Gianni's Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream

What is it?

Brownie in ice cream lives or dies on whether the pieces stay chewy in the cold. A brownie is high in sugar and fat and low in flour compared with a cake, and that composition is exactly what stops it freezing into something hard. The pieces here go through a chocolate base rather than a vanilla one, which is the less common choice. Vanilla gives contrast and makes the brownie more visible, where a chocolate base makes the tub read as a single deeper flavour with texture rather than two things in a pot. Cocoa in both the base and the inclusion means there's nothing acidic or fruity anywhere to cut it, so this is one of the richer things Gianni's makes.