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Home » Ice Cream and Ices » Chocolate and Orange Ricotta Ice Cream

Chocolate and Orange Ricotta Ice Cream

By Georgina Hartley  •  Published March 28, 2014  •  Updated August 6, 2020

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Chocolate and Orange Ricotta Ice Cream is a light and zesty orange ice cream, tangy with ricotta and studded with dark chocolate shards.

A close up of ice cream in a tankard this recipe

I find ice cream one of the most relaxing and joyful things to make. One of the key notes about Diane Keaton’s character in It’s Complicated- oh we quote the highbrow art here – is that if she can’t sleep she makes ice cream. Typically for a Diane Keaton role she is uptight and neurotic so her freezer is bursting with ice cream. However, that comforting and gentle experience of making ice cream is something I can completely relate to.

When I stopped working full time last year I went on a bit of an ice cream bender. I made all the flavours I had been setting aside for the many years I had worked in an intense and long-houred career. I was now free to produce tubs of salted butter ice cream, apple pie ice cream, cornflake ice cream, and malted milk ice cream. I bought gallons of double cream and whole milk, experimented, I infused and I churned like a milk maid gone wild. There were no losers in this scenario. It took my mind off the terrifying prospect that I had just voluntarily given up the career I had proudly worked all my adult life to achieve and it helped me reflect on exactly what I planned to do next. Plus my husband loves ice cream so he was as happy as a pig in Mississippi mud pie ice cream. Which was also delicious.

A close up of ice cream in a tankard in front of orange and chocolate

It’s surprising then that I haven’t talked much about ice cream in the few months I have been writing here. I suppose I took a bit of a hiatus, after all our freezer isn’t the giant American style megalith that Diane Keaton had and it could only take so much. The good news is that my ice cream supply is now dwindling and I have been slowly picking up the pace these past couple of weeks to build it back up again. Unfortunately it has coincided with the time of year that the freezer needs defrosting, but that just means we’ll have to eat it as quickly as I make it. Again, there are no losers in this scenario.

A close up of ice cream in a tankard

Chocolate and Orange Ricotta Ice Cream

Georgina Hartley
A light and zesty orange ice cream, tangy with ricotta and studded with dark chocolate shards.
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Prep Time 40 mins
Cook Time 10 mins
Resting time 13 hrs
Course Dessert
Cuisine British
Servings 6 people
Calories 400 kcal

Ingredients
  

  • 250 ml double cream
  • 100 ml whole milk
  • 1 orange - zest only
  • 240 g ricotta
  • 6 egg yolks
  • 90 g caster sugar
  • 50 g dark chocolate

Instructions
 

  • Mix together the double cream, milk and orange zest in a medium saucepan and warm through. Set aside for 1 hour to infuse.
  • Mix the ricotta in with the cream mixture and heat in a medium saucepan until just under a boil.
  • In a large bowl whisk together the egg yolks and caster sugar until smooth.
  • Pour the ricotta mixture into the egg mixture in very slow and steady stream whisking constantly.
  • When everything is combined pour back into the saucepan and heat until just under a boil and the mixture has thickened.
  • Strain to remove the zest, then chill for at least 4 hours.
  • Churn in an ice cream machine for 20 minutes until thickened. Sprinkle in the chocolate chips and continue churning for a minute to evenly disperse.
  • Decant into ice cream tubs and freeze for at least 8 hours before serving.

Nutrition

Calories: 400kcalCarbohydrates: 25gProtein: 10gFat: 30gSaturated Fat: 17gCholesterol: 275mgSodium: 67mgPotassium: 214mgFiber: 1gSugar: 20gVitamin A: 1125IUVitamin C: 11.9mgCalcium: 167mgIron: 1.6mg
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Many years ago Luke tried to persuade me than I didn’t need yet another space hogging kitchen gadget that I didn’t use so I bought my ice cream maker on the sly. I honestly haven’t looked back and I am always thrilled to reach down for it and put it to use. I chose the Magimix Le Glacier 1.1 Ltr Ice Cream Maker (White) on a whim but it’s been absolutely brilliant and was very reasonable so I heartily recommend it.

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Hello, so lovely of you to drop by. I am Georgina. I bake a lot, eat a lot and love writing about my gluten-free kitchen adventures here. I run a gluten-free cake business but am mostly kept busy with my 2 cats, 1 dog, 1 husband, 2 gorgeous sons and twin baby girls.

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