20 Favorite Ice Cream Recipes to Try

If you’re looking for an excuse to make ice cream, consider this your sign. Whether you’re into classic vanilla, interesting flavors like creamy popcorn, or fun mix-ins that turn every scoop into a treat, these 20 favorite ice cream recipes are worth pulling out the churn.

You’ll find everything from rich custards to fruity swirls and a no-churn recipe, perfect for cooling off or just indulging your sweet tooth any time of year.

Homemade Peaches & Cream Ice Cream

This Peaches & Cream Ice Cream combines delicious fresh and creamy vanilla ice cream to make a delightful peach dessert. You’ll want to make sure you can get super ripe peaches with a lot of flavor and aroma. If your peaches aren’t ripe the flavor of peach will be very subtle.

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Creamy Popcorn Ice Cream

Popcorn Ice Cream is one of the most unique homemade ice cream flavors you’ll probably ever try. It’s incredibly creamy, but with a lightly salty and sweet flavor and that buttered popcorn taste you love to snack on.

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No-Churn Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

This no-churn Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is so creamy and delicious with swirled in caramel and a firm base that is very easy to scoop for ice cream cones or a scoop in bowl. There’s something so simple about a no-churn ice cream that makes it a quick and easy thing to make.

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Homemade Blueberry Ice Cream

This homemade blueberry ice cream is made with fresh blueberries, sugar, and half and half to make a creamy deliciously scoopable homemade ice cream that’s incredibly flavorful.  The fresher the blueberries the better, as they really give a deep color and flavor to the ice cream.

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Easy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This Easy Chocolate Chocolate Chip Ice Cream recipe is one you can make in under 30 minutes in your ice cream maker, with just a handful of ingredients, including all that chocolate!

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The Best Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream (Custard-Style)

This homemade vanilla ice cream uses a custard-style base (with eggs) to make a creamy deliciously scoopable homemade ice cream. This is honestly the only ice cream recipe you will ever need. Start with this base and add just about anything you like to change it up.

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Orange Creamsicle Ice Cream

If you love that blend of vanilla and orange-flavored ice cream, you’re going to flip over this homemade Orange Creamsicle Ice Cream. It uses a custard-style base (with eggs) to make a creamy deliciously scoopable homemade ice cream that’s just as good as in your childhood memories.

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Chardonnay Ice Cream with Tropical Fruit

This homemade Chardonnay Ice Cream With Tropical Fruit uses a custard-style base (with eggs) to make a creamy deliciously scoopable homemade ice cream with an extra boost of flavor.  If you are a wine lover, you have to try it.

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Homemade Pistachio Almond Ice Cream

This Homemade Pistachio Almond Ice Cream uses a custard-style base (with eggs) to make a deliciously creamy scoopable pistachio ice cream. If you love pistachio ice cream from one of the many brands that make it, you’re going to love this homemade version.

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Pear Ice Cream

This delicious Pear Ice Cream combines Bartlett pear puree and candied pears in an easy-to-make vanilla ice cream base that’s super creamy and smooth. It’s a revelation!

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Chocolate Malted Crunch Ice Cream

This Chocolate Malted Crunch Ice Cream is so rich and chocolatey, with a hint of malt flavor, and lots of crunchy bits from the Whoppers candies.

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Homemade Olive Oil Ice Cream

This Homemade Olive Oil Ice Cream is rich and creamy, with hints of the grassy, fruity flavor of olive oil in every bite, making it a unique and impressive dessert. It is a unique and flavorful twist on traditional ice cream that is popular in Mediterranean cuisine.

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Winter White Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream

If you’ve ever had Baskin Robbins Winter White Chocolate Cherry Ice Cream you’re in for a treat because this recipe shows you how to make this elusive holiday treat at home. It’s a deliciously creamy white chocolate cherry ice cream with chunks of chocolate covered cherries.

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Homemade Birthday Cake Ice Cream

This Birthday Cake Ice Cream is made with a simple vanilla base, with chunks of yellow cake and colorful birthday sprinkles mixed in. If you’ve ever felt the joy of digging into a piece of birthday cake, imagine that same delight but in ice cream form. Birthday cake ice cream isn’t just an ice cream flavor; it’s a celebration packed into a scoop.

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Homemade Oreo Cookie Ice Cream

This Oreo Cookie Ice Cream combines your favorite chocolate cookies with creamy vanilla ice cream to make a tasty cookies and cream dessert. You can use any type of Oreo cookie you like (they have a variety of choices these days)!

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Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream is an ice cream lover’s dream, with just the right amount of mint flavor and little bits of chocolate throughout. It’s creamy and delicious. They key to good mint chocolate chip ice cream is to use a very small amount of high-quality mint extract and chop the chocolate bits nice and small so they blend in well.

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Ninja Creami Coffee Ice Cream

This Ninja Creami Coffee Ice Cream is a very tasty, creamy ice cream that is made with just 6 ingredients and it takes just 5 minutes to make in the Ninja Creami. If you have a Ninja Creami, or are thinking about getting one, this coffee ice cream is a great recipe to try.

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Simple Ninja Creami Champagne Sorbet

This amazing Ninja Creami Champagne Sorbet is made in the Ninja Creami Deluxe Ice Cream Maker using just 5 ingredients (Champagne, lemon juice, sugar, corn syrup, and water). This Champagne sorbet is so delicious and refreshing. If you like Champagne, you have to try it!

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Ninja Creami Dole Whip Recipe.

Learn how to recreate the fan-favorite Disney dessert, Dole Whip, right in the comfort of your own home with this Ninja Creami Dole Whip Recipe. This recipe is not only incredibly delicious but is also extremely easy to make.

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Ninja Creami Watermelon Sorbet

This Ninja Creami Watermelon Sorbet is one of the most refreshing summer treats you can make, with just 3 simple ingredients: watermelon, lime juice, and agave syrup. It just takes 3 ingredients and about 2 minutes of your time to make this delicious watermelon sorbet.

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