Copycat Ben & Jerry's Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe | CDKitchen.com (2024)

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What kind of chocolate is in Ben and Jerry's? ›

Our chocolate ice cream gets its chocolatey awesomeness from Fairtrade Certified® cocoa.

CREAM, SKIM MILK, LIQUID SUGAR (SUGAR, WATER), WATER, EGG YOLKS, SUGAR, GUAR GUM, VANILLA EXTRACT, VANILLA BEANS, CARRAGEENAN.

If you're a fan of Ben & Jerry's, you like ice cream with low overrun. A low overrun means less air content and more room for butterfat (the fat from milk and dairy products), leaving you with richer, denser ice cream.

Our little cocoa bean starts out where around 40% of the world's cocoa comes from: on a farm in the Ivory Coast. So far, so average. But, what makes our bean not-so-average is that unlike a lot of the cocoa here, it's produced in Fairtrade(Opens in new window) conditions.

Blame Ben For Our Chunk Obsession

Co-founder Ben Cohen has no sense of smell and very little sense of taste. So when he was developing our earliest ice cream flavors, he loved the texture of the big chunks. Fans loved it too, and it's since become our signature style.

Guided by our Core Values, we seek in all we do, at every level of our business, to advance human rights and dignity, support social and economic justice for historically marginalized communities, and protect and restore the Earth's natural systems. In other words: we use ice cream to change the world.

"It's principally around the costs of labour, logistics and energy and what our suppliers see in their own production bases," finance chief Graeme Pitkethly said.

So a ton of fudge, peanut butter, and pretzels mixed into malt ice cream—it's pretty clear how this ice cream accumulates so much saturated fat, carbs, and sugar, yes? There's a reason it's one of their most popular pints. And finally, the most unhealthy ice cream pint of them all is Ben & Jerry's Peanut Butter Cup.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough / Cookie Dough is by far the world's most favourite Ben & Jerry's flavour. If you're in Europe, it's just called Cookie Dough, but in the Americas, South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand, it goes by Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough.

Why is Ben and Jerry's ice cream so high in calories? ›

Dietitians say ice creams contain a large number of calories because they are made from a mixture of milk, cream and sugar — and must be at least 10 percent milk fat.

The new oat base, the brand says, “creates a smoother texture, allowing flavors like chocolate, decadent caramel, mint and rich vanilla to shine as intended.” It also reduces nut allergens, increasing inclusivity for those who are sensitive to nuts.

Häagen-Dazs has flavors like vanilla, chocolate, pistachio—the sort of flavors that run smooth. And then Ben & Jerry's specializes in chunky flavors: Cherry Garcia, The Tonight Dough, Chunky Monkey, etc.

In the ice cream world, the amount of air whipped into the final product is called overrun. Ben & Jerry's and Häagen-Dazs vanilla ice creams weigh more than 100 grams per half cup (120 grams), so they contain roughly 20% air.

What chocolate is used in our cookies? Our cookies contain the best quality chocolate. We source our White chocolate direct from Belgium and our Dark and Milk chocolate comes from a Swiss/Belgian company manufactured in the UK.

It seems like the chips in most ice cream are actually chunks of a thin sheet of dark chocolate that's much crunchier than if you just chopped up a bar of chocolate.

Semisweet chocolate.

Use whatever percentage you prefer, just know that milk chocolate will result in a sweeter ice cream, and the darker the chocolate used the more intense the chocolate flavor will be.

Callebaut is a Belgian coverture chocolate manufacturer owned by the Barry Callebaut group and based in Belgium. It was founded in 1911 by Octaaf Callebaut in Belgium. Coverture chocolate contains high amounts of cocoa butter and is often used by gourmet and culinary professionals.