Rocky Highway Ice Cream – Barefeet within the Kitchen

Selfmade Rocky Highway Ice Cream is creamy chocolate and almond-flavored ice cream loaded with chewy marshmallows, crunchy almonds, and flecks of chocolate.

Selfmade Rocky Highway Ice Cream

Do you know that Rocky Highway was one of many first ice cream flavors that combined in extra components? I’m so glad that turned a factor as a result of I’m hooked on fully loaded ice creams.

Rocky Highway has been considered one of my high 5 favourite ice cream flavors ever since I used to be a child. Though, that might not be saying a lot as a result of I additionally adored gumball ice cream and the very considered it now makes me cringe.

In all seriousness although, who doesn’t love an ice cream loaded with marshmallows? I can take or depart marshmallows in lots of different recipes, however in creamy chocolate? They’re chewy candy perfection.

When you’re a fan of rocky street flavors, you’ll wish to attempt Rocky Road Fudge and Rocky Road Chocolate Bark too!

Ice cream is the right approach to have a good time the approaching hotter days of summer season. (In direct distinction to the truth that once we lived within the desert, the tip of summer season was the extra thrilling cause to have a good time.) Regardless, will we even want an excuse to convey out the ice cream maker and churn one thing new?

The preferred query I get is whether or not it’s doable to make ice cream with out a machine. The reply is YES. You may make ice cream with out a machine. Find the full directions here!

When you’re new to home made ice cream and all the deliciousness that awaits you, I like to recommend beginning with The Best and Easiest Ice Cream recipe. It’s excellent each for ice cream makers and for making ice cream with out a machine.

What’s in Rocky Highway Ice Cream?

Are you an ice cream nerd like me? Desire a enjoyable story? Rocky street ice cream was created nearly 100 years in the past when William Dreyer, of Dreyer’s ice cream (aka Edy’s in case you’re east of the Rocky Mountains), used a pair of scissors and minimize up marshmallows and walnuts and added them to a bowl of chocolate ice cream.

Because the story goes, he preferred it a lot, it turned a taste for his ice cream model. Ultimately, the flavour was named Rocky Highway, shortly after the Wall Avenue Crash of 1929, “to provide people one thing to smile about within the midst of the Nice Despair.”

Questioning what occurred to the walnuts? They had been changed with almonds shortly after the flavour was formally named. I’ve made this with each walnuts and almonds and the almonds win out for me personally, as effectively.

Whereas there may be some dispute concerning the origins, (isn’t there with nearly the whole lot?) that is the story I’ve heard most frequently and it nonetheless makes me smile.

Rocky Highway Ice Cream Components

You’ll want the next components to make this recipe:

• sugar
• unsweetened cocoa powder
• salt
• heavy cream
• milk
• vanilla extract
• almond extract
• semi-sweet chocolate chips
• sliced almonds
• miniature marshmallows

Rocky Highway Ice Cream Recipe

1. Whisk collectively the sugar, cocoa, and salt in a medium-sized saucepan. Add the cream and milk, stir, and produce to a boil over medium-high warmth whereas stirring continuously. Decrease the warmth and simmer for two minutes.
2. Take away from the warmth and add the chocolate chips, vanilla, and almond extract. Stir to dissolve the chocolate. Let cool after which refrigerate for a minimum of 6 hours, till chilly.
3. Pour the chilled combination into your ice cream machine and freeze based on the producer’s directions.
4. When it has completed churning, switch it to an hermetic container, add the marshmallows and almonds, and stir to mix. Cowl and freeze till able to serve. 

Selfmade Rocky Highway Ice Cream

This recipe for rocky street may be made with common, dutch-processed, or additional darkish cocoa powder. Be at liberty to make use of semi-sweet or darkish chocolate chips.

I make this ice cream with a mix of no matter goodies I’ve available on the time or no matter I occur to be craving. I’m an enormous fan of additional darkish chocolate, so the darkish cocoa powder with darkish chocolate chips mixture makes me grin.

My children favor the semi-sweet and extra conventional rocky street taste. All of us agree although that the almond extract right here makes it additional particular. (And at any time when we purchase a carton of rocky street now, it appears like it’s lacking one thing!)

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initially revealed 8/20/15 – recipe notes and pictures up to date 4/28/23