This homemade Cookie Monster Ice Cream recipe features a blue-hued, creamy vanilla base that’s stuffed with cookie dough and Oreos. It’s a super fun and delicious treat for kids and adults alike!
The Best Cookie Monster Ice Cream Recipe
Cookie Monster Ice Cream, our oldest daughter’s favorite! It’s super fun with its blue-hued, creamy vanilla base, loaded with bites of chopped Oreos and cookie dough!
If there’s one thing that our daughter Hatti inherited from her grandpa by being born on his birthday, it’s his love of sweets. Take those two to an ice cream shop, and they’re in high heaven!
I churned up a homemade ice cream in honor of the special people in our family with birthdays this month. Hatti and my dad share the same day on the calendar, with Blake’s dad’s (who passed away 1 year ago this month) birthday just a couple days before.
Cookie Monster Ice Cream.
We celebrate!
Cookie monster ice cream
My inspiration for making cookie monster ice cream came from this photo of Hatti last summer at Grand Ol’ Creamery. This is one of my favorite photos of our beautiful brown-eyed girl, soon to be 15.
What Is Cookie Monster Ice Cream?!
Hatti was at school the day I was making this cookie monster ice cream. And since I hadn’t eaten this particular ice cream flavor myself, I had questions for her. So I texted…
Me: “Is it blue-tinted ice cream, flavored with vanilla only?”
Hatti: “yes”
Me: “Is it raw chocolate chip cookie dough or baked chocolate chip cookies that are broken up?”
Hatti: “do not bake the cookie dough – and there are Oreos – a lot of cookie dough and Oreos so you get some in every bite”
pause…
Hatti: “we should probably go to Grand Ol Creamery to get a sample though 😏”
And then she came in with a final suggestion.
Hatti: “you should make homemade waffle cones too, like Grand Ol Creamery”
That girl is always working me, always working me…
Hatti was home by the time I was forming the chocolate chip cookie dough chunks, and was all too happy to supervise, making sure I got the size of the dough chunks juuuuuuuust right.
How To Serve
And while I did not follow through with Hatti’s suggestion for homemade waffle cones, I did give some store-bought cones a little dip-and-sprinkles love. I followed my friend Bridget’s advice. And can I just say how fun this project is?!
If you’re looking to add a little more fun to an ice cream party, give this a go. Choices of flavors and colors and sprinkles are endless – perfectly adaptable to any celebration.
We also like to make sundaes with this ice cream. Just add a couple scoops of cookie monster ice cream to a bowl, then top with either hot fudge sauce or homemade magic shell. Or make ice cream sundaes, topping chewy chocolate chip cookie bars with scoops of this ice cream. SO FUN!!
Homemade ice cream is always a treat, but even more so when colored a fun blue hue, speckled with fresh vanilla bean flavor, and stuffed with cookie dough and Oreos. Two scoops, please!
Here are a few more ice cream recipes you might like:
Cookie Monster Ice Cream
Ingredients
for the chocolate chip cookie dough:
- ¼ cup unsalted butter softened
- ¼ cup brown sugar
- ½ cup all-purpose flour
- ¼ teaspoon kosher salt
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- ⅓ cup mini semi-sweet chocolate chips
for the ice cream base:
- 1 cup whole milk
- ¾ cup sugar
- 2 large eggs
- seeds scraped from 1 vanilla bean
- 2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract
- 2 cups heavy cream
- blue food coloring – I use Americolor gel #103 Sky Blue
- 1 cup roughly chopped Double Stuf Oreo cookies
- chocolate chip cookie dough bites
Instructions
- For the chocolate chip cookie dough: Using a stand mixer or hand mixer, cream together butter and sugar.
- Add flour and salt, and mix to combine.
- Mix in vanilla, and then the chocolate chips.
- Pinch off small pieces of dough, aiming for ¼" to ½" pieces. Place dough bites on a parchment paper-lined pan and chill until ice cream base is ready.
- For the ice cream base: In a small saucepan, warm milk to 170° F, stirring occasionally. Do not let milk boil.
- While the milk is warming, whisk sugar, eggs, vanilla bean seeds, and vanilla in a medium bowl.
- Very slowly and gradually drizzle the warmed milk into the egg mixture, whisking continuously to prevent the egg from cooking from the heat.
- Whisk in heavy cream, and then food coloring to your preference. I add a few drops of color, but prefer to keep the blue on the lighter side.
- Chill for an hour in the fridge, or until cool to the touch. You can also chill it overnight if desired, and then make the ice cream the following day.
- Pour chilled cream mixture into prepared ice cream maker and churn according to the manufacturer’s directions. Once the ice cream has reached a soft-serve consistency, add the chopped Oreos and cookie dough bites. Fold in by hand if necessary.
- Transfer ice cream to a freezer-safe container and place in freezer until thoroughly frozen.
Notes
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My nephew will DIE when I show him this. I just about died when I saw it. (from joy). YES!
There is nothing like a good homemade ice cream!!
This is adorable and looks yummy!
This ice cream makes my seven year-old inner chid smile!! Gorgeous!
I am actually obsessing over this ice cream and these photos!! I want to eat this for dinner!!
What a brilliant idea for ice cream! I love this :D
Absolutely love everything about this ice cream! We’ve got an ice creamery near our house I may request this flavour. I’ve never heard of it in the UK, but it would be a HIT!!!!
Homemade ice cream is always a treat. And you are so right about Papa Bill and Hatti sharing their love of
Ice cream. I don’t think of ice cream as being beautiful, but your photo of it certainly is.
Ummm i have to make this!! It looks sooooo good!!