I have this nasty little habit that shouldn’t bother you in the least… unless of course you’re one of the unlucky people in the world that might have to share a pint of ice cream with me.
See… I’m a picker. I will shamelessly pick out every good morsel of ice cream chunky goodness from a pint, leaving only half melted ice cream for you. Cookie Dough Ice Cream is only Cookie Dough Ice Cream until I get my paws on it for five minutes. After a cool five minutes, that pint is just a sad excuse for vanilla ice cream. Don’t even get me started of Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream. I’ve got enough skills to dig out every ounce of peanut butter in seconds flat.
It’s a shameless habit. It’s terrible and selfish… and it’ll never change. I can’t help myself.
Cookie No-Dough Ice Cream may have just solved my ice cream picking issue. Instead of having vanilla ice cream with chunks of cookie dough embedded within it, this ice cream… the entire ice cream is the flavor of cookie dough! Holy heck balls! That’s amazing. Yea.. it is.
This ice cream is thickened with egg yolks. Some ice creams are thickened with cornstarch. I think egg yolks are the way to go, creating a super luscious and velvety ice cream. The thing with thickening custards with egg yolks is that they’re very easily over cooked. I do it all the time. I did it with this batch of ice cream.
There’s a point after you’ve tempered the egg yolks, when you’re reheating the whole custard, stirring constantly, and you’ll test the concoction to see if it coats the back of a spoon. Coat the back of the spoon with custard. Run a finger down the center of the custard, and if a line remains separating the two custard halves, then your custard is thick enough. 170 degrees F is you have a nifty thermometer.
Now… if you overcook the custard, it’ll look a little grainy. Why? Because the egg yolks cooked. Yikes! Not to worry. All is not lost. Simply run the custard through a fine mesh strainer before cooling and freezing. Run it through a strainer twice if you have to. No shame in that. Keep on trucking!
Ooooh… and this is the ice cream maker I use. I kinda love it.
Cookie No Dough Ice Cream
recipe from Claire at The Kitchy Kitchen (how cute is she!?) ((seriously!!!?)
Emma
When do you add the vanilla?
joythebaker
Hi Emma, the vanilla goes in right before the mixture goes into the machine, when you add that 1 1/2 cups milk!
Erin
Is it just me or the directions don’t say when to add the vanilla? I added it to the egg mixture. p.s. Love your site and your book!
cally!
i.. am.. drooling. but i have no ice cream maker? what to do! help?!
Charity
I made this last weekend and am disappointed with the results. Just tastes like browned butter and cream. Did not taste like Cookie (No) Dough to my husband or myself. But the instructions were easy to follow as they always are with Joy. We just did not like the taste…think I am going to throw it out unfortunately. But will be making more of your recipes Joy!
Jill
We made this tonight- we have dairy goats and chickens so I used raw goat milk instead of half and half. And we had lovely farm fresh eggs with bright yellow yolks. :) It was fantastic! Will definitely be making this again- thanks Joy!
joythebaker
that sounds amazing!
Rosie
Hi Joy!!
I just made this, but it turned out quite crystally (is that even a word?!). I followed everything properly…the mixture was quite thin before I put it into the ice cream maker.. Do you think the thicker the custard the smoother the result will be? Tastes lovely though!! :D
Rosie
I have actually just woken up, and instead of eating the usual cereal for breakfast, I decided on eating the majority of this ice cream… gosh, it was super delicious, and I now feel the urge to go to the gym for a VERY VERY long time….
Lauren
Is it possible to make this if you don’t have an ice cream maker?
Kathy
I love Joy’s recipes, but I tried this one last weekend and it did not work for me. The only thing I did differently from the recipe was that I strained the mixture before churning (a trick David Lebovitz recommends when you use eggs in ice cream). I even used the Valrhona chocolate. The ice cream had very little flavor to me or my husband. The mixture tasted much fuller and richer before adding in the 1 1/2 cups whole milk before churning. I’m probably going to throw out what I have left (about half).
Julie Anne Rhodes
Are you sure you are not my long lost daughter I didn’t know I had? You might have inherited that dough picking trait from me. Maybe babies got mixed up at the hospital? My daughter HATES when I do that.
Missypants
I actually just remembered eating something like this in New Hope, Pennsylvania many years ago at a place called Mona Lisi’s I think. It was my favorite ever. Because I am extra gluttonous I think I will add cookie dough chunks as well!!!
Missypants
Enjoy? Um…yes……I am making some tonight!
Tess
Can I just say… I love you! Because you created this. I’m not big on cookie dough in ice cream, but I love cookies, esp. chocolate chip. And I absolutely LOVE ice cream!!! And because you created this… this cookie-no-dough-ice-cream, i love you.
Thank you.
=)
Tess
katy
i just got a cuisinart ice cream maker the other day on sale, and only just used it for the very first time to make a test batch of frozen yogurt. (i’d never ever used an ice cream maker before tonight.) now i cannot wait to make this recipe! thank you for sharing ^_^
p.s. found it through foogawker, gotta love that site!
Sue
Just made the No Dough Cookie Dough ice cream recipe tonight, but didn’t have dark brown sugar, only light brown. Also used chocolate chips, not chopped (but 60% cocoa Guiradelli). Tasted a little bland,–more like nice vanilla ice cream…maybe it’s the brown sugar substitution or lack of chocolate bits throughout. What do you think Joy?
ps I love your website. Became a fan after making the blueberry sour cream ice cream which was out of this world delicious!!!
Julie
I’m totally a picker too – much to my husband’s dismay – especially when its Ben & Jerry’s strawberry cheesecake – I pick out all the graham cracker swirl. I can’t wait to try this – looks delish!
Bethany
Where do you get all of your cute dishes Joy? I love them!
JoJo
I pick through the ice cream as well! terrible habit. It is always a race in my house to see who gets to the pint in the freezer first and picks through it….. especially when I pick up ben and jerry’s from the store…. overall BEST chunks!
Sarah
I’m trying this tonight! I think it’s the perfect compromise for my husband and I. He loves cookie dough ice cream, and I actually dislike the little hard round pellets of dough. I think an ice cream flavored like it should be perfect! Let you know how it turns out!
tia
i love mine too – same cuisinart.
thx, will try this recipe soon
Jamie
OK, funny story: my 19 year old son just spent 2 weeks at sailing school. He called me one day all excited. They were in a port town and went for ice cream and he ordered Cookie Dough Ice Cream. Not chunks of cookie dough, but the ice cream flavored like cookie dough. It was like an epiphany to him and he was so excited that he had to call home and tell me.
So thank heavens for food bloggers like you! Just printed out the recipe to make for him (I know, I’ll end up eating it, too) as a surprise. Thanks! Although I only have a hand-crank maker…
Felicity
Love til recipe! Am even doing it right now. ;) Just have a small question… I misread the 170 degrees… Took it for celsius not farenheit… so the custard boiled. :S there are no little grains and it is thick. with a lot of bubbles. Is it usable, or should I just scrap it and do it over?
Rebecca
Wow! As a picker as well, this ice cream is perfect for me. It’s so sad when you get out a container of ice cream and realize it’s no longer filled with chunks of sweet add ins and rather just plain ice cream. I’m definitely making this ice cream next!
Naomi
Thanks for this recipe. Combine with your link to the double choc peanut butter icecream, you’ve presented my absolute favourite frozen dessert combination. Whipped them both up over the last few days. Enjoying your blog and creations.
tara
This just blows my everlovin’ mind. Brilliant.
Sue
Loving the ice cream is a given —– but those cute little dishes you served it in —— mmmmm. Where did you get those?
Jennifer
My dear husband is a picker! I love this recipe!! Oh my goodness!! thanks so much :D
Jelli Bean
The only thing better than this ice cream is adding cookies to it. I’m thinking of crunching up some of my latest creation, orange ginger chip cookies and putting them on top as the garnish. Yum!
Kelly
I love ice cream! And, I love that flowery plate of yours as well!
CookiePie
Looks fabulous!!! We “pickers” need a support group. Hi, my name is CookiePie, and I pick the fruit/cookie bits/fudge swirl out of any pint of ice cream…
Halimah
This is amazing…looks yummy!
I’ve just nominated you with a “Kreativ Award” please check it out at my blog…thank you! :)
Sara
I will certainly make this in the near future. The very first ice cream recipe that I made was your Chocolate Peanut Butter Ice Cream recipe. My husband, and many of his friends, enjoyed it thouroughly. Thanks for this!
Tammy
I’m putting this on this week’s list of things to make, even though I’ve already grocery shopped for this week’s list. Cookie No-Dough looks worth every bit of trouble it will take to go grocery shopping again. Thanks for sharing an amazing recipe, as always!
Andrea [bella aeats]
Joy! You’re brilliant! I just borrowed an ice cream maker from a friend, and this may be the very first recipe I try!
Julia @ Mélanger
Sounds fabulous. I like to swirl my spoon around the outside of the ice-cream to capture the creamy yum yum as it’s melting. I don’t discriminate within the ice-cream though. Happy to eat it all equally!! ;)
When Pigs Fly
Ooh, yum!!! I love the chunky bits as well in my ice cream. I just never seem to have the patience to make my own ice cream. You have started inspiring me to bake again. Your site is so much fun.
airincupcakery
i have been wanting to make ice cream for months now – even have the ice cream maker machine instructions in my bag everyday hoping to figure out how to use it *duh*
this looks really good and very, very inspiring!
Sheila
Yep, love the chunks! Thanks for this post. Our family made homemade ice cream with ziploc baggies on July 4th and we decided to make it an annual event. I think I may have to invest in an ice cream maker though next time. Cold hands and salt everywhere!
Cyn
i mean *reward :)
Cyn
I’m gonna award myself with this fabulous ice cream! :)
My First Kitchen
This will almost certainly change lives. I’m thinking awards will start pouring in pretty soon.
Tom
You know its bad when Dairy Queen calls your house to see if your alright?
EB
Holy Heck Balls Yeah I’m Eating That Right Out of The Mixer!!!!
Sagan
*wipes drool from face* wow. Just wow.
Hannah
I do the same thing! This looks so good, I’m going to have to try it!
Claire
Thanks so much for the post! I’m glad the ice cream was a success. It’s one of my favorites and is awesome in a root beer float. I adore your website and the lovely photos, I’ll definitely be checking in on your site often. :)
Frieda
I learned to pick at a very early age. My kids affectionally call me the “pea picker” as I do not like peas! Thanks for a great post and recipe…I’m on an ice cream roll this summer…
Victoria
Oh. My. Very. God.
I might just cry, this sounds so good. Cookie dough is my favourite (and I’m a picker). I’m with Katrina, I could totally have chunks of cookie dough in this as well. Cookie cookie cookie!
Flapper Food
I have the same ice cream maker! Yippee! :)
And that choc. peanut butter ice cream madness??? Oh….mah…..gawd….
Katelyn
I got that same ice cream maker for my wedding and I’ve used it twice, both to bad results – bad meaning, the ice cream was still very liquid-y when it finished churning the prescribed amount of time and when I stuck it into the freezer, it froze into a solid mass more like ice than ice cream. I’m not sure if my problem is a) the recipe (I used one from the included booklet) or b) I need to ignore the directions and churn until it looks more like soft-serve. Anyone have any advice? I’d love to try ice cream again, but I can’t bear to waste any more delicious dairy product in the trying…
dani
wow! i am sure u just found a cure for something… i am not sure what, but i am sure that heals something :)
Salima
Thanks Joy, that sorted out my ice-cream dilemma – though your cornstarch one isn’t the recipe I was thinking of in my e-mail. That had cream cheese in it, if i remember. Didn’t bother bookmarking it because i didn’t have an ice-cream maker then! still this recipe looks yummy so maybe i’ll start with that instead
Michelle
I’ve had my eye on her recipe too… bookmarked and everything. Now that I’ve finally forgotten about it, you go and make it and now visions of cookie dough are swirling in my head again. : ) Thanks a bunch! LOL
Looks wonderful and gives me another reason to need a new ice cream maker!
Heather @ chiknpastry
oh yum. Definitely adding this to my ice cream list. although i will admit i’d be sad to not be able to pick through my ice cream for those hunks o’ dough!! I made a creme fraiche ice cream this weekend that was delightful. I think i’m gonna finish it tonight and then move on to this one :)
cori
How is this even possible? Can I bathe in it? Because I know I’ll be tempted to. I keep my 2 frozen ice cream maker containers in the freezer all summer, sometimes I use them to quickly cool and not water down iced tea, but for real reals, I must make this. It just might revolutionize… I don’t know… the whole WOLRD!
stephchows
You sound like me and my fiance… we BOTH are ice cream pickers LOL this would totally solve the problem! you rock!
Ariella
I recently discovered at my local Ben and Jerry’s store that they started selling the things that they put in the icecream that people pick out! (For example, I bought a bag of little dark chocolate peace signs). They’re amazing, and there’s no picking necessary. =].
Noreen
Haha!! I do that too!! Except I don’t know when to stop which means I end up eating a lot (seriously!!) more ice cream than any human should!! ooh, I don’t have an ice cream maker – which may be a really good thing!!
Mary
I pick out the good pieces and save them until I’m done with the ice cream! :) And I just got that ice cream maker and I’m having the best time with it!
Shelly (cookies and cups)
This is perfect for me! I am EXACTLY the same way with ice cream…pick out all the yummies!
Amelia
Wow. This looks so good!!!
The other day you asked for inspiration… may I suggest ‘zebra cake’? I havn’t gotten around to making it yet- but it looks amazing. I found it on this blog http://www.azcookbook.com/zebra-cake/
I was hoping you could make it- offer your suggestions for any improvements, and then I can copy you :) Cheeky!!!
Libby
Yummmm!!! I love cookie dough….especially in icecream! I will have to try this recipe soon :)
Stephanie
Ooooh, you kill me with this, I love cookie ice cream. And I don’t have an ice cream maker! That’s so meeeean! .. If I ever buy one, this will be the first recipe I’ll make! (By the way, I’m not a picker and not the opposite, I always try to pick out the cookie pieces _with_ a lot of ice cream so that I never have to eat the ice cream without the cookies.)
Indigo
I have the biggest talent at picking out chunks of cookie, but I don’t know if I dare make this… I’d have nothing to pick out and would have to eat the entire thing. You know, I’d HAVE to.
Incidentally, you’re a genius and I kind of love you.
Mélanie
ohh, i want to make this. But I don’t have an ice-cream maker. Do you think I can make it and juste stir it every 20 minutes while in the freezer?
Lucy
Oh gosh. This ice-cream looks AMAZING! I am a shameless picker – in Ben & Jerrys Phish Food I have to pick out all the little choco fish, and in Hokey Pokey ice-cream all the honeycomb comes out :D
Siobhán
I’m very particular about how I eat my food but I think I am the opposite of a picker! I eat around all the little chunks and bits and save them for last! It might not be a good idea for us to share a tub of ice cream… there could be tears…. :) I love the idea of a Cookie-Dough-Infused ice cream though, that’s great thinking! :D
the Ungourmet
I just found your blog today. Girl, you’ve got talent to spare!
This ice cream looks delightful! :0)
Katrina
Fabulous! Can’t wait to try. Would it be TOO much to add cookie dough to the not-cookie dough ice cream? Ooh. This is a dangerous one for me!
Fallon
haha I love digging for chunks of yummyness in my ice cream!
onceinabluemoon
fabulous pics and my fav ice cream flavor makes you a jackpot in my eyes!
Millie
Oooh, VERY tempting right now. I’m just about out of half and half, though, so I’ll have to run to the store before I could do it. Maybe our ice cream maker will get some use after all. ;)
megan
Wow! Someday when I get that ice cream machine in my life I will make this and eat it for dinner.
Becka
Oh, I am definitely a picker. The stuff is just too good! This ice cream looks amazing, and I plan on trying it…oh, now. I have the same ice cream maker (in red) also!
Amy
*Hand raised* Picker, here. I come from a long time of pickers. My sister and I are the absolute worst. Ice cream with chunks looks like a complete train wreck when we’re done with it. And mixed nuts…well, they end up not being mixed at all. We’ll pick out our favorites and leave you with the undesirables.
maybelles mom
My sister in law is a picker too–I will send this on to her fiance…
VeggieGirl
Haha I’m a picker too – ESPECIALLY with chunky cookie-type ice creams :-D
Betsy
Um, this is amazing. I made my first batch of cookie dough ice cream from the Ben & Jerry’s book last week, but this looks like it has the possibility to trump it.
And I have that ice cream maker too – the red one, love it!