Chocolate Ice Candy – Easy & Delicious Chocolatey Summer Treat

Chocolate Ice Candy is a creamy frozen treat that’s made with just 5 easy to find and affordable ingredients, wrapped in a plastic bag then chilled to perfection. The Filipino equivalent to an ice lolly ( popsicle ).

This milky ice candy is the perfect blend of childhood nostalgia and quick summer refreshments. This budget friendly creamy chocolatey treat is sure to cool you down on a hot summer’s say while still satisfying your sweet tooth.

Chocolate Ice Candy Ingredients :

• Water – helps dilute the cocoa powder and keeps the mixture watery enough that it won’t burn the bottom of the pan.
• Unsweetened Cocoa Powder – gives us that delectable chocolate flavor, you can also choose to use your favorite milk powder or any flavored powder.
• Condensed milk – adds sweetness, milkiness, and helps thicken this desserts.
• Evaporated milk – to give the recipe it’s strong milky taste.
• Brown sugar – make sure to give the mixture a taste at the end before adding more sugar if needed.
• Cassava flour – this recipe’s natural thickener.
• Pinipig – rice flakes to be added at the end to give the ice candy a nice crunchy texture.

Chocolate Flavor Ice Candy Recipe

Ingredients :

• 2 liters water
• 1 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 can condensed milk (390g)
• 1 can evaporated milk (370ml)
• brown sugar as needed
• 1 cup cassava flour (or cornstarch) (for smooth texture)
• pinipig (rice flakes) (optional)

Steps :

1. Boil 2 liters water. In another bowl, dissolve cocoa powder in 1 cup hot water. Set aside.

2. Once the water is boiling, add the evaporated milk, condensed milk and dissolved cocoa powder. Taste for sweetness. Add sugar as needed. Mix well and let it boil.

3. Dissolve cassava flour in 1 cup room-temp water. Add to the boiling ice candy mixture. Stir continuously. Make sure there are no lumps. Simmer for 5 minutes.

4. Remove from heat and let it cool. Once cooled down, add in pinipig if you want. Pour in ice candy plastics. FREEZE.

Beat the Heat with this Easy Chocolate Ice Candy Recipe! A classic Frozen dessert you can find abundantly sold during Filipino summers. Loved by kids and adults alike; all you need is cocoa powder, water, condensed milk, evaporated milk, brown sugar, and cassava flour ( or any type of flour like the examples below ). A delicious frozen dessert to enjoy at home with family as a snack or dessert, or even as a small business to make during the hotter months.

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Questions

• Chocolate Ice Candy Calories

This treat has around 40 to 190 calories.

• Cassava Flour Alternatives

You can replace the Cassava Flour with Cornstarch for a ” Chocolate Ice Candy with Cornstarch ” recipe. You can also choose to use potato starch if both are unavailable.

• Additional Ingredients to add in this chocolate milk ice candy ?
  • Make some chocolate flavored ice cream by adding bits and pieces of fruits. For example add in strawberry bits once the pot of chocolate mixture cools down for strawberry chocolate ice candy, mango for mango chocolate ice candy.
  • Or simply add chocolate bits like M&M’S, Smarties, any chocolate snack for a bit of texture.
  • You can also choose to use other milk powders like Ovaltine, Milo ( to make the popular Milo Ice Candy Recipe ) , Nesquik ( with mix of other Nestle chocolate bits to make Nestle Ice Candy ), or any of your favorite milk powders.

How to make Chocolate Ice Candy with Cassava Flour

( Tagalog )

Mga Sangkap :

• 2 litro ng tubig
• 1 tasa ng unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1 lata ng condensed milk (390g)
• 1 lata ng evaporated milk (370ml)
• kayumangging asukal kung kinakailangan
• 1 tasa cassava flour ( o cornstarch ) ( para sa smooth texture )
• pinipig (rice flakes) ( opsyonal )

Paano Lutuin :

1. Magkulo ng 2 litro ng tubig. Sa ibang mangok haluin ang cocoa powder sa 1 tasa ng mainit na tubig. Itabi.
2. Pagkumukulo na ang tubig, haluan ng evaporated milk, condensed milk, at hinalong cocoa powder mixture. Tikman at haluan ng asukal kung kulang pa sa tamis. Haluin at pakuluin muli.
3. I-dissolve ang cassava flour sa 1 tasa ng maligamgam na tubig. Bago ihalo ito sa kumukulong ice candy mixture. Haluin ng tuloy-tuloy para walang buobuo. Pakuluin ng 5 minuto.
4. Tanggalin sa init at palamigin. Pag malamig-lamig na haluan ng pinipig kung gusto. Ilagay sa mga ice candy na palstik. Ifreeze.