Mohito Ice Cream Recipe

Yes! There are 'adult' ice cream flavors! Our favourite recipes come from Pinterest, Food & Wine Magazine, and the Willams Sonoma ICE CREAM book.

This started out as a natural 'Mint Chocolate Chip' ice cream recipe one summer a few years back. A great recipe I am sure from the Williams-Sonoma ICE CREAM book we own, it just didn't taste as expected at the end so with a few tweaks we made Mohito!

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Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cups (12 fl oz / 375mL) whole milk
• 1 1/2 cups (12 fl oz / 375mL) heavy cream
• 1 cup (1 oz / 30g) fresh mint leaves
• 4 large egg yolks
• 1/2 cup (4 oz / 125g ) sugar - plus 2 Tbsp
• 1 Tbsp finely grated lime zest
• pinch of salt
• optional ​1-2 Tbsp Rum

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Directions:

1. In a 2 L sauce pan combine the milk, 1 cup of cream, and the mint leaves. Cook over medium heat until bubbles form on edges (about 5 minutes). Remove from heat and let sit for 20 minutes.
2.  Combine the egg yolks, sugar, salt and remaining 1/2 cup of cream in a bowl. Whisk until smooth. Gradually whisk 1/2 cup of the warm milk and mint mixture into the egg mixture until smooth. Pour the egg mixture into the sauce pan. Cook over medium heat stirring constantly until it is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon (when you swipe your finger through the spoon it will leave a clear trail without back filling in on itself). DO NOT LET IT BOIL!
3. Strain the mix through a mesh sieve or strainer pressing on the mint to extract liquid. Place the bowl in another bowl filled with ice and stir until cool. Refrigerate until chilled (minimum 3 hrs, maximum 24 hrs). 
4. Pour the mixture into your ice cream machine. When it is nearly frozen, mix in the Rum and lime zest. Freeze up to 3 hours before serving. If you don't have a machine make sure to check the 'how to make homemade ice cream without a machine' post. 

You can still turn this into mint chocolate chip if you want to substitute the Rum for 3 oz (90 g) of chocolate instead. We just found it reminded us more of mohito with the fresh mint leaves. You can always add more Rum and serve this one up as a killer adult milkshake!