Strawberry Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

Churned with a fresh strawberry sauce and lots of chocolate chip pieces, this strawberry chocolate chip ice cream is dreamy with fresh summer strawberries!

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Name a better summer trio than ice cream, strawberries, and chocolate, I’ll wait.

While I’m waiting I may just help myself to another scoop of this ice cream because the obsession is REAL over here, lemme tell ya.

This is everybody’s kind of ice cream, folks. We’ve got fruit + chocolate all covered here and this recipe uses the easiest starter vanilla base that literally anyone can make it’s so easy.

If I can get on my strawberry soapbox for a quick sec here though, PLEASE do yourself a favor and use fresh summer strawberries for this recipe. Trust me, it really does make all the difference here.

Also, please sneak some of those chocolate bits for yourself while you’re making this. An essential part of the process.

This Ice Cream Features…

• A base of creamy vanilla ice cream
• Swirls of juicy fresh strawberry sauce
• Crunchy chocolate chip bits

Making the Ice Cream

(scroll down to the bottom of the post for the full recipe)

Ingredients You Will Need

• Strawberries
• Granulated sugar
• Lemon juice
• 2% or skim milk
• Egg yolks
• Heavy whipping cream
• Vanilla extract
• Salt
• Semisweet or dark chocolate

Ice Cream Maker Recommendations

I use a Cuisinart ice cream maker for all my homemade ice creams and would highly recommend this machine. Any 2-quart ice cream maker will work with this recipe, just make sure you follow the machine instructions.

Tips for Perfect Homemade Ice Cream

1. Reduce strawberries on stovetop – cook diced strawberries with a little sugar and lemon juice to make them tender and jammy for the ice cream.
2. Make sure all ingredients are cold – keep all the dairy products in the refrigerator until just before assembly so the ice cream can freeze properly during churning.
3. Heat sugar in 1 cup milk – this will dissolve the sugar and get it ready for the ice cream.
4. Whisk egg yolks into warm milk mixture – this will cook the egg yolks and add extra richness to the ice cream.
5. Chill milk mixture 1 hour – this chilling step is necessary to cool down the milk-sugar mixture before churning. By not heating up all the milk in the recipe this eliminates having to wait longer for the milk-sugar mixture to chill.
6. Churn ice cream according to manufacturer instructions – make sure you follow your machine’s instructions for any extra churning steps.
7. Add strawberries and chocolate at the end – adding these components during the last 10 minutes of churning will blend them easily into the ice cream base and won’t make the texture icy.
8. Freeze ice cream 1-2 hours before serving – you can serve the ice cream straight out of the machine for soft-serve style or freeze it 1-2 hours after churning for firmer scoops.

Recipe Variations

Try these ideas for a different twist on this ice cream.

• Use a different fruit – try peaches, raspberries, or blueberries.
• Try another chocolate – you can use dark, semisweet, milk, or white chocolate here.
• Add nuts – try adding 1/2 cup toasted pecans or walnuts.

Storing Ice Cream

This ice cream stores well in the freezer up to 1 week. I can guarantee that it won’t last that long though.

Summer days were MADE for double scoops of this goodness, friends! The jammy strawberries + crunchy bits of chocolate work to perfection here and you really can’t help but go back for that inevitable third scoop.

Pretty sure our summer ice cream game is game, set, match with this.

More ice creams you’ve gotta try next!

• Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
• Coconut Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
• Coffee Banana Ice Cream

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This post was updated with new recipe adjustments and photos on 8/12/26.