Black Cherry Ice Cream

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Black cherry ice cream is an easy to make, rich and creamy no churn vanilla ice cream infused with sweet black cherry syrup, chunks of black cherries and chopped chocolate.

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Wash, dry, de-stem and pit the cherries or use frozen cherries that are already pitted.

Step 1:  

Add the cherries, sugar and lemon juice to a sauce pan. Cook the cherriesover medium heat for about 5 - 10 minutes, stirring frequently, until the cherries transform into a chunky cherry sauce. Cool the cherry sauce to room temperature before mixing into the ice cream base.

Step 2:  

Once the mixture has cooled, strain the cherry syrup into a large mixing bowl using a fine mesh strainer. Reserve the cherry pieces for mixing into the ice cream at the same time as the chopped chocolate.

Step 3:  

Add the sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract and almond extract to the same bowl as the strained cherry syrup. Whisk the sweetened cherry syrup mixture together until smooth and very well combined.

Step 4:  

Make the whippd cream. Add the sweetened condensed milk and cherry mixture to the same mixing bowl as the whipped cream. Mix the whipped cream with the cherry syrup mixture until all the ingredients are fully combined. Fold in the reserved cherries and most of the chopped chocolate. Reserve 2 -3 tablespoons to add to the top of the ice cream.

Step 5:  

Assemble the black cherry ice cream. Evenly spread about ½ of the base cherry ice cream into a large freezer safe container. If you are using cherry jam, swirl ¼ cup of cherry jam into the base ice cream. Repeat the remaining ½ of the cherry ice cream base, followed by another ¼ cup cherry jam. Top with more chopped chocolate if you like.

Step 6:  

Transfer to the freezer to set for 1 - 2 hours. Then cover the entire container in plastic wrap and a layer of foil. Freeze the ice cream for another 6 hours, but preferably overnight.

Step 7:  

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