Spiced Apple Ice Cream
Spiced Apple Ice Cream Recipe – This homemade ice cream recipe is delicious with intense apple flavor from apple butter. It is the perfect accompaniment to cookies and cakes.
A Love for Homemade Ice Cream Recipes
When you walk down the ice cream aisle at your grocery store, there are cases and cases of ice cream tubs, but not that many flavor options. Once you get past the standard chocolate, vanilla, strawberry, butter pecan, cookies and cream, and candy bar swirl varieties, what do you really have?
You certainly won’t find chocolate lavender ice cream or whiskey walnut…. Specialty ice cream flavors are something you’ll most likely have to make at home.
Learning how to make homemade ice cream is much easier than you might think. There’s quite a bit of waiting around involved, but other than that, it’s simply whisk-simmer-churn.
Easy Apple Dessert
This Spiced Apple Ice Cream is something I came up with to serve with my most recent cookie recipe, Cinnamon-Butterscotch Oatmeal Cookies. I thought, what better to go along with cinnamon and oats than intense spiced apple flavor!
I adjusted my favorite vanilla ice cream recipe to include Musselman’s Apple Butter. The richness and spice from Musselman’s Apple Butter was just the punch needed to turn this Spiced Apple Ice Cream into something spectacular.
It’s creamy, loaded with spice, and that distinct apple butter flavor that reminds us of childhood. I am in love with this Spiced Apple Ice Cream, and hope you will be too!
How to Make Homemade Ice Cream
Recipe’s Ingredients
- Half & Half
- Egg Yolks
- Musselman’s Apple Butter
- Sugar
- Vanilla Extract
- Salt
What else you need to know
- Set a medium saucepot on the stovetop. Pour in the half and half, egg yolks, apple butter, vanilla, and salt. Make sure that it is all combined by whisking it together.
- As the ingredients start to warm up, keep whisking until it thickens. Then bring the temperature down.
- Cover the pot with the lid and put it in the fridge overnight, or for at least 4 hours. (If you are in a hurry, place in the freezer for 1 hour stirring every 20 minutes.
- Then pour it into the ice cream machine making sure that there are no clumps.
- Churn for about 20 minutes or until the cream is thick. Then scoop it into a container to put in the freezer to harden.
Get The Full (Printable) Recipe Below For How To Make Spiced Apple Ice Cream.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I add apple slices to this?
Yes of course! After you church the ice cream, you can add in your apple slices. You could even make spiced apples and mix that into the churned ice cream.
Should I invest in an ice cream maker?
KitchenAid makes an awesome ice cream maker attachment that fits with a stand mixer. I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker and it’s been a great little machine.
Other Desserts To Try:
- Spiced Apples Recipe
- Apple Spice Coffee Cake Recipe
- Apple Cake with Salted Caramel Frosting Recipe
- Dutch Apple Pie Recipe
- Easy Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
- Caramel Apple Oatmeal Cookies Recipe
- Cheesecake Brownie Ice Cream ~ Journey Kitchen
Spiced Apple Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 4 cups half & half
- 2 large egg yolks
- 1 cup Musselman's Apple Butter
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 pinches salt
Instructions
- Place a sauce pot over medium heat. Add the half & half, egg yolks, Musselman's Apple Butter, sugar, vanilla and salt. Whisk well.
- Continue to whisk as the mixture warms and thickens. Bring to a low boil and remove from heat.
- Place the lid on the pot and refrigerate for at least 4 hours or overnight. *If you're in a hurry, place in the freezer for 1 hour, but stir every twenty minutes. Don't forget about it!
- Turn on the ice cream machine. Place a sieve over the top to remove any egg clumps, and pour the ice cream mixture into the frozen ice cream bowl.
- Churn for 20+ minutes until thick like soft serve ice cream. Then scoop the Spice Apple Ice Cream into an airtight container and freeze to harden.
This ice cream and those oatmeal cookies together as an ice cream sandwich!!!!
ooh this sounds divine! i’m your newest pinterest follower :)
Now this is one I really want to make! I make home made apple butter and I can just imagine how good it would be in this recipe!
I love my ice cream Sommer, and this caught my eye. How to you make apple butter if it’s not in your store? Or is it just apple puree?
My intense WANT for that oatmeal cookie ice cream sandwich has quickly surpassed into an urgent NEED. This looks INCREDIBLE. I’m a cinnamon freak and probably go through an average-sized bottle every week. — no joke!
Um, yes please! I love apple flavored ice cream, but I’ve yet to try it at home. Thank you for sharing another dose of inspiration. I hope you are having a great week and are staying warm.
Mmmm definitely not too cold for this ice cream
thanks for the link love dear! I can’t wait to try your recipe!
I’ve actually been craving cin+apple.
Now, in ice cream form?
NO one can resist that!
What a great idea! I love apple butter and this looks amazing!
Sommer Im a HUGE Musselman’s apple butter fan! I never thought to put it in ice cream!!! I LOVE this!!
Forget the bowl!! I’ll eat this straight from the ice cream machine!
I really need to invest in an ice cream maker this summer! Any brand you would recommend or endorse? Spiced Apple? I’m there! It’s a flavour I enjoy through and through!
Hi Jen, I know KitchenAid makes an awesome attachment that fits with the stand mixer. I have a Cuisinart ice cream maker and it’s been a great little machine.
Oh my word, these look delish. I love that you sandwiched the ice cream in the cookies. I’d go for a 10 mile run, just to eat one of these!
This ice cream looks incredible! And in between those cookies?! Yes, I need this now!
Love your creativity with the apple butter, this ice cream sounds wonderful.
Of course, just before heading to bed, I’m now needing to raid the freezer for ice cream. Wish I had some of this homemade apple – sounds incredible to me right now!
Yum! The color of coffee ice cream, but what a nice surprise! I actually have apple butter right now, which is a little freaky.