Rich and Creamy Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
If cookie dough was your childhood weakness (or let’s be honest, still is), this homemade chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is about to become your new favorite. It’s rich, creamy, loaded with edible cookie dough, and tastes just like the one my daughter begged for growing up.
Prep Time 1 hour hour 30 minutes minutes
Chill Time 4 hours hours
Total Time 5 hours hours 30 minutes minutes
Servings 16
Calories 324kcal
Cookie Dough
- ½ cup butter softened
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 4 tablespoons milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 ½ cups flour
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
Ice Cream
- 1 cup whole milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- ⅓ cup sugar
- ⅓ cup brown sugar
- 6 egg yolks
Cookie Dough
Bake the flour on a rimmed cookie sheet at 350º for 7 minutes. Allow to cool.
Combine butter and sugars in a stand mixer and mix until light and fluffy. Add milk, vanilla and salt and mix to combine. Add flour and salt and mix until combined, add chocolate chips. Spread the dough into a rimmed baking sheet and freeze. Once hardened, remove and cut into bite sized chunks. Keep frozen until ready to use.
Ice Cream
Add milk, cream, sugars and salt to a saucepan over medium-low heat. Bring to a simmer and remove from the heat.
Whisk the egg yolks together in a large measuring cup or bowl. Gradually add 1 tablespoon of the hot milk mixture to the egg yolks, whisking until combined. Continue slowly adding the warm milk until the egg mixture is warm. Then slowly add the warm eggs to the hot milk, whisking constantly until incorporated.
Return to the heat and cook for about 5 minutes until it is slightly thick and coats the back of a spoon. Pour it through a wire sieve into a bowl. Let it come to room temperature, about 1 hour. Once cooled, refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight.
Process per the manufactures’ directions. It should take about 20 minutes. Stir in the frozen pieces of cookie dough and place into a 9 x 5 x 3 loaf pan and cover with plastic wrap. Freeze until firm.
- This has more flavor if you refrigerate it overnight before processing it.