This Cake Batter Ice Cream is packed with sprinkles and Golden Oreos. It’s rich, creamy, and fluffy, but it’s made without an ice cream maker!
Easy Cake Batter Ice Cream Recipe
I’m not usually a big ice cream eater. It’s fine, but I usually prefer cookies or bars for my empty calories. Until I made this. It’s the best ice cream I’ve ever had.
I made it for my husband because unlike me, he is a ridiculously huge ice cream lover. It’s his thing. He loves, loves, loves ice cream. We don’t tend to keep it in the house (his request) because he can’t trust himself around it.
However, he goes to the 24-hour Rite-Aid at 3am on ice cream runs at least four times a week. They have an in-store ice cream counter and he’s best friends with the graveyard shift employees. So I decided to give him an early Father’s Day present in the form of pink sprinkles and creamy, homemade ice cream. I just didn’t think I’d be the one falling in love with it.
It’s full of chopped Golden Oreos, sprinkles, and tastes like Funfetti Cake Batter. No cake mix involved. The flavoring secrets are a bit of almond extract, in conjunction with vanilla extract.
This is a no-cook recipe. It’s a major time saver to avoid standing around whisking eggs, cream, and sugar together, then having to wait for them to cool. The solution? A can of sweetened condensed milk. There are only two required ingredients to make it. Sweetened condensed milk and heavy cream.
Nor do you need an ice cream maker. I just recently got this Breville Smart Scoop Ice Cream Compressor from Sur La Table, but prior to that didn’t have one, and many of you may not have one either. This recipe can be made in an ice cream maker if you have one (details in the recipe card below), but it’s not necessary.
This ice cream is soft, fluffy, and light. Light in texture, not in calories. Between the sweetened condensed milk, heavy cream, half a bottle of sprinkles, and two dozen Oreos, it’s not exactly diet food. But so worth it.
The flavor resembles sweetened, frozen whipped cream. This is not a bad thing! If you like buttercream frosting, real whipped cream or Cool Whip, or sweetened condensed milk, this is the ice cream for you. Since I love all those things, it’s definitely the ice cream for me.
It’s ridiculously creamy and rich. It’s like no ice cream I’ve ever tried. Maybe that’s why I love it. There’s an abundance of cookies and sprinkles in every bite. The sprinkles stay a bit crunchy while the cookies soften just slightly after being soaked in the rich, luscious, cream bath.
Although I used almond and vanilla extract, Golden Oreos, and sprinkles, my wheels are already turning with ideas of chocolate, peanut butter, Nutella, Cookie Butter, and cookie dough.
Cake Batter Ice Cream Ingredients
For this Golden Oreo ice cream, you’ll need:
- Golden Oreos or vanilla-flavored sandwich cookies
- Sweetened condensed milk
- Vanilla extract
- Almond extract
- Heavy whipping cream
- Sprinkles
How to Make No-Churn Ice Cream
To make the cake batter ice cream, simply whip the heavy cream to stiff peaks. Then, fold in a mixture of sweetened condensed milk, along with the almond and vanilla extracts.
Note that fold means be gentle. Don’t stir like you’re mashing potatoes. Take your time so that you don’t deflate the puffiness. If you have an ice cream maker, the machine does this folding step for you.
Gently stir in cookies, sprinkles, and freeze it for at least 6 hours. I dare you not to lick the bowl!
Tips for the Best No-Churn Ice Cream
Normally real vanilla extract is the way to go when making homemade ice cream, but to create that classic, nostalgic, bakery-style cake batter taste, use clear imitation vanilla extract for this recipe. Clear imitation is found next to real vanilla in the grocery store, usually for about one-third of the price. Trust me, it really does make a difference in the flavor of this cake batter ice cream!
When buying the ingredients for this ice cream, double check that you’re getting sweetened condensed milk and not evaporated milk. They’re two totally different milk products! I just wanted to mention that since I’ve accidentally purchased one instead of the other countless times.
Lastly, the ice cream freezes solid, but after 5 minutes at room temperature it’s easily scoopable. It’s similar to storebought ice cream and doesn’t turn ridiculously rock hard, an issue that can plague homemade ice cream.
More Frozen Treats:
- Chocolate Cake Batter Milkshake — Drinking a whole chocolate cake batter milkshake sure beats the one or two measly licks of the batter that’s on the beaters after making a chocolate cake. This fast, easy, and very satisfying milkshake is perfect for anyone who loves cake batter and always wants one more taste!
- No-Churn Bourbon Salted Caramel Ice Cream — It’s ridiculously creamy and subtly flavored with bourbon, and ribbons of salted caramel are woven throughout. The crunchy Nutter Butter cookies add a pop of peanut butter flavor and lots of texture, while the chocolate chunks round out this rich, indulgent treat.
- Cookies and Cream Mocha Milkshake — Between the little bits of cookies which add texture, the mocha undertones, and the sweet creamy ice cream, my family went nuts for these milkshakes.
- Brownie Cookie Dough Ice Cream Sandwiches — Cookie dough ice cream is flanked between two rich and fudgy brownies, creating an enhanced and more decadent version of a classic ice cream sandwich.
- Copycat Wendy’s Frosty — This Copycat Wendy’s Frosty Recipe is low-fat and so easy to whip up! It tastes like a lighter chocolate milkshake, but it’s still super creamy and delicious.
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No-Churn Cake Batter Ice Cream with Golden Oreos
Ingredients
- 24 Golden Oreos or vanilla-flavored sandwich cookies, coarsely chopped
- one 14-ounce can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream*
- ¾ cup sprinkles
Instructions
To Make No-Churn Ice Cream:
- Chop the cookies; set aside.
- In a large bowl, add sweetened condensed milk, vanilla, almond extract, and stir to combine; set aside.
- To the bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the whisk attachment (or large mixing bowl and hand mixer; or lots of elbow grease doing it by hand), whip 2 cups heavy cream to very stiff peaks, about 5 minutes on high power.
- Gently add about half the whipped cream to the sweetened condensed milk mixture, and fold the cream in gently. Fold means turn the mixture over with a spatula from the bottom of the bowl up, rotate the bowl, repeat until the mixture is homogenous. The goal is to keep all that fluffy cream you just made as fluffy as possible. Take your time and be gentle. When you get the first half of the cream folded in and combined, add the remaining cream, and fold it until until mixture is smooth.
- Add the cookies, sprinkles, and gently fold them in to distribute evenly.
- Transfer ice cream mixture to a freezer-safe 2-quart container with a lid or freezer-safe bowl that can be covered with plasticwrap. Cover and freeze for at least 6 hours, or until solid. Ice cream takes about 5 minutes to come up to room temperature to scoop it out without having to wrestle with a rock. Ice cream will keep airtight in the freezer for up to 3 months.
If Using an Ice Cream Maker:
- If you are using an ice cream maker, steps 1, 2, 3 are the same. Skip steps 4 and 5. Instead, add 4 cups heavy cream to the sweetened condensed milk mixture, and stir to combine. Step 6 is the same. For step 7, follow processing directions on your ice cream maker, noting to chill the mixture if necessary before churning.
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
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This is hands down the best ice cream on the planet! I LOVE this stuff! The only problem is not being able to stop eating it.. I will be making this for my birthday until the end! Thank you for such deliciousness.
Thanks for the 5 star review, Catherine, and I am so glad to hear that it’s the best ice cream on the planet for you and that you love it!
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I’ve made your Funfetti cake batter ice cream twice now and both times it was delicious! The only thing I did different was added 2 cups of half and half to the mixture. I used an ice cream maker to make mine. YUMMY!
I’ve made your Funfetti cake batter ice cream twice now and both times it was delicious! The only thing I did different was added 2 cups of half and half to the mixture. I used an ice cream maker to make mine. YUMMY!
Glad to hear you’ve made this twice and it’s been delicious! Great to hear you are able to use your ice cream maker, too!
Sounds. Sooo Yummy! I can’t wait to make it this weekend. Gotta make a imitation vanilla run..along with sprinkles cookies etc…☺️😉👍🏼😋
Sounds. Sooo Yummy! I can’t wait to make it this weekend. Gotta make a imitation vanilla run..along with sprinkles cookies etc…☺️😉👍🏼😋
I use real vanilla extract not initiation just FYI. Hope you love the ice cream!
My hubby is a huge Oreo funfetti fan but he’s very lactose intolerant :/ I wanted to make this for his birthday which is actually on Christmas so it stands out from all the pumpkin and pecan desserts, and I was wondering if you think this could be made with coconut cream instead of the heavy cream (because you can’t buy heavy cream lactose free) and coconut condensed milk? I’m sure t would still taste great, I’m just worried about how it will freeze…Thank you!
I am worried as you said also, about how it will freeze. I feel like there is something in the dairy/lactose/milk proteins that is going to be necessary for it to set up fully and freeze properly but I bet if you googled recipes for coconut milk ice cream and sort of cross referenced those with what I did with the flavors, you can come up with something similar to mine.
Thank you so much!!!! :D
Hello Mrs. Averie!!
I’m a 14 year old girl and an absolute HUGE fan of all your recipes!!! I can’t wait to try this out, but I have a few questions:
1. Would it be alright to make this without the vanilla and almond extract? I’m currently out and my dad can’t wait for me to make this, so would it be alright if I omitted them? Would the absence of it greatly affect the taste?
2. Is it ok to use the just the ordinary (dark/black) oreos instead of the golden ones?
Thank you so much for the amazing recipes!!!
1. Yes, fine to omit.
2. Yes, but they will turn the ice cream ‘black’ looking from their dust and crumbs. Sort of like this milkshake https://www.averiecooks.com/2014/07/lightened-up-cookies-and-cream-mocha-milkshake.html and the also have a different taste, but as long as you know that going in, fine.
Enjoy!
This lookes sooo amazing I decided to try making double receipe for my Grandaughters 19th birthday, and since my ive cream maker was out of commision it was perfect. It turned out that using 48 cookies made it so sweet we couldn’t eat it. Any ideas on how to tone it down a bit and save all those yummy ingredients? or is it destined for the garbage. (hope not) Thank you for all your great ideas!
I’ve never doubled it but yes, it IS sweet ice cream, but maybe doubling the cookies was just a little much. You could always mix a half scoop of this in with your normal vanilla ice cream, and eat as a combo and that will tone this down a bit for you. Or a sprinkle of salt sometimes can counteract sweetness.
Beautiful photography! This ice cream recipe looks so fun and bright! We had to include it in our Feature Friday post for Ice Cream Recipes today! Would love for you to check it out! https://returntothetable.net/recipes/15-ice-cream-recipes/
Made this yesterday it is by far the most amazing ice cream I have ever had!!! I can’t believe how fast and easy it was to make either! Thank you Thank you Thank you for this awesome recipe!!!
Thanks for trying it & I agree with you that it’s pretty much the most amazing ice cream I’ve ever had and I’m not even ‘that’ into ice cream. Glad you’re a big fan!
I just saw this on pinterest, and although I don’t have golden oreos, I’m just going to make it with sprinkles. This pregnant lady will be very happy in 6 hours :)
It’s *so good*!!! Enjoy! Do you have any random Xmas cookies laying around? Chop those up and toss them in. Anything you have from graham crackers to old cookies to random candy bar bits leftover from Halloween…just throw it all in. It can’t hurt, can only help :) LMK what you think!
It is sooo good!!! I have to make sure to limit myself :) I ended up just doing sprinkles and I still loved it…just thinking of how I could add peppermint instead of vanilla/almond and maybe try that too! It’s so easy that any mix in would be fabulous!!! Thanks so much! None of your recipes have disappointed yet!
So glad you like it, even with just sprinkles! Try it with cookies sometime – you will be in heaven! Omg SUCH a huge difference! The texture, flavors, oh You HAVE to! :) And yes to peppermint this time of year, especially!
Just entered for your awesome giveaway with the cute little food processors (perfect for my tiny college apartment!!) & definitely making this for my not only ice cream obsessed but CAKE BATTER ice cream obsessed boyfriend! Can’t wait to get off work and get all of the ingredients! Love that you don’t need an ice cream maker! Definitely on my wish list but not on a college budget! :)
LMK what you think of this ice cream! We LOVE it! :)
Wow it looks divine!!! I’m tempted to sneak out to the store now and get the ingredients!!
DO IT! :)