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Your eyes do not deceive you. This really is a recipe for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Bread.
Believe it or not, all you need is two ingredients – ice cream and flour.
And it truly is as delicious as it sounds!
The bread is dense, but perfectly moist and decadent. It has a sweet, indulgent flavor from the richness of the ice cream. And of course, it pairs beautifully with another scoop of ice cream on top.
The sweet geniuses at Ben & Jerry’s shared this intriguing recipe on their website. I knew as soon as I scanned the recipe that I need to make my first ever batch of ice cream bread.
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Ingredients for Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Bread
You don’t even need to write down a shopping list for this recipe. It’s pretty hard to forget ice cream and flour!
The official ingredients from the Ben & Jerry’s recipe are as follows:
- 1 pint Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough icecream
- 1 pint Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie icecream
- 3 cups self-rising flour
You really can’t go wrong if you stick with using the cookie dough and fudge brownie ice creams as shown in the recipe.
The classic flavors are favorites that pretty much everyone likes. The contrasting colors of the light vanilla cookie dough ice cream and the dark chocolate color of the brownie ice cream work well together too.
However, you can definitely change things up and make this recipe with any two of your favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavors. They have a gazillion delicious flavors.
Full Disclosure: I have only made this recipe with regular, full-fat, full-dairy, full-sugar, full-everything Ben & Jerry’s flavors. I do not know if the light, non-dairy or frozen yogurt varieties will work.
If you need some inspiration, check out Ben & Jerry’s top flavors of 2019 in this video or scan the list below of the Best Ben & Jerry’s Flavors for 2020.
Top 10 Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Flavors of 2020
1. Half Baked – Chocolate & Vanilla Ice Creams mixed with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Brownie Batter
2. Cherry Garcia – Cherry Ice Cream with Cherries & Fudge Flakes
3. Chocolate Fudge Brownie – Chocolate Ice Cream with Fudge Brownies. This flavor was #5 on the Top 10 Ben & Jerry’s Flavors for 2019, but jumped up to #3 this year!
4. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough– Vanilla Ice Cream with Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dou
5. The Tonight Dough – Caramel & Chocolate Ice Creams with Chocolate Cookie Swirls & Gobs of Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough & Brownie Batter
6. Phish Food – Chocolate Ice Cream with Gooey Marshmallow Swirls, Caramel Swirls & Fudge Fish
7. Strawberry Cheesecake – Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream with Strawberries & a Thick Graham Cracker Swirl
8. Americone Dream – Vanilla Ice Cream with Fudge-Covered Waffle Pieces & a Caramel Swirl
9. Chunky Monkey – Banana Ice Cream with Fudge Chunks and Walnuts. This flavor fell off the list in 2019, but is back for 2020.
10. Brownie Batter Core – New to the top 10 list this year! Chocolate and Vanilla Ice Cream with Fudge Brownies and a Brownie Batter Core.
How to make Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Bread
Step 1: Prepare your tools and ingredients.
To get started, preheat your oven to 350°F. Also grab your ice cream, flour and a few tools.
You’ll need the following:
- 9” x 5” loaf pan
- Cooking spray
- Two medium sized bowls
- Two mixing spoons
- Ice cream scoop (or two if you don’t want to clean between scoops)
- Wooden skewer or chopstick
- Aluminum foil
Spray the loaf pan with cooking spray and set it aside.
Step 2: Measure the flour
Divide the flour evenly between the two mixing bowls. You should have 1 and 1/2 cups in each bowl.
Step 3: Melt the ice cream
For the next step, the ice cream needs to get totally melted!
I just popped the top off the pints and put them right in the microwave. If you’d prefer, you can also scoop the two flavors of ice cream into separate microwave safe bowls.
I microwaved the pints in 20-30 second intervals, stirring carefully at each interval.
All microwaves are different, so be careful not to actually heat up the ice cream. You just want to get it to a state where it can be poured and easily stirred. Definitely don’t want to cook it.
Step 4: Mix the ingredients.
Next, add one melted pint to one of the bowls with the flour. Then pour the other pint into the other flour bowl. Stir each to combine the ingredients well.
Step 5: Add the batter to the loaf pan and create a checkerboard pattern.
Using anicecream scoop (or two if you don’t want to clean between scoops), scoop the batters into the pan in an alternating checkerboard pattern.
You’ll want four scoops down the length of the pan and two scoops across.
Repeat for the second layer, but alternate the pattern so the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough scoops are on top of the Chocolate Fudge Brownie and vice versa.
Continue until all batter has been scooped into the pan.
Now take a wooden skewer or chopstick and gently run it through the top of the batter, making a swirly pattern. Don’t go too crazy with this step or you may end of with a muddled mess instead of nice swirls!
Step 6: Bake the ice cream bread.
Make an aluminum foil tent over the top of the loaf pan. This will help avoid the top of the bread from getting too brown.
Place the pan in the oven and bake for the first 30-40 minutes with the foil tent on.
Bake another 20 minutes or until a skewer poked into the bread comes out clean. Then carefully remove the pan from the oven.
Step 7: Serve and enjoy!
Allow the bread to cool (at least slightly!) before slicing and enjoying the first piece.
While this bread is delicious on its own, I highly recommend adding another scoop of ice cream right on top. Maybe even drizzle it with chocolate syrup, whipped cream, sprinkles or whatever topping strikes your fancy.
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I hope you enjoy this Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Bread recipe as much as I do. If you give it a try, please leave a comment below and let us know what you think.
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Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream Bread
This sweet and delicious 2-ingredient ice cream bread is fun and easy to make. Experiment with your favorite Ben & Jerry's flavors for endless options!
Prep Time20 minutes
Cook Time50 minutes
Total Time1 hour 10 minutes
Ingredients
- 1 pint Ben & Jerry's Cookie Dough ice cream, melted
- 1 pint Ben & Jerry';s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, melted
- 3 cups self-rising flour, divided in half
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Spray a 9” x 5” loaf pan with cooking spray and set aside.
- Divide the flour evenly between the two mixing bowls. You should have 1 and 1/2 cups in each bowl.
- Remove top from ice cream pints and microwave until melted. Microwave in 20-30 second intervals or until ice cream is totally melted. Be careful not to heat the ice cream. If preferred, the frozen ice creams can also be scooped into microwave safe bowls and melted that way.
- Next, add one melted pint to one of the bowls with the flour. Then pour the other pint into the other flour bowl. Stir each to combine the ingredients well.
- Using an ice cream scoop, scoop the batters into the pan in an alternating checkerboard pattern, four scoops down by two scoops across. Repeat for the second layer, topping he Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough scoops with Chocolate Fudge Brownie and vice versa. Continue until all batter has been scooped into the pan.
- Take a wooden skewer or chopstick and run it through the top of the batter, making a swirly pattern.
- Make an aluminum foil tent over the top of the loaf pan. This will help avoid the top of the bread from getting too brown.
- Place the pan in the oven and bake for the first 30-40 minutes with the foil tent on.
- Remove the foil tent and bake another 20 minutes or until a skewer poked into thebreadcomes out clean. Then carefully remove the pan from the oven.
- Allow the bread to cool before slicing.
- Serve bread as slices or top with ice cream and chocolate syrup!
Notes
You can definitely change things up and make this recipe with any two of your favorite Ben & Jerry’s flavors.
Please note this recipe was only tested using regular, full-fat, full-dairy, full-sugar, full-everything Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors. Using light, non-dairy or frozen yogurt varieties may have different results.
The original recipe for this ice cream bread is from Ben & Jerry's.
Micky
Meet Micky Reed, your go-to snack expert and creator of The Three Snackateers—a hub for all the best sweets and treats to make, try, and buy. From whipping up collaborations with industry giants like Ben & Jerry's to being featured on Delish and PopSugar, Micky's delicious adventures are causing a stir in the foodie world. You can find Micky on IG and Pinterest.
