Homemade pistachio ice cream

Home made Pistachio Ice Cream
This is among the favorites in our household. I believe the Mr. still enjoys his old and true plain vanilla ice cream but he pampers us by making pistachio and it is most decadent and divine!

Ingredients for Pistachio Ice Cream
1 can condensed
1 can evaporated
1 pint heavy whipping cream
2 small pkgs of pistachio pudding
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 TBL spoon vanilla extract
Add WHOLE MILK to ice cream churn to top off to line.

1 large bag of ice
1/2 box of rock salt

Our ice cream churn comes with directions on how to use. But the basic ice cream recipe is as listed as above. It is rich it is decadent and I LOVE it best the day after! It gets very creamy and dense. Good luck having it last the day after.


Our churn then requires you to pour ice around the cannister and put rock salt on top. Keep checking your ice maker and adding ice so that it stays near the top of the cannister and then rock salt again. Repeat as necessary. Until ice maker stops churning. You can immediately turn out and place in storage containers or serve. If you would like your ice cream more firm wait a few minutes and the ice cream will harden as it sits.

Ice Cream Cake

My dash wanted an ice cream cake for his birthday but at $30. I needed to be more frugal in this day. So, I set out to make him an ice cream cake and I will never pay for another cake again!!

This was my first ice cream cake attempted. I will definitely make another and fancy it up to look like one purchased at Baskin and Robins.

INGREDIENTS:
1 cake mix
1 tub of cool whip
1 carton of your favorite ice cream
1 4oz cream cheese and 2 cups confectioners sugar

The most important ingredient when making this cake is TIME! TIME and TIME

Prepare any cake mix,in a cookie sheet or two 9x13 pans.
I used a chocolate cake mix baked in a cookie sheet.

I baked it according to directions on the box. Let it cool and then cut the cake in half.

I bought a half gallon of cookies and cream ice cream, in a carton and let it sit on the counter to soften slightly.

I sliced the ice cream with a knife and layed the ice cream evenly across one layer of the cake. I used the entire carton.

I then placed the other layer of cake on top of the ice cream.

Cover with foil and freeze for 3 hours.
Remove from freezer and if the ice cream has melted down the sides take a serrated knife and cut edges so they are clean and even.

Frost with refrigerated cool whip, you can add food coloring for tint if needed.


Take 2 cups of cool whip and add cream cheese and 1/2 cup confectioners sugar. Put in decorative piping bag and pipe a scallopped edge around cake.

Freeze for an additional 2 hours and cake is ready to EAT!!! YUMMERS!!!

OREO and Fudge ice cream cake

Dash wanted an ice cream cake with oreos. I didn't put the order in time, so I had to resort to the first best mode and that was make it. This is such a simple and really yummy dessert. It is made from ice cream sandwiches. For more great recipes go to oreo.com


1/2 cup hot fudge ice cream topping, warmed
1 tub (8 oz.) COOL WHIP Whipped Topping, thawed, divided
1 pkg. (4-serving size) JELL-O Chocolate Instant Pudding
8 OREO Cookies, chopped (about 1 cup)
12 vanilla ice cream sandwiches, unwrapped


POUR fudge topping into medium bowl. Add 1 cup of the whipped topping; stir with wire whisk until well blended. Add dry pudding mix; stir 2 min. or until well blended. Gently stir in chopped cookies; set aside.
ARRANGE 4 of the ice cream sandwiches, side-by-side, on 24-inch-long piece of foil; top with half of the whipped topping mixture. Repeat layers. Top with remaining 4 ice cream sandwiches. Frost top and sides of dessert with remaining whipped topping. Bring up foil sides. Double fold top and ends to loosely seal packet.
FREEZE at least 4 hours before serving. Store leftover dessert in freezer.

For a visual instruction video please click here.