Are you an ice cream lover? Do you want to make ice creams at home that are delicious and healthier than the commercial options available? Here are some fine recommendations.
Summer is perhaps the best season to enjoy ice cream, and this summer, it is time to take a healthy dose with homemade ice cream recipes. While you can easily find plenty of choices to buy from stores, you are not entirely sure of the ingredients in them. The packaged ice creams are often filled with frozen palm oil and preservatives that make it worse for the body, especially for kids. Let’s find some healthy ice-cream recipes that you can easily make at home and share with the young ones.
- Old-fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream
No matter how many new flavors arrive, nothing can beat the old-fashioned vanilla, which is simple, tasty, and goes with everything. This is a summer staple dessert that everyone loves, and the creamy texture makes it perfect. In order to make it, you would need condensed milk, evaporated milk, whole milk, egg, and vanilla extract or essence. It is super easy to make, as you can just mix all the ingredients together and put them in the ice-cream maker to get it done. You can add a bit of sugar if you want, but try not to make it too sweet, as it will lack taste. You can also add toppings and sprinkles of your choice with a big scoop of this ice cream.
- Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
There is something about the ice cream and the cookies that goes perfectly with the combination of softness and crunchiness. Perhaps that is the reason why Oreo ice cream became so famous instantly. This ice cream is mainly made with vanilla as it complements the flavor of cookies and chocolate chips. In order to make this, you would need edible cookie dough, egg yolks, sugar, heavy cream, milk, a pinch of salt, vanilla essence, and a lot of chocolate chips. Make sure to prepare the cookie dough and mix the rest of the ingredients in a bowl. Mix it well for a creamy and fluffy texture and stir it on low heat. Cool down the mixture, and you will have a great ice cream.
- Apple Pie Ice Cream
Apple pie itself is a very tasty dessert that everyone likes. When you can have it in ice cream form, it is even better! The ice cream comes with a beautiful texture where you can taste the apple filling, cinnamon-sugar pie, along with caramel and crusty bits. With a rich, creamy base, swirled with perfectly thick, sweet, gooey apple pie filling, smattered with buttery, sweet bites of pie crust, and a touch of caramel too, this Apple Pie Ice Cream recipe is almost too good to be true!
- Honey Lavender Ice Cream
If you are looking for some floral essence in your ice cream, then this honey lavender ice cream can satisfy you more than enough. It is light but delightful ice cream that comes in lavender color only, and it tastes as good as it looks. A light, refreshing ice cream perfect for Spring or Summer. Make this delicious floral treat for a tea, bridal shower, baby shower, or ladies’ luncheon. Lavender flowers add a gourmet touch to this homemade ice cream. You can also garnish it with a bit of flowers to keep the floral essence intact.
- Strawberry Ice-cream
Those who love a little fruity punch in this ice cream can try this simple recipe in summer. This ice cream can be easily made at home with the help of a few easy ingredients that stay in the freezer in summer. To make this, you would need strawberries, eggs, sugar, salt, vanilla, lemon juice, whipping cream, and whole milk. Add all the ingredients together in the ice cream maker, and you will get a rich, fruity taste that is greatly refreshing on a hot summer day. This ice cream comes with a pink or light red color that is appealing and perfectly goes with the summer vibes.
- Homemade Butterfinger Ice Cream
This is a highly crowd-pleasing ice cream that is enjoyed by people of all ages. The ice cream is mainly made with vanilla-based ice cream filled with chunks of Butterfinger candy bars. In order to make this recipe, you will need the same ingredients as the vanilla ice cream, along with a hefty amount of butter fingers that add flavor to it. It is sweet and slightly savory, offering a perfectly balanced taste that is highly enjoyable on hot summer days. You can also keep a few butter fingers separately to crush them and garnish on your ice cream.
- Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream
I mean, it would be hard to find someone who does not like chocolate ice cream! Having the fun of chocolate and ice cream together is truly irresistible, and now, you can make it at home. It is an easy-to-make ice cream recipe that only needs a total of 7 ingredients. In order to make it, you will need whole milk, egg yolks, cocoa powder, heavy cream, vanilla, salt, granulated sugar, and semi-sweet chocolate. Mix them all together and add the mixture to the ice cream maker to get it done. It is a highly delicious ice cream, and it is recommended to make a big batch as it gets emptied quite quickly.
- Blueberry Ice Cream
This is a brilliant ice cream recipe that involves blueberries as the main ingredient and flavor. The wild taste of the sweet berries, along with a vibrant violet color, makes this ice cream greatly appealing and flavorful. This ice cream can be easily made from simple ingredients like heavy whipping cream, milk, sugar, vanilla extract, and a lot of fresh blueberries. You can make this recipe pretty quickly and carry it outside for your pool parties and summer picnic. It comes with a rich, fruity flavor and tastes a little sweet and sour.
- Butter Pecan Ice Cream (No Churn)
The buttery and creamy taste of this ice cream can make you get “lost in the sauce”! This is one of the easiest ice cream recipes that you can make at home without an ice cream machine. Homemade candied pecans are matched with creamy vanilla to get that beautiful flavor. In order to make this ice cream, you would need condensed milk, heavy cream, brown sugar, cinnamon, butter, vanilla extract, and last but not least, pecans. Pecans are nutty seeds with a lot of nutrients, and that is why this ice cream can be considered a healthy choice in summer, which is packed with energy.
- Key Lime Pie Ice Cream
The lime pie lovers would know its refreshing, zesty flavor that can captivate everyone on a hot summer day. When it uses frozen lime pie to make ice cream, it turns into a masterpiece that you will never get enough of. It is rich, creamy, sweet, and sour at the same time, which makes it highly flavorful and greatly engaging. In order to make this, you would need heavy cream, egg yolks, sweetened condensed milk, key lime juice, and also crumbled graham crackers that offer that crunch and saltiness. Perfectly balanced and delicious, this ice cream is highly recommended for everyone.
- Rainbow Sherbert
You can easily make this gorgeous ice cream recipe at home; however, sherbet is not actually an ice cream but more like a cousin of it. Sherbert or sherbet is mainly made from fruit juice, milk, cream, eggs, or gelatin. Two or three different flavors and colors are added to this recipe to get that rainbow color and mixed flavors with added happiness. While you can combine any kind of flavors, orange, raspberry, and lime are most recommended to get the vibrant color with balanced flavors or sweet and sour. Each scoop can be further complemented with sprinkles and toppings.
- Toffee Bits Chocolate Ice Cream
Chocolate ice creams can come in many forms and flavors. However, the most popular one would be with toffee bits. Toffee or candy bits are sweet, caramel-based, and crunchy. Adding them to regular chocolate ice cream can make it more delicious and dramatic, perfect for the summer days. It is highly recommended to blend sweet chocolate ice cream with salty caramel toffees, which helps to get that beautiful and balanced taste along with a creamy yet crunchy texture. You might fall in love with this ice cream as many people have.
- Creamy Lemon Ice Cream
Sour cream made it clear that cream and sour flavors can actually taste good together, and keeping in mind that combination, you can create creamy lemon ice cream at home that is tasty and greatly engaging. This refreshing tart-like recipe is perfect for the hot summer days when you are seeking something refreshing and cold. In order to make this, you will need egg yolks, white sugar, lemon curd, milk, heavy cream, lemon juice, and lemon zest. The zesty and refreshing taste of this ice cream can captivate everyone.
- Cookies and Cream Ice Cream
This ice cream comes with a rich and creamy taste with a balanced texture of crunchy cookies and creamy ice cream. You will love the decadent version of this ice cream that is rawer and more delicious. In order to make this, you will need egg yolks, sugar, milk, heavy whipping cream, vanilla extract, and a lot of cookies of your choice. You can add any kind of cookies as long as they go with all flavors and textures perfectly. A popular choice for cookies would be Oreos.
- Double Berry Ice Cream
This is a double berry ice cream that includes both blueberries and strawberries. It has a sweet and sour flavor with a fruity punch that tastes great and satisfying during the hot summer days. This Double Berry Ice Cream features a custard-style base that gives you the perfect richness and texture. You can also use other types of berries like blackberry, raspberry, mulberry, and many others. This iconic ice cream is also healthy as it contains a lot of berries that offer natural nutrients, unlike commercial ice creams that offer empty calories.
- Creamy Marshmallow Ice Cream
Everybody loves Marshmallow, and when you add it to ice cream, it is a match made in heaven. This easy ice cream recipe needs only three main ingredients to make it, and it takes only a few minutes to get it done. In order to make this ice cream, you just need heavy cream, sweetened condensed milk, and, of course, the marshmallow fluff. It is rich, smooth, creamy, and delicious to have on summer days, and it comes with a beautiful creamy white color.
- Caramel Macchiato Pecan Ice Cream
Well, this ice cream might have the taste of winter, but isn’t that the exact feeling you want in summer? Feel the fall with caramel macchiato pecan ice cream that is perfect for coffee lovers. It is rich, tasty, and comes with the perfect balance of the bitterness of coffee and the sweetness of ice cream. The caramel and the pecan help to add a savory and nutty flavor, which makes it tasty and heavy as well. The ice cream comes with a beautiful texture, and you will feel like you’re not getting enough of it.
- Homemade Smores Ice Cream
Are you craving the feeling of camping? The smores ice cream can take you directly to the campsite without moving an inch. This is a popular choice that comes with a unique taste. In order to make this ice cream, you would need whole milk, heavy whipping cream, sugar, vanilla, graham crackers, marshmallow crème, chocolate chips, and a unique ingredient, which is coconut oil. The ice cream offers a woody and wild flavor with balanced sweetness, and you can enjoy it in summer.
- Cotton Candy Ice Cream
The cotton candy flavor has become highly popular in ice cream and the cotton candy itself. People love this candy-like flavor, which also comes with a turquoise blue color that might remind you of Breaking Bad. The creamy, slow-churned ice cream comes with an infused flavor that can be made with 5 easy ingredients. This ice cream offers the perfect escape on hot summer days.
- Mint White Chocolate Cookie Crumble Ice Cream
The mint white chocolate cookie crumble ice cream is not for everyone, as it comes with an acquired taste. A lot of people do not prefer the minty flavor in their dessert, and if you are one of them, this is not for you. But if you are already familiar with mint chocolate and would love an ice cream with similar flavors, this is the one that you need. The cookie crumble helps to add more taste and texture to it, which makes it even more delightful.
- Choco Coconut Mocha Ice Cream
Cocoa-covered almonds, toasted coconut flakes, and International Delight Iced Coffee Mocha Light make this Choco Coconut Mocha Ice Cream the perfect afternoon pick-me-up that reminds you of one of your favorite candy bars! In order to make this recipe, you will need the following ingredients: heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, cocoa-covered almonds, roasted coconut flakes, and last but not least, International Delight Iced Coffee Mocha Lite, which will be the base for the ice cream. It is easy to make and offers a beautiful, exotic flavor.
- Salted Caramel Ice Cream with Chocolate Dipped Peanuts
This is a more elevated version of the caramel ice cream that is rich, heavy, and flavorful, and you will be mesmerized with every spoonful. The salty caramel essence perfectly balances the sweetness of vanilla ice cream and chocolate chips, and makes it taste whole. The ice cream can be made with the help of some simple ingredients at home, and you can easily make it. This healthy ice cream is also filled with a lot of nutrients and energy, which makes it perfect for a hot and draining summer day.
- Homemade Birthday Cake Ice Cream
Birthday cakes are the special ingredient of a birthday, and they are specially made for the person born on that day. What if there were an ice cream variant to it? People who have birthdays in summer can easily try this homemade birthday cake ice cream that is tasty and refreshing. It is a super creamy celebratory dessert or frozen treat that can make the birthday person happy, whether a kid or an adult. The ice cream is full of vanilla cake bits and colorful sprinkles, which offer the perfect vibe for the birthday party. Kids will dig on this!
- Cold Stone Sweet Cream Ice Cream
This is a summer staple recipe that is popular from the older times. In order to make this delicious ice cream, you will need granulated sugar, heavy cream, cornstarch, half and half, and corn syrup. Whisk the ingredients all together and heat it in the oven to create a smooth consistency and texture. Now, cool it down and freeze it in an ice cream machine until it gets the frozen creamy texture. This is a highly alluring ice cream that can blow your mind with every spoonful you consume of it.
- Homemade Pistachio Ice Cream
Those who love pistachios can make their own pistachio ice cream at home with fresh ingredients. In order to make this beautiful light green ice cream, you will need 15% heavy cream, whipping cream, vanilla extract, sugar, pistachio Jell-O pudding, as well as crushed pistachios. It is quite a delightful ice cream that comes with a nutty flavor and a little bit of saltiness, but that perfectly goes with the sweet ingredients. We love this ice cream, and we’re sure that you will love it too.
- Cherry Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate
It is time to fulfill your dark fantasies with some dark chocolate, but since dark chocolate is quite bitter, we will add some sweet cherries to it. This summer, churn up a batch of our homemade fresh Cherry Ice Cream with dark chocolate! Made with a full two cups of fresh cherries and a little brandy! As a result, this ice cream is not just tasty, but it can also offer you a little bit of intoxication in a tasteful manner. You will definitely not get drunk, but you can get addicted to the rich taste of this ice cream.
- Blackberry Ice Cream with Choco Chip
This blackberry ice cream can be easily made without the need to churn it. This ice cream is also not made with condensed milk, and so, this could be the healthiest choice on the list. You can make a small batch of this delicious and healthy ice cream that comes with a fruity flavor and is complemented with chocolate chips. This no-churn ice cream is quite engaging, and it also comes with a unique color and flavor.
- Homemade Biscoff Ice Cream
Biscoff is one of the most popular cookies in the whole world, and in modern days, people are also making ice cream sandwiches with the help of Biscoff. You can also use it to make a homemade cookie ice cream that gives off the taste of Biscoff. It comes with a baked aroma, and the texture feels quite good in the mouth with its softness and crunchiness. This is made with vanilla base ice cream to make sure it does not overwhelm the cookies.
- Homemade Bubble Gum Ice Cream
If you are looking forward to making some fun and easy homemade ice creams for the kids, this homemade bubble gum ice cream recipe can come in handy. This ice cream comes with an attractive pink color and the candy-like flavor of the gum. This vibrant ice cream is also infused with bonus bubble gum pieces mixed into it, which offers kids two types of treats at once. Not just kids but even adults love it!
- Dulce de Leche Ice Cream
This is one of the easiest ice creams to make at home that can be created with the help of three ingredients only. The ingredients are, namely, heavy whipping cream, Dulce de Leche, and vanilla extract. If you’re having trouble finding dulce de leche at the store, it should be in the baking aisle or near the coffee and teas. It’s typically sold in cans alongside sweetened condensed milk and evaporated milk. This ice cream offers a unique taste.
- Bailey’s Irish Ice Cream Recipe
Ice creams can be fun and alcoholic too when you know the right ingredients to infuse. Decadent Baileys ice cream is the perfect way to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day or any special occasion. It’s a boozy, decadent treat studded with chocolate chips that any Irish cream lover will enjoy. Mildly intoxicating and highly delicious, this boozy ice cream is strictly for the adults.
- Sea Salt and Honey Ice Cream
If you’re a fan of salted caramel, I’m willing to bet you’ll love this one, too. Pure luxurious creaminess, honey’s slightly floral nuances, and flecks of briny sea salt come together and form this masterpiece of ice cream. This is a unique flavor that is inspired by exotic flavors. To make it, you will need heavy whipping cream, sweetened condensed milk, honey, and a little bit of Fleur de sel sea salt. That’s all you need to create this gourmet ice cream.
- Circus Animal Cookie Ice Cream
This ice cream is specially recommended for the kids as they love all the vibrant colored ice creams. In order to make this, you will need Frosted Circus Animal Cookies, Sprinkles, Whole Milk, Whipping Cream, Sugar, Vanilla, and Half and Half, which is a combination of whole milk and whipping cream. Put them all together in the ice cream maker, and you will get what you want!
- Cookie Monster Ice Cream
This no-churn ice cream recipe is truly mind-blowing, and it comes with a bright blue color. Make sure to get Heavy Whipping Cream, Sweetened Condensed Milk, Vanilla Extract, Chocolate Sandwich Cookies, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and lastly, Blue Food Coloring. Vibrant and delicious, this ice cream can easily win the hearts of every individual, whether a kid or an older person.
- Homemade Unicorn Ice Cream
I mean, who does not want to be a unicorn? The taste of this fictional creature can be found through this easy homemade recipe for ice cream. This no-churn rainbow ice cream is quite easy to make and perfect for a unicorn-themed party. While most of the ingredients remain the same as other ones, what makes it attractive are Pink, Orange, Yellow, and Blue food coloring, which embrace the unicorn essence.
