If you love apple cider, you’ll likely fall completely in love with Apple Cider Ice Cream. Rich and creamy, fragrant with apples and real apple cider flavor, this ice cream is heavenly when scooped over an apple crisp or served with a slice of pie.

Apple Cider Ice Cream

I tested this recipe a few different ways, and simply couldn’t get the flavor I wanted from apple cider initially. Then I finally stumbled on boiled cider.

What is Boiled Cider?

In a nutshell, boiled cider is a roughly 8 to 1 concentration of apple cider. Nothing is added. It has a tart, sweet apple taste. It will add an intense apple flavor to anything that you cook with apples.

Can you make boiled cider at home? Sure. You’ll need a gallon of cider to make about 2 cups worth of boiled cider. It will take about 5-6 hours to reduce down over low simmering heat.

That said, I found purchasing boiled cider to be a terrific option for my purposes. You can purchase it on Amazon, and also directly from the apple orchard. (It’s a trade off with a higher price and free shipping from Amazon or a lower price and paid shipping direct from the seller.)

Apple Ice Cream Recipe

To make this ice cream, you’ll need the following ingredients:

• Heavy cream
• Sugar
• Kosher salt
• Whole milk
• Boiled apple cider 
• Va

Holiday Oatmeal is filled with fresh apples, dried fruits, nuts, creamy oats, and brown sugar to create a deliciously filling hot breakfast. Less than 15 minutes from start to finish and a piping hot, warm, and creamy breakfast can be on your table.

This breakfast is a great way to start a fun day of cooking and eating during the holidays or any other day of the year. Thanksgiving or Christmas, holiday morning or not, it’s a delicious way to start the day year-round.

This oatmeal requires minimal fuss and it will keep the family full until the main eating event of the day. Over the years, this has become a tradition for our Thanksgiving breakfast.

Oatmeal with Fruit

We’ve been making our oatmeal recipes with fruit for about as long as I can remember and we’ve been making this particular fruit-filled oatmeal for over 10 years now. Holiday Oatmeal is a huge favorite with both the adults and the kids in our home.

Every guest we’ve ever served this to has requested the recipe. With plenty of fresh apples, sliced bananas, dried fruits, and nuts, cooked into creamy oats with a bit of brown sugar, this is a memorable oatmeal for everyone.

You can make this (and most other oatmeal recipes) with milk or with water and the oatmeal turns out great both ways. When I make oatmeal with water, I top each bowl with a pat of butter when I’m serving it.

Whenever we have an abundance of fruit in the kitchen, it’s a sure bet that some of it will make its way into our oatmeal in the morning. Apple Cinnamon Oatmeal is solid proof of that and my boys love that one too.

My own favorite quick breakfast year-round is Blueberries and Cream, but classic Peach Oatmeal and Peach Baked Oatmeal trump that when peaches are in season.

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Heirloom Apple Rolls

Heirloom apple rolls are one of my favorite recipes and it’s been passed down through our family for over 200 years! Perfect for breakfast or dessert, these rolls are the perfect treat for a cozy autumn day.

Grandma’s House

My Grandma was such a lovely, sweet, tender hearted woman and these apple rolls are her recipe from over 100 years ago at least (although I did modernize them with butter instead of lard). She pass just a few months ago now so this recipe has taken on a new level of tenderness and memory.

I loved going to Grandma’s house, sitting on her lap to read a bazillion stories and have her tickle my arms or back until both of us were out cold. She lived in the same, cute house in Jerome, Idaho until the end, and I don’t know that many people had a backyard quite like hers. We would have summer picnics where all the cousins would come over and we’d run around playing games while the adults prepared the food and Grandma made homemade ice cream.

The weather was always perfect, the grass green and the trees were strong and tall to climb in. You could always find my older sister up in an apple or apricot tree reading another book. We loved visiting the cows on the farm to give them bottles, collecting “cat tails”, playing in the ditch,  and creating “circus acts” on the swing set during family picnics under the fruit trees. Grandma’s house was magical.

Heirloom Rolls

This apple roll recipe has sooo much sentimental value to me. This is a recipe that just keeps getting passed down through the generations, and I now I’ve taught my darling girls to make them for their future families. Grandma said that this recipe was passed down through the “Mamas” to their new families clear until it got to my mom, who hates cooked apples and dropped the ball. I’m lucky that Grandma taught me to make them so I can continue the tradition. I love how much she loved this recipe and her memories of her mother making them and the kids being so excited and mouths just watering while they waited to eat them.

Here’s what Grandma said about the rolls,

“We used to be so hungry for them, and mama would put them in a big square pan and that’s all we would eat for dinner. We would eat them with fresh cream and we just couldn’t wait to eat them up!”

Grandma was just darling. Seriously, just look at how cute she was! Mary Tyler Thueson was an incredible storyteller. In fact, she wrote a book and gave it to each of her kids and grandkids. So, I thought it would be fun to share her stories every now and again (scroll down past the recipe card to read one of Grandma’s stories). Plus, I love that these old recipes use ingredients that are simple and have been around forever.

Ingredients for Heirloom Apple Rolls

It may come as a surprise but there is no yeast in these sweet rolls. There are just a few ingredients needed to make this treasured recipe. Here is what you’ll need:

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Apple Crisp Ice Cream, the name alone sounds pretty amazing, doesn’t it? 

That’s before I tell you that this ice cream is made with the creamiest of homemade vanilla ice creams, then completely loaded with bits of cinnamon sweet baked apples, and crunchy streusel topping.

There is nothing about this ice cream that I did not love. (Except perhaps the fact that I ate way too much of it.)

The idea for this ice cream popped into my mind a few weeks ago. I tried a couple of different versions using the same ingredients, but not with a real apple crisp. They lacked the authentic apple crisp flavor I wanted.

Apple Crisp Ice Cream

I finally caved and decided to bake an actual apple crisp just for the ice cream. As soon as my apple crisp finished cooling last week, I was chopping it into bits and folding it into this ice cream.

I don’t know when I’ve been more excited about an ice cream recipe. (Spoiler alert – that excitement was fully justified.)

I initially thought of this recipe as “sacrificing” an apple crisp for the ice cream, but after one bit