For the Deepest, Darkest Chocolate Ice Cream, Add Cocoa Nibs





This is a story for the chocolate fans. The hardcore fans. The ones who shy away from chocolate desserts because they're always too light on the chocolate. The people who take their chocolate like goth kids take their souls: dark, moody, and bitter.

This is for you because I'm one of you. Hand me a dessert menu and my eyes glaze over the requisite chocolate option like it's not even there. Because it's usually not—not from a hardcore chocolate lover's point of view, anyway. Chocolaty? Sure. Maybe fudgy and brownie-esque, or milky like that "chocolate" milkshake made from vanilla ice cream and some syrup. Perhaps even "dark," if you're speaking to the type of novice who also counts 50 Shades of Grey as legit erotica. But not the intensely concentrated bitter and tart complexities of a real dark chocolate bar.

Today it's time to change that by whipping up a dessert that's not just chocolaty, but actually full-on crazy-dark chocolate, something as good and complex as the bar. Like any dark journey, getting there takes knowing your enemy and keeping a secret trick up your sleeve. So get out your three-pronged lightsaber, because we're heading to the dark side.

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