sugar. It’s chocolate, and not only have I been craving chocolate ice cream, but I’ve been so unsatisfied with all of our attempts at vanilla ice cream (because chocolate and the kid don’t mix) that I was left with no alternative. Finally, this recipe is sinfully easy to make. Some ice cream recipes you have to — gasp! — cook, but this one is four ingredients and a stick blender (or a whisk if you don’t do high-tech).

One minor disappointment, as I have with all of my homemade ice creams: they are best when right out of the machine. As mentioned in the original post, it comes out like the most perfect soft-serve ice cream you can possibly imagine. Several hours later, it’s still good, but starting to get hard. The next morning — yeah, I went there — it’s rock-hard and needs to sit out a bit just to be scooped. I’ve been looking into this phenomenon and there are lots of ideas on how to cure it, and I’ll be testing some of them soon. Of course I’ll report back to you. Regardless, this ice cream recipe is completely divine.

So I ask — Kimi Harris, who the hell are you and what have you done to me? And I mean this in only all the best ways, because inventing this recipe was a stroke of genius that I wish I had … struck? Anyway, I’m glad to have found you and this recipe, and since my kid fell asleep tonight, I’m thinking the green light for chocolate is ON.