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    Home » Recipes » Chocolate Recipes

    Published: Feb 10, 2013 · Updated: May 10, 2021 by Paula Montenegro
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    Chocolate Velvet Ice Cream with Cherry Sauce

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    I've been wanting to make and share this chocolate ice cream with you all because it's one of my favorites! I love it with fresh cherry sauce, a combination I find irresistible. And it deserves the word velvet; though cheesy, it's self-explanatory.

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    Making ice cream at home
    Ice cream machines
    Making the cherry sauce
    Tips for the sauce
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    Chocolate Velvet Ice Cream with Cherry Sauce
    Ingredients
    Ice glass with chocolate ice cream and cherries

    Making ice cream at home

    It is a different experience than buying the commercial kind. Fresh ingredients and pairings we love I think account for it being superior. 

    I have an old ice cream maker, the one that needs the bowl to be already frozen and that doesn't do an excellent job. But it gets there. The ice cream is super creamy. So I don't complain.

    Two stem glasses with chocolate ice cream on white linen on wooden table

    This is a very old fashioned ice cream made with yolks and cream.

    The chocolate cream, once it's very cold and ready to be put in the ice cream maker, is simply luscious, so creamy and unctuous you'd want to eat it like that.

    Ice cream machines

    What these machines do is churn the ice cream base for a period of time to prevent crystallization when it's frozen and kept in the freezer. 

    I have a very old one and it works very well. It's from Cuisinart, and this is probably the modern model. It's the type that you have to freeze the bowl, so I just have it in the freezer at all times, year-round, so it's ready whenever I want to make ice cream. 

    Top view of chocolate ice cream in stem glass on wooden table

    Making the cherry sauce

    Start by pitting fresh cherries. Or maybe you're lucky to be able to buy frozen pitted cherries. 

    A cherry pitter is essential in my opinion. You can buy cherry pitters online, of course. 

    Make sure you wear an apron or something to cover your clothes because some pits will probably fly were they're not supposed too until you get the drift of the pitter. Similar to taking the seeds out of a pomegranate. Cover your clothes. 

    Hand with cherry pitter, whole cherry, white bowl with pits

    Tips for the sauce

    Any cherry qualifies for the sauce as long as they're edible, not rotten, of course. If you have fruit that is not very ripe or sweet they are great for making the sauce. 

    Sugar, I love using brown. But you can use whatever you like, white, powdered, coconut, muscovado. Simply know that each sweetens differently. 

    Saucepan with cherry sauce in the making

    So this is, at the moment, my favorite chocolate ice cream, with a fresh cherry sauce that is one of my most anticipated fruits. I can never tire of eating fresh cherries. Ever.

    I found out while attempting many chocolate cakes and brownie recipes, that one of the best ways to achieve a deep, semisweet chocolate flavor is to mix melted dark chocolate and unsweetened cocoa powder.

    Blue plastic container with chocolate ice cream and scoop on wooden table

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    • No-churn Strawberry Ice Cream Recipe
    • Cheesecake Ice Cream (no-churn)
    • Easy No-churn Chocolate Baileys Ice Cream
    • Ice Cream Granola Truffles

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    Ice glass with chocolate ice cream and cherries

    Chocolate Velvet Ice Cream with Cherry Sauce

    • Author: Paula Montenegro
    • Prep Time: 20
    • Cook Time: 60
    • Total Time: 1 hour 20 minutes
    • Yield: 6 servings 1x
    • Category: Desserts
    • Method: Cooking + freezing
    • Cuisine: International
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    Description

    I was wanting to make and share this chocolate ice cream with you guys because it's one of my favorites! I love it with fresh cherry sauce, a combination I find irresistible. And it deserves the word velvet; though cheesy, it's self-explanatory.


    Ingredients

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    • Ice cream made as written in a recipe at Gourmet magazine

    For the cherry sauce:

    • 1 pound (450g) fresh cherries, pitted
    • 2 tablespoons light brown sugar
    • 1 or 2 tablespoons cassis liqueur (optional)
    • 1 or 2 tablespoons water

    Instructions

    1. Put cherries in a saucepan, add the sugar and cook, stirring constantly, for 2 minutes.
    2. Add cassis and 1 or 2 Tbs water. If you're not using the liqueur, increase water by 2 tablespoons.
    3. Let cook for about 5 minutes, until cherries soften a bit and the sauce is syrupy.
    4. Keep refrigerated and use cold over ice cream.

    Keywords: chocolate velvet ice cream, cherry sauce

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    1. Colette Joseph says

      August 05, 2013 at 8:00 pm

      That cherry topping is just perfect for the ice cream.
      I can't wait to make some. Thanks!

      Reply
    2. german in pdx says

      February 16, 2013 at 5:59 pm

      Chocolate ice cream and cherries? Yes, please 🙂 looks fantastic ~ Bea

      Reply
    3. Tara says

      February 15, 2013 at 10:59 pm

      My mouth is totally watering. Chocolate and cherries are divine together and that looks so very good!! Hope you had a wonderful Valentine's Day.

      Reply
    4. Mica ♥ Imprimerie says

      February 14, 2013 at 2:01 am

      Loved the story, and I feel quite the same about this kind of holiday. I will HAVE to sell my stupid microwave and buy an ice cream maker 🙂

      Reply
    5. Soni says

      February 13, 2013 at 8:37 pm

      Love Chocolate Cherry combo!And I agree with you that unplanned spontaneous moments are always the best 🙂 Happy Valentine's Day!

      Reply
    6. Carol | a cup of mascarpone says

      February 13, 2013 at 12:41 pm

      If ice cream can be gorgeous, this is it! Paula, I love your photos...the cherry ones are stunning! Have a Happy Valentine's Day! Carol xox

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