Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cream Cheese Swirl Brownie Ice Cream (now that's a mouthful)

This flavor, once again, came from me having too many sweets in the apartment and not knowing how best to consume them. Perhaps for my next flavor I'll actually consult my ever-growing list of ideas.

For Valentine's Day, I made my sweetie some of these brownies. They were damn good. However, because I am incredibly cheap, I used a full 8 ounces of cream cheese and only 4 ounces of goat cheese. Doing the recipe by the book would have involved me spending $10 on goat cheese! No way dude. I also managed to find a decent-looking 6 ounce container of fresh raspberries for $2.50! Very strange for this time of year. And that's another change I made to the recipe - I put the full 6 ounces of berries into the cheese swirl and just put an extra handful of chocolate chips into the batter instead of adding berries to the brownie batter. I just didn't see the point. The chocolate flavor would have overwhelmed the berries.


Dark Chocolate Raspberry Cream Cheese Swirl Brownie Ice Cream

Ingredients


2 cups whole milk
1 cup heavy cream
3/4 cup sugar
a ton of chopped brownies

Instructions


Man these instructions are beginning to sound redundant!

I heated the whole milk and sugar in a small saucepan on low for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally to ensure the sugar was fully dissolved. Next I poured that mixture, along with the cream, into the KitchenAid for another 5 minutes to combine.

After the batter was mixed, I poured it into some tupperware and threw it into the freezer to chill for a few minutes while I chopped the brownies! These had been in the freezer prior to chopping in hopes that they wouldn't crumble in the ice cream the same way the carrot cake did. I like my chunks!

You may think this amount looks like overkill, but I think it's just right! The more chunks, the better the ice cream.

I put in so many chunks they wouldn't all incorporate into the batter! Now that's what I like to see :D

Well isn't this not the pretty picture I was hoping for?
So I only let this churn for about 16 minutes instead of the full 20 as I should have. It looked done! Anywho, that's the last time I go on looks instead of numbers. I suppose I could have put this slushy pile back into the KitchenAid to churn for a few minutes, but I was feeling lazy. So I ended up with part ice cream, part icy slush, which didn't make for the fluffiest ice cream :/
Still turned out pretty tasty though! And the chunks were awesome.