Homemade Blueberry Swirl White Chocolate Ice Cream
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White chocolate ice cream with a blueberry swirl is a lovely homemade treat! With a creamy white chocolate base and a blueberry swirl throughout, this ice cream is perfect for warm summer days!
Now that the weather is finally warming up here, I am all about that ice cream life! Especially if that life includes this white chocolate ice cream with a blueberry swirl!
This recipe is really perfect timing. Because in case you haven’t heard, my friend Sip + Sanity and I are teaming up for a cozy mystery cooking club, the first book of which is all about ice cream!
Huh, weird how that timing worked out right? Almost like someone planned it that way…
Anyways, the first book of our cozy mystery cooking club is A Deadly Inside Scoop by Abby Collette and it centers around the protagonist and her ice cream shop.
As part of the cozy mystery cooking club, Linda from Sip + Sanity and I want to share recipes inspired by the books we read.
And since the first one is all about ice cream, well, then so are we!
I can’t even tell you how much of this white chocolate ice cream I have eaten since we cooked up this plan.
I have been testing and testing, and frankly, ice cream is much harder to get right than I realized!
Getting the right proportions, the right ingredients, the right timing…a lot goes into ice cream making!
But this white chocolate ice cream with blueberry swirl is worth it. We love it and I hope you do too!
White Chocolate Ice Cream with Blueberry Swirl
It’s creamy and delicious, with white chocolate undertones in the base and a blueberry swirl throughout.
I’m a huge white chocolate fan so I really wanted to use it in my ice cream!
The white chocolate is melted into the ice cream mixture and chilled before adding to an ice cream maker. The blueberry swirl mixture is made ahead, and swirled through the churned ice cream before freezing completely.
Not gonna lie, it does take a bit of planning and forethought to make this ice cream. Though that’s pretty much true with most ice creams!
You need to follow the directions on your ice cream maker for freezing the churning bowl, first of all. Many home ice cream makers require the bowl to be completely frozen before you make the ice cream.
My ice cream maker bowl takes a little over 24 hours to completely freeze, and it is important that it’s completely frozen.
So, if you remember to do that (I definitely forgot the first time I made this ice cream!), then there are a just a few other things to take note.
notes
First, this ice cream has two parts- the white chocolate base, and the blueberry swirl. Both need to be made ahead of the time that you will churn it.
This is because you really want the ice cream mixture to be cold when you run it through the ice cream machine. It helps to churn it to the proper consistency. For one of my batches I even left my mixture in the fridge overnight before churning it.
But I recommend at least 6 hours of chill time for your ice cream mixture before running it through your ice cream maker.
And similarly, you want the blueberry swirl mix to be cold so you don’t end up melting the freshly churned ice cream when you swirl it in.
So it does take a little bit of planning ahead to make this white chocolate ice cream with blueberry swirl.
If you have a big enough freezer, I suggest just keeping your ice cream churning bowl in there all the time. Then you can make ice cream any time with more minimal plan ahead time!
And who doesn’t want ice cream all the time? I know I do!
It was a lot of fun making this ice cream. I have not really made ice cream myself before, but used to help my mom when I was younger to make some.
The process takes me back to those summer days of enjoying homemade ice cream. I’ll definitely be making more in the future!
If you try this white chocolate ice cream with blueberry swirl, let me know how it turns out! I think this might be my new favorite flavor of ice cream.
What’s your favorite ice cream? Let me know in the comments!
xoxo
White Chocolate Ice Cream
Ingredients
For the Blueberry Swirl:
- 1 cup blueberries fresh or frozen
- 2 tbsp sugar
- ½ tsp lemon juice
- 2 tbsp water
For the Ice Cream:
- 8 oz white chocolate chopped
- 2 cups heavy cream
- 1 1/4 cup 2% milk
- ⅓ cup sugar
Instructions
Make the blueberry swirl:
- Combine blueberries, sugar, lemon juice, and water in a pot.
- Heat over medium heat for about 10-15 minutes until the berries release their juices, and you have a liquidy compote. Be careful not to overcook and burn, and stir every so often. Let the berries sit in the pan for 15 minutes or so until the mixture is cooler.
- Pour the swirl mixture through a sieve into a bowl, pushing to get the juice and as much berry meat through as possible, leaving the skins behind. Chill this mixture for 1-3 hours.
For the Ice Cream:
- Place the chopped white chocolate in a heat proof bowl.
- Heat the heavy cream in a pot over medium low just until hot. Do not boil. When it’s hot, pour the heavy cream over the white chocolate in the bowl, and whisk together until the chocolate is melted and incorporated into the cream.
- Combine the white chocolate and heavy cream mixture with the 2% milk and sugar. Whisk it all together. Cover the bowl with plastic wrap, allowing some to rest on the surface of the mixture. This will prevent a skin from forming. Chill in the fridge for at least 6 hours.
- Place your container that you will store the ice cream into the freezer to chill while your ice cream churns.
- After the ice cream mixture has chilled, put the mixture through your ice cream maker according to the maker’s directions.
- Once it’s done churning, pour ½ of the ice cream into your freezable container and drizzle in half of the blueberry swirl mixture on top. Swirl it gently through the ice cream. Place the other half of the ice cream on top in the container and drizzle with the other half of the blueberry swirl. Swirl again gently through.
- Freeze the ice cream until desired. Once frozen, enjoy!
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Thank you for sharing this! The flavor combination was great! I had my base in the fridge for maybe 14 hours before making. It was silky smooth when I put it in, but when I went to use it, it was grainy. So I was a little worried, but it ended up churning to perfection (or as close as my lower-end ice cream maker will get lol).
I used Ghirardelli white chocolate melting chips and I have mixed luck with those generally, so I decided to heat and dissolve the sugar with my heavy cream. I think that was a good choice?? to help make the chocolate melt more smoothly. My mistake though was not reducing the compote enough. I think I needed just a couple more minutes there. Also, would you recommend any salt if you had to do it again? I didn’t add any, but wondered if it would benefit from a pinch? May throw in a little lemon zest next time too if I were getting fancy haha! Thanks again for this lovely treat!
Hi Roberta, thank you so much for your kind comments! I’m so glad you enjoyed it. I know what you mean about the melting chips – I think that was a good idea to heat with the heavy cream. I have not tried it with salt personally, but the recipe is quite sweet so I think you could add just a pinch and see how it turns out! And the lemon zest idea sounds delicious too. If you try those changes out, let me know how it goes, I’d love to try them myself next time!
This looks so Yummy! Can’t wait to try it.
Thank you!
White chocolate and blueberry are two flavors I have never had together, but I think I would like for sure! This ice cream sounds divine. It would be fun to enjoy while reading the book. 🙂
I’m not even sure why I chose those two flavors haha! But it popped into my head and I thought, hey that sounds nice! Thanks for commenting!
Oh my gosh this sounds and looks super delicious! I’ve not tried making homemade ice cream before but will definitely have to try.
This was my first try at making homemade ice cream, and it was super fun! Hope you enjoy if you try!
This looks amazing and the Cozy Mystery Cooking Club sounds great! I can’t wait to make this ice cream and read the book. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you! I hope you enjoy it!
Yum! These sound and look amazing! I’ll definitely be trying this recipe.
Thank you!
This looks so amazing! Now I’m going to have to get the ice cream maker bowl thingy to go with my mixer. But seriously…that blueberry swirl! Swooning!
Thank you!