Ice Cream Bread (3-Ingredient!)
The Best Chocolate Chip Ice Cream Bread Recipe – This moist, tender, and unique bread is easy to make with only 3 simple ingredients, including your favorite flavor of ice cream and add-ins!
Why We Love This Ice Cream Bread Recipe
This easy-to-make, and perhaps unusual, Ice Cream Bread makes a fantastic breakfast bread or afternoon snack!
The words ice cream and bread might not be things you think generally go together, but you can actually make a very easy and delicious bread with ice cream in it. That is, melted ice cream.
Think about it… Melted ice cream is essentially milk or cream, sugar, eggs, a little salt, vanilla extract, and possible add-ins. Melt that down and add in self-rising flour and you have everything you need to make a simple bread with a light tender texture.
Here we melted down chocolate chip ice cream, and threw in an extra handful of mini chocolate chips for good measure, then mixed it with self-rising flour. Bake and serve!
This bread is sweet, but not overly sweet or dense like a pound cake. It is decidedly a bread, which makes it feel appropriate for smearing with toppings and enjoying any time of day.
Give this recipe a try and I’m sure you’ll enjoy making it with all sorts of combinations!
3 Ingredients You Need
- Chocolate chip ice cream (or your preferred flavor)
- Self-rising flour
- Mini chocolate chips
Although you can make ice cream bread with vanilla ice cream, strawberry ice cream, or any other flavor, I really love chocolate chip ice cream bread with extra chocolate chips. Use whatever flavor and add-ins you like best!
How to Make Ice Cream Bread
Preheat the oven to 350°F. Set out a 9 x 5-inch loaf pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit across the bottom and up the long edges of the bread pan. Spray the bread pan with nonstick cooking spray and secure the parchment paper across the bottom of the pan folding the extra paper over the edges.
Set out a large measuring pitcher. Scoop and press the ice cream in the pitcher to ensure you have 3 cups. Allow the ice cream to melt and add additional ice cream if needed to make sure you have the right amount.
Set out a mixing bowl. Measure the self-rising flour into the bowl. Then pour the melted ice cream over the top.
Whisk until smooth. Then mix in approximately 1/3 a cup of mini chocolate chips.
Pour the batter into the prepared pan.
Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of mini chocolate chips over the top of the batter.
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Bake on the center rack for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted deep into the center comes out clean.
Allow the quick bread to cool for at least 15 minutes in the pan. Then use the edges of the parchment paper to gently lift it out of the pan.
Once the bread is fully cooled, cut and serve.
Recipe Variations
- Use different favorite ice cream flavors you like! Simple vanilla, strawberry, or use chocolate ice cream; they’re all delicious. Or get wild with it and try exciting flavors like pistachio, butter pecan ice cream, or any other varieties that entice you.
- Make this a dairy-free recipe by using your preferred plant-based frozen dessert.
- Use gluten-free self-rising flour for GF-friendly ice cream bread.
- No self-rising flour? No problem! Whisk together 2 1/2 cups of all-purpose flour with 2 teaspoons of baking powder in a separate bowl before combining with the melted ice cream.
- Add in extra goodies! In this recipe, we include mini chocolate chips. Include whatever add-ins you like such as chopped walnuts or pecans, mini caramel or peanut butter chips, shaved coconut, rainbow sprinkles, or chopped freeze-dried fruit.
Frequently Asked Questions
Besides flour and a leavening agent (like baking powder), ice cream contains basically everything you need to make a sweet loaf of bread… Dairy, sugar, eggs, salt – it’s all right there in one handy ice cream container!
No, these are very different kinds of flour. Self-rising flour is simply all-purpose flour with a leavening agent already added. Bread flour is heartier flour that has more protein, and yields a more dense and chewy crumb.
This sweet and tender bread is delightful to enjoy simply by itself as a snack or breakfast treat. But it’s also delicious to smear with softened butter, peanut or nut butter, Nutella, or other sweet spreads.
Store in an airtight container or wrap the loaf tightly in plastic wrap. Homemade bread will keep well at room temperature for up to 4 or 5 days.
For longer storage, I recommend freezing the ice cream bread. First, tightly wrap the loaf in plastic wrap or secure it in a plastic zipper bag. Then wrap in a layer of aluminum foil before freezing for up to 3 months.
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Ice Cream Bread Recipe
Ingredients
- 3 cups chocolate chip ice cream
- 2 ½ cups self-rising flour
- ½ cup mini chocolate chips
Instructions
- Preheat the oven to 350°F. Set out a 9 x 5-inch bread pan. Cut a piece of parchment paper to fit across the bottom and up the long edges of the bread pan. Spray the bread pan with nonstick cooking spray and secure the parchment paper across the bottom of the pan folding the extra paper over the edges.
- Set out a large measuring pitcher. Scoop and press the ice cream in the pitcher to ensure you have 3 cups. Allow the ice cream to melt and add additional ice cream if needed to make sure you have the right amount.
- Set out a mixing bowl. Measure the self-rising flour into the bowl. Then pour the melted ice cream over the top. Whisk until smooth. Then mix in approximately 1/3 a cup of mini chocolate chips.
- Pour the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle the remaining tablespoon of mini chocolate chips over the top of the batter.
- Bake on the center rack for 50-60 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted deep into the center comes out clean.
- Allow the bread to cool for at least 15 minutes in the pan. Then use the edges of the parchment paper to gently lift it out of the pan. Once the bread is fully cooled, cut and serve.
yes, used cheesecake flavored ice cream and it was very dry and no taste. Maybe I did something wrong.
Once mixed it was really thick! Didn’t go in the baking pan easily. Did I go something wrong?