This Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream is made with a smooth vanilla ice cream, that is packed full of edible cookie dough bites and mini chocolate chips.
Who can pass up bits of chocolate chip cookie dough mixed into a smooth and creamy vanilla ice cream? It’s one of my favorite ice cream flavors or all time, and this homemade version is so much better than you could get from the store.
This cookie dough ice cream is loaded with eggless cookie dough chunks. It’s stuffed full of 1 1/2 cups of cookie dough pieces, so that you can get a piece in practically every bite. But if you need even more cookie dough (because honestly, I believe you can never have too much cookie dough), you can double the recipe for even more!
The ice cream starts with a simple no churn vanilla ice cream base. That means no ice cream machine needed to make this one. With my quick homemade eggless cookie dough, and mini chocolate chips throughout.
I doubled my edible cookie dough for one because I wanted to have lots of chunks of cookie dough in this ice cream.
This chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is one of the best. It’s delicious on it’s own, served with hot fudge and caramel sauce on top, and don’t forget the side of warm cookies or brownies.
It’s such a great easy recipe that only needs a few ingredients, and only takes a few minutes of active time to make!
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Why you’ll love this cookie dough ice cream recipe:
- It’s a delicious egg free, and cook free ice cream recipe
- It’s an easy machine free ice cream recipe too.
- It’s packed with tons of cookie dough chunks!
Ingredients Needed:
This is a quick overview of the ingredients you’ll need for this Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream recipe. Specific measurements and full recipe instructions are in the printable recipe card below.
For the Cookie Dough:
- salted butter – salted butter gives this cookie dough just the right flavor that it tastes like real cookie dough you’d bake up for cookies
- brown sugar and granulated sugar – a mixture of them both gives this cookie dough the flavor of real cookies
- vanilla extract – adds just the right flavor to the cookie dough
- milk – this replaces the eggs in the cookie, so you have just a little liquid to hold it all together.
- flour – because you need flour for cookie dough, it’s the bulk of the recipe. Read below for tips on heat treating the flour first.
- mini chocolate chips – you can’t skip the chocolate chips in cookie dough ice cream, they need to be mini so you can get a lot of them in the cookie dough.
For the Vanilla Ice Cream:
- sweetened condensed milk – this is the sweetness for our super simple ice cream base.
- vanilla extract – use real vanilla extract or vanilla paste (or even beans) for the best flavor.
- heavy whipping cream – no substitutes for this one, you need heavy cream that you can whip up into soft peaks to keep this ice cream creamy, and fluffy.
How to make Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream?
You’ll start by making a simple no churn vanilla ice cream. It’s made by whipping heavy cream until you have soft peaks, then folding it together with sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract in a large bowl.
Then you’ll layer your ice cream and cookie dough and a few chocolate chips, to make sure they are spread out evenly, in a 2Quart, 9×5 loaf pan and put it all into the freezer for at least 6 hours, or overnight until it’s hard enough to scoop. Then voila.
Tips and Tricks:
- Make sure to heat treat the flour to prevent you from getting E. coli. Spread the flour on a lined baking sheet and bake it at 350 F for about 5 minutes. Let it cool completely, then it’s ready to use.
- If you want an even creamier ice cream, use our vanilla ice cream for the base and add in the cookie dough pieces and chocolate chips instead of using the no churn ice cream listed in this recipe.
- I recommend freezing the ice cream overnight for the best results, any shorter than that and it will be a softer ice cream.
How to store homemade ice cream?
Store the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in an airtight container. Store it in the coldest part of your freezer (usually the back) for up to 3 weeks, for best results.
Any longer than that and your ice cream will start to get freezer burn on top and icy.
This chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream is the best. It’s creamy vanilla ice cream, loaded with lots of tasty cookie dough pieces and mini chocolate chips. You won’t be able to stop at one scoop!
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No Churn Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream
Ingredients
For the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:
- 1/4 cup butter (softened, 1/2 stick)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar
- 2 TBS white sugar
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 TBS milk
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 3/4 cup flour (add 1-2 TBS more if it's too sticky)
- 6 TBS mini chocolate chips
For the Ice Cream:
- 1 14 oz can sweetened condensed milk
- 2 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 cups heavy whipping cream
- 6 TBS mini chocolate chips
Instructions
For the Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough:
- Cream together the butter and sugars until mixed and light in color.
- Add in the vanilla and milk and stir to combine.
- Add in the salt and flour until all combined. Start with 3/4 cup flour, and if the mixture still feels a little too wet, add 1/2 TBS more flour at a time up to 2 TBS.
- Spread the cookie dough out on a piece of waxed paper in a thin layer.
- Place in freezer for about 10-30 minutes.
- Remove from freezer and chop into small squares.
For The Ice Cream:
- In a large bowl combine the condensed milk and the vanilla extract.
- In another large bowl, whip the heavy cream in a large bowl until medium stiff peaks are formed, a couple minutes on high.
- Fold the whipped cream into the sweetened condensed milk.
- Pour about 1/4 of the ice cream mixture into your 9x5 inch pan.
- Sprinkle some of the cookie dough pieces on top of your ice cream mixture. Swirl the cookie dough pieces through, so they are spread throughout the ice cream. Add a few more pieces on top if needed.
- Sprinkle with about 1-2 TBS of your mini chocolate chips, and swirl those throughout too.
- Repeat with another 1/4 of ice cream, 1/4 of cookie dough and 1-2 TBS chocolate chips.
- Repeat with the final layer, topping it with cookie dough pieces (roll them into balls to look nice if desired), and a few chocolate chips.
- Cover with plastic wrap or foil and place in freezer for 6 hours, or overnight. Scoop and enjoy.
This chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was first posted on May 15, 2015. The photos and text were updated for clarity on July 25, 2022.
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Paul J says
This ice cream and cookie dough was stunning! Made some yesterday and it was all gone in fewer than 24 hours! Much better than any ice cream I’ve bought in the store and so easy, thank you so much!
Aimee says
Yay! I’m so happy to hear that!
Marienna says
This recipe is AWSOME! Thank you! Love the cookie dough.
Aimee says
I’m so happy to hear that!
Christin says
This recipe is amazing! It tastes like an old fashioned ice cream parlor, hand-churned ice cream, and the cookie dough is sooooooo yummy! I doubled this recipe (I have a big family) and other than taking longer to “freeze up,” it didn’t affect the recipe at all. I used salted butter in the cookie dough AND still added the salt, and it made it the perfect amount of saltiness to sweetness ratio. Thank you for the recipe! I’m excited to experiment with other flavors!
Ellen says
YUM! So glad you loved it.
Jane says
This was an amazing recipe! The ice cream tasted delicious, and i didn’t even have to go to the store for any ingredients!
Lena says
Thank you for this recipe!!! It turned out delicious and my family loved it!
Aimee Berrett says
I’m so glad you all loved it <3 <3
Harmonium guide says
One of my favorite ice cream flavors!
Anne Logan says
I am lactose intolerant, can I make this with Lactaid milk, and if so would it be the same amount? It would be whole milk. Thank you.
Aimee Berrett says
So the problem is that you need the cream to whip to get the creamy texture where milk won’t whip up at all. You could try a coconut cream ice cream base instead. Unless you’re just talking about the 2 TBS of milk in the cookie dough, then that should be no problem
D Rhodes says
In natural grocers and wholes food they have a condensed coconut milk. I have no problem and its a game changer to the taste of any ice cream you want to make.
Aimee says
I will have to try that. yum!
Ana says
This looks easy enough to for me to give it a try. Do I use salted or unsalted butter?
Aimee Berrett says
I usually use unsalted. You could leave the salt out and use salted if you prefer.
Christie says
LOVED this recipe! Thank you for sharing it! Just wondering if you have ever tried it with half and half? Or any suggestions to cut down on some of the fat? Thanks again 😊
Aimee Berrett says
Hi Christie, Half and half won’t whip into whipped creamy the way heavy whipping cream will, so unfortunately that wouldn’t work. I do know you can buy fat free condensed milk, so you could try it out with that!
Maryanne says
Thank you so much for sharing such a delicious recipe. It is a major hit!!
Aimee Berrett says
So glad you liked it Maryanne!
Logan Can says
Hi! This looks delicious! Can I include this recipe in my Ice Cream Round up post next week?
Aimee Berrett says
Yes of course. Thank you! Leave the link for me when the round up goes live please!
Hannah says
Can I use regular chocolate chips for this? I don’t have any mini chocolate chips.
Aimee says
I would chop up the regular chocolate chips so you don’t have pieces of hard chocolate that are too big
thefoodcharlatan1 says
There is a seriously soft spot in my heart for cookie dough ice cream but I’ve never made my own. I have to try this!!
Laura says
My kids love cookie dough ice cream. Will have to try this homemade version!
Ashlee says
Mmmm love cookie dough ice cream! and I agree with Amber, I love making it as full of cookie dough as I want (not stingy like the store)
Jessica Williams says
We love homemade ice cream! I’ll have to try this one for sure!
Amber @ Dessert Now, Dinner Later! says
I totally need to make cookie dough ice cream! Then I can put a lot more cookie dough in it than the stores give you! Haha!
Sneha says
I Love this . 🙂
Sarah @Whole and Heavenly Oven says
I’m absolutely loving the fact that this ice cream is no-churn! Cookie dough ice cream is totally my biggest weakness and this is looking perfect to me right now!