We just made our first family bike ride of the season to the neighborhood ice cream shop. The allergic kids usually get a frozen lemonade or Spiderman popsicle, but they always take a look into ice cream freezer to see what’s new…and to bring requests to me. I’ve had pretty good luck so far with Blue Moon, Superman, Lemon Custard, Bubblegum and Pumpkin.
This time they set their eyes on Birthday Cake ice cream. The prospect of baking a cake and mixing up frosting from scratch, to turn around and mix into ice cream was a serious roadblock for the requested flavor..so I had to come up with an alternative. So here it is, crushed Double Stuff Golden Oreos play the part of cake and frosting…add a little blue and sprinkles to my standard vanilla ice cream…and it’s perfect! Welcome to summer!
Birthday Cake Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 3 cups Silk soy creamer (about 1 1/2 pints)
- 20 regular marshmallows (about 1/2 bag)
- 1/3 cup sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 2 T. oil (avocado, canola or soy would be fine)
- 10 Double Stuff Golden Oreos
- 1/4 cup rainbow jimmies
- Blue food coloring
Instructions
- Put the marshmallows in a big microwave safe bowl. I have an 8 cup Pyrex that is perfect for this.
- Heat for 1-2 minutes, until soft and puffy.
- Whisk the soft marshmallows with 1/2 cup soy creamer until smooth. You may have to return the mixture to the microwave for another minute or so to get the marshmallows to fully melt into the creamer.
- Add the remaining 2 1/2 cups of creamer,
sugar and oil. Whisk until smooth and the marshmallows are all melted. - Cool the mixture down in the freezer or refrigerator before pouring into an ice cream maker to freeze. I have a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker that is wonderful.
- In a small bowl, smash the Oreos up with some blue food coloring until the Oreos are small chunks and the blue color is spread around pretty well. Add the jimmies into the bowl and set aside.
- Scoop the frozen ice cream out of the ice cream maker into the container you plan to freeze it in. Stir the cookie mixture into the ice cream. Don’t mix it around too much, or the vanilla ice cream will turn blue and the jimmies will get smashed up. Freeze and serve!
That is amazing! I would never have thought to put those golden oreos to help it taste like cake batter– and the marshmallows too. That’s genius. I love cake batter ice cream.
Thanks for sharing such great recipes! I just stumbled on to your blog. My daughter is allergic to dairy and peanuts, diagnosed almost three years ago at age 1. We are excited to try the ice cream recipe this weekend!
You’re welcome! Enjoy!
I was wondering if you could make this w/ coconut milk? My son is also allergic to Soy Milk. Any suggestions? Looks awesome!
This looks wonderful! Just in time for my son’s 3rd birthday. I see you use Golden Oreo’s. Do you also let them have the regular chocolate oreo’s? I’ve yet to try them with my dairy/egg/peanut allergic son.
Angela, I do. They prefer the Chocolate oreos, but we do Golden’s as well.
Regular Oreos are vegan (no dairy or egg). The cakesters have dairy, I haven’t checked the golden Oreos as we prefer chocolate.:)
what do you use as an ice cream maker? I see that mentioned in part of the steps for making it. I dont know exactly what to shop for?
Hi Traci, I have a Cuisinart-ICE-21-Frozen-Yogurt-Ice-Sorbet/dp/B003KYSLMW/ref=sr_1_1?s=home-garden&ie=UTF8&qid=1298996948&sr=1-1″ rel=”nofollow”>Cuisinart brand ice cream maker that I bought Amazon. Although, in the summer, Williams-Sonoma usually has a deal where you get an extra freezer bowl. It’s really worth getting the extra bowl if you can.
This looks super delicious, thanks for sharing a recipe with my favorite, birthday cake!