What is Cookie Jar Ice Cream? It’s a homemade ice cream mixture with three kinds of cookie crumbles mixed in, just like at fancy ice cream shops, except in your own kitchen at home.

You may remember the Dairy Queen Cookie Jar Ice Cream Blizzard? It was filled with crumbled Oreos, chocolate chip cookie dough, and fudge. Now you can make your own with our easy recipe. It’s not a Blizzard, it’s even better because it’s homemade.

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If you have ever stood in front of the ice cream freezers at the grocery store on a hot summer day and tried to decide which flavor was the most appealing to you, then you know the possibilities of flavor combinations are really endless.

For the sake of making a decision, we are making our recipe today with a combination of homemade churned vanilla ice cream loaded with three kinds of our favorite cookies, crumbled and mixed in. It may be a little bit like when you were a child and made one of those soda fountain drinks by mixing every flavor, and you loved it. Are you still doing that?

How To Make Cookie Crumble Ice Cream

Do you remember the Sonic cookie jar shake from a few summers ago? So Sonic and Dairy Queen have nothing on us! We are using similar cookies for our ice cream mix-ins: Oreo, Nutter Butter, and Chewy Chips Ahoy Chocolate Chip cookies. Get ready for an ultimate summer treat for your family, without going to a restaurant. The best part, it’s a simple recipe.

Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream Ingredients

• 3/4 Cup sugar
• 2 cups heavy cream
• 2 Cups whole milk
• 1 tsp Vanilla extract, I use this brand

Cookie Mix-In Ingredients

• 1/2 Cup Oreo cookies, crumbled
• 1/2 Cup Chewy Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, crumbled
• 1/2 Cup Nutter Butter Cookies, crumbled

Step1

Begin by making your ice cream base. Add the sugar, heavy cream, milk, and vanilla to a medium mixing bowl and beat on medium speed until the sugar is dissolved.

Step 2

Pour the mixture into your ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer’s directions. Your fresh creamy ice cream will be ready in about 30 minutes or so.

Step 3

Just before the ice cream is almost completely set, add the cookie crumbles mixture. Turn the ice cream maker back on and let it finish making.

Optional Step

The finished ice cream will be soft serve. To make a firmer ice cream, transfer the finished ice cream to a freezer-safe container like a loaf pan and smooth the top with the back of a spoon. Cover with plastic wrap and place in the freezer for about 4 to 6 hours or overnight.

Makes about one quart of liquid and 1 1/2 quarts of frozen ice cream. Including the prep time, you can be sitting down to a bowl of fresh homemade soft serve ice cream in under one hour.

This churn ice cream recipe uses simple ingredients and one piece of special equipment which is the ice cream maker. We use the Cuisinart ICE-30BC Pure Indulgence 2-Quart Automatic Frozen Yogurt, Sorbet, and Ice Cream Maker, available on Amazon. It takes this recipe about 30 minutes to freeze in our Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker.

Summer brings good things like this no-bake dessert the whole family will enjoy. The best part is that you get to make this delicious dessert again and again now that you have the easy recipe. Don’t think of it as making dessert so much as making memories.

Use this easy, delicious vanilla ice cream recipe anytime with or without the cookies mixed in. You cannot beat a no-bake dessert ready in less than an hour on a hot summer day, especially when it’s homemade ice cream.

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