Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

This cookies and cream ice cream is the easiest ice cream ever. Only 3-ingredients needed for the creamiest dreamiest ice cream of your dreams.

This ice cream is really a dream come true. It’s super easy; you can make it with an ice cream machine or without, it’s only 3-ingredients, and it’s wonderfully creamy and insanely delicious too!

What’s not to love?

And if you’re a fan of insanely easy desserts, then our Greek yogurt cheesecake (also only 3-ingredients, seriously!) will be right up your street as well.

How To Make It

Full instructions and measurements can always be found in the recipe card at the bottom of the post. This is a summary of the process to go along with the process photos.

• Step 1: Whip the cream.
• Step 2: Fold in sweetened condensed milk.
• Step 3: Churn in your ice cream maker until it reaches a soft serve consistency and then add oreo cookie pieces.
• Step 4: Smooth down into a loaf pan, add some more oreo cookie pieces to the top and freeze.
• And that’s it!

How To Make It Without An Ice Cream Machine

If you don’t have an ice cream machine that is NOT a problem at all for this recipe.

We tested this recipe both ways and there was about a very small difference in the end result. We’re talking single digit percentage difference. The churned ice cream was ever so slightly more ‘light and fluffy’ in texture. But the difference is SO small that you would barely notice it.

So if you DO have an ice cream machine, well you might as well use it. But if you don’t – that’s not a problem at all.

The No Churn Method:

• Step 1: Whip the cream.
• Step 2: Fold in the sweetened condensed milk.
• Step 3: Fold in the oreo cookie pieces.
• Step 4: Smooth down into a loaf pan, add more oreo cookie pieces to the top and freeze.
• It’s as easy as that.

Recipe Tips

Heavy cream or whipping cream: Either of these options will work fine. You just need to whip it up the way you would for any whipped cream, so you need a cream that has enough of a fat content to be able to do that.

Sweetened condensed milk: This is the entirety of the sweetness for this ice cream, so don’t make any substitutions here.

Oreo cookies: You can use oreo cookies or another chocolate sandwich cookie.

Break up the cookies into pieces: The cookie pieces need to be pieces, not crumbs, so you do this by hand rather than in a food processor. If the cookies are crumbled then it will tend to turn your whole ice cream a gray color, so you want to break the cookies into pieces, not crumbles.

Storage: Okay so this is ice cream of course, which lives in the freezer, so of course it lasts a good couple of weeks.

But the only reason we say a few weeks and not a few months, is that the longer it’s in the freezer the more chance there is of ice crystals developing, which messes with your texture.

This is homemade ice cream of course, so it doesn’t have any of the stabilizers that a store-bought ice cream may have. So ideally you want to enjoy the ice cream over a couple of weeks.

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3. No-Bake Chocolate Tart
4. Peanut Butter Fudge
5. Apple Crisp
6. Fudgy Brownies