Bridget Jones loves vegging out with a pint of ice cream, so I knew I had to go for a decadent flavor for this pairing.

This vegan, gluten-free dark chocolate sorbet recipe makes 2-3 pints or 4-6 “servings.”

Ingredients
1 tablespoon cocoa powder
2 tablespoons sugar
2 cups water
1 teaspoon xanthan gum
1 teaspoon chocolate extract
0.75 cups vegan mini chocolate chips, divided

Instructions
Blend the cocoa powder, sugar, water, xanthan gum, chocolate extract and a quarter cup of chocolate chips together until everything is evenly mixed.

What happens next depends on your ice cream maker. If you have a more standard one, you’ll pull your chilled (for 24 hours) bowl out and make the ice cream.

If you have one like mine, you pour the mixture into two or three pints, then freeze them for 24 hours.

After that time, you put each pint into your ice cream maker on the sorbet setting and let it do its magic. (Get my ice cream 101 tips here.)

For a triple take on the dark chocolate, add the additional chocolate chips in there at the end of a normal ice cream maker’s cycle or using the mix-in setting if you have one like mine. If you have one like mine, add a quarter cup to each pint.

Enjoy straight from the pint or scooped into a bowl with “Bridget Jones’s Diary!”

The Easy Route
This one is pretty easy, but you can skip the chocolate chips if you don’t want the extra chocolate.

Have a favorite premade chocolate sorbet? Share the brand and/or store name in the comments.

The Pairing
“Bridget Jones’s Diary” is one of my favorite movies set (mostly) in the holiday season.

I read the book right before the movie came out in 2001, and I saw the movie the week it came out. It was also one of the first movies I added to my DVD collection, and I have literally seen it probably 50 times.

Renée Zellweger, Hugh Grant and Colin Firth are all at the top of their game in this modern romcom retelling of “Pride and Prejudice,” another one of my favorite books.

The main plot: Bridget (Zellweger) finds herself in a love triangle with two rivals, old family acquaintance Mark Darcy (Firth) and her boss, Daniel Cleaver (Grant).

This movie is one I have come back to a lot in the last 23 years, and that is in large part because it portrays Bridget as a real woman who has frizzy hair, isn’t a size 2 and is struggling to find her place both in romance and her career.

While a lot of focus has been put on how to change her appearance (especially in the promos), the main takeaway of the movie for me was how you can find your place in the world without having to change all of those surface level things about yourself, which was a very important message for me to read and see when I was 14.

Of course, the movie is firmly set in 2001 and may not have aged perfectly, but it is still a sharp contrast to a lot of other romcoms of the era, which have contributed to it being a lasting favorite despite two subpar sequels. (There’s a fourth film coming next year, too, that will hopefully be better than the second and third go arounds.)

On top of the three leads, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” boasts a stellar supporting cast, from her parents (Jim Broadbent and Gemma Jones) to her best friends (Shirley Henderson, James Callis and Sally Phillips) to snooty coworkers (Embeth Davidtz and Felicity Montagu).

I highly recommend checking out this renowned romcom if you’re looking for a cozy watch this winter.

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