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Cookies and Cream (Haägen Dazs Copycat)
Confession booth open? I don’t like food that requires 2 cups of cream with a little seasoning and that’s it. Sure, I like a hint of cream/sour cream just as much as the next guy, but if the flavor has to come from cream or butter alone, I’ll pass. Probably why I switch channels when the Barefoot Contessa is on: using 3 sticks of butter for a lunch goes way beyond my imagination. Different strokes for different folks.
Same applies to ice cream. I just bought an ice cream maker—a Philips machine that turned out so-so—and it would be easy to combine 2 cups of cream with sugar, some vanilla extract and that’s it, but I don’t want to do that. Just like any other kid, my son loves ice cream, but I feel there’s way too much calories when it’s prepped like that. Two scoops of ice cream is most likely more than half, if not all, of his daily fat intake in just one sitting! I dunno, it doesn’t feel right.
So lucky for me there are other ways, slightly healthier ways, that taste every bit as good. Here’s my favorite and perhaps wee bit unorthodox recipe for a copycat version of J-man’s (and mine) all-time favorite ice cream: Haägen Dazs Cookies & Cream.
Ingredients:
4 tbsp flour
2 cups milk
1/4 tsp salt
2 tbsp sugar
1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk
1 small vanilla pod
5 Oreo’s
Directions:
*This recipe is egg-free, so it’s perfect for those of you who are pregnant, have kids or who are simply concerned about a possible salmonella infection.
Pour 2 cups of milk (I used 2%) in a sauce pan.
And stir in 4 tbsp flour.
Open up 1 small vanilla pod, scrape out the seeds and add them to the milk. Alternately you could use 1 or 2 tsp vanilla extract in stead, but substituting one for the other is like comparing a Harley Davidson to a scoot-mobile.
Add 1/4 tsp salt. Somehow the ice cream needs the salt, it tastes ‘off’ when I don’t add it.
And throw in 2 tbsp granulated sugar.
Put the pan on the stove and slowly heat it until the milk starts to thicken. This will take a few minutes. Keep stirring!
The ice cream base will now be much thicker but still pourable. You don’t want it to be too thick or your ice cream machine will jam. Transfer it to a bowl and let it cool off.
As soon as the vanilla milk has cooled off, stir in 1/2 a cup sweetened condensed milk. This will give your ice cream plenty of flavor, sweetness and richness.
Let the mix get really cold before adding it to the ice cream maker. And I mean really cold.
Transfer it to the ice cream maker and let it do its thing. This machine turned out to be a less than stellar buy, let me tell you that.
Right before the ice cream is done, crumble up 5 Oreo’s and add them to the machine. Don’t let the machine mix them up too long, you want coarser pieces as well.
See, mine is still a touch on the soft side, so I put it in the freezer (In a Tupperware container) for another one to two hours.
And that be the stuff that dreams are made of, cookies and cream.
Kay’s Recipe Card
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| Cookies & Cream | |
| Ingredients |
2 cups milk 1/4 tsp salt 2 tbsp sugar 1/2 cup sweetened condensed milk 1 small vanilla pod 5 oreo’s |
| Directions |
Let the ice cream base cool off and add the sweetened condensed milk. Stir well and let the mix get really cold, and stir well before adding it to the ice cream bowl. Let your ice cream maker do its thing and right before the ice cream is done, crumble in the Oreo’s. Put the ice cream back in the freezer for one or two hours. Serve with an extra oreo on the side. |
| Meal type: | dessert |
| Servings: | 4 |
| copyright © kayotickitchen.com | |
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Oh boy oh boy oh boy, this looks so good.
You’re a smart woman!!! I really have to try this out. Thank you!!!!
MMmmmmm. I wish we had a bigger fridge with a bigger freezer compartment so I could get an ice cream machine and be able to freeze the freezey part. I’m just about determined to manage that this summer however!
Sounds great and alot healthier than most.
Question, what is it you don’t like about your machine and about how long does it take to make?
Thanks Kay
@ Teri:
The bowl has to be in the freezer forever before you can actually make ice cream. Had to keep it in there for 36 hours and have a freezing cold cream base or nothing would happen. The ice cream, after it’s done, is much softer than the ice cream used to be in my old ice making machine. It also jams really fast. All in all, I really wouldn’t recommend this one.
My girls and their dad :) adore Cookies and Cream ice cream as well. This is the perfect recipe for me!
Good on you Kay, for always coming up with healthier options.
Oh yum, Kay! Like the use of flour for thickening instead of eggs! And I can imagine that the condensed milk would give just the right amount of sweetness. I have a Krups ice cream maker that I really like. It’s worked perfectly for over 10 years now.
@Lizziebee:
My kitchen is almost too small for the huge side by side I put in it but I can’t miss it anymore :)
My favorite flavor! I just said to the girls yesterday that I wanted to get an ice cream maker!
Love this ice cream base. Can imagine all sorts of mix ins for all sorts of flavour experiments.
hi, this looks delicious, but i dont have an ice cream maker, is there any other possible way to make this without one?
@ Laura:
Aside from granita, I’ve never made ice cream without an ice cream maker, so can’t help you.
Is there any substitute for condensed milk?
@ Irén:
Probably something you can make yourself by combining things. You’ll have to google it.
This ice cream looks delicious Kay. I just bought an ice cream maker myself. Kitchen Aid attachment to my brand new Kitchen Aid mixer. Hooray!! It’s perfect and I’ve been making ice cream every week. I will try this also. I love the fact that it is egg free.
Magda
@ My little expat kitchen:
You mean there’s actually an ice cream attachment for the kitchen aid standmixer? How does it work?
I live my ice-cream bowl in the freezer – permanently! I take it out to use and then put it back when I’m done (rinsed out of course!). Plus, did you know you can make vanilla powder…..and use up those dried pods? I have now made it twice – kind of makes using extract a thing of the past! Just dry the pods on high in the microwave till they puff up and then blitz up in your spice grinder. And voila, klaar voor.
Wow, looks great, never thought of using flour in my ice cream, do you taste it at all? I’ve never made ice cream without eggs, never worried about salmonella, since the custard requires the eggs to get to near boiling point and salmonella and other bacteria die at 72 celsius, but it does take a lot of time. This sounds a lot quicker!
@Laura (nr11) yes, ice cream without a machine is possible and easy! Best is to use a custard base though, I’ve got a full instruction here: http://www.vandeflier.com/2010/06/ice-cream/, I bought an ice cream machine a week later on sale, but this was totally doable!
I like the step by step photos of your recipes!
This looks sooo good! my bf loves cookies n cream and we just finished off the box we had of it from the store. i dont have an ice cream maker and dont plan on getting one – can you just do it without one and just stick it in the freezer until its ice cream?
Hi Kay! I was so intrigued by your recipe and especially because it uses no cream! I made it and posted it on my blog (giving you credit of course!). It came out so good! Thank you so much for showing us that there’s another way to make ice-cream!
Cheri
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Hi, i googled “Haagen Dazs Recipe” and fond this website.i was worndering i am glad to find out this recipe cas i am spending so much money for Haagen Dazs in Japan… well…I am so inspired by your recipes and creativity!! so happy to find your website.
I’m confused. Why do you call this a Haagen Dazs copycat recipe? Haagen Dazs doesn’t have cornstarch in their list of ingredients.
Because it tastes like Haagen Dazs cookies & cream?!
Hi Kay,
I have enjoyed several of your recipes since discovering your blog on Pinterest,so…thankyou!
My husband and daughter love ice cream and frozen yogurt but I hate for them to eat commercial brands because of all of the scary additives in them so I purchased a Cuisinart 2qt. stainless steel ice cream freezer and it is without a doubt my favorite kitchen toy!
I just made a batch of your Cookies and Cream ice cream and I wanted to thank you for the recipe…it has alot less sugar and fat than most of the recipes I have come across. I used 1% milk and the ice cream still came out very creamy…my ice cream lovers were pleased!