This chocolate ice cream is swirled with bite-size wafer cookies and also loaded with chocolate-covered chunks of Kit Kat candy bars. Kit Kat Ice Cream has everything you love about Kit Kat candy bars swirled into each scoop of this homemade ice cream.

I share a new ice cream recipe here every Friday – which might lead you to think we’d eventually get tired of ice cream. Well, that sure hasn’t happened yet.

Do chocolate ice creams call your name? Dark Chocolate Ice Cream delivers just the right amount of sweetness, it’s the perfect treat for chocolate lovers who enjoy a bittersweet twist. And for an unexpected and absolutely fantastic chocolate option, try Chocolate Orange Ice Cream. (If you’re skeptical of the chocolate and citrus combination, one taste will likely be all it takes to convince you.)

Are fruit ice creams more your style? With chunks of cinnamon crust and syrupy peaches in every bite, Peach Cobbler Ice Cream is a masterpiece. The vibrant flavor of sweet, ripe cherries fills every bite of this Black Cherry Ice Cream. And for a classic summer treat, just a few ingredients add up to the Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream that everyone loves.

The most popular question I get is whether it’s possible to make ice cream without a machine. The answer is YES. You can make ice cream without a machine. Find the full directions here!

Kit Kat Ice Cream

You’ll need the following ingredients to make this recipe:

• heavy cream
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Sweet cream and orange juice come together in this easy homemade ice cream recipe. If you liked creamsicles as a kid, you’re likely to love this ice cream.

Orange Ice Cream

Nothing, but nothing screams nostalgia to me like creamsicles. It’s no secret that I’m a sucker for citrus in ice cream.

Today’s ice cream is about as simple and satisfying as homemade ice cream can get. It’s just a matter of whisking together the ingredients and pouring it into your ice cream maker.

Orange Ice Cream Recipe

This ice cream is at its best when made with freshly squeezed juice. You can either purchase freshly squeezed juice or juice oranges yourself. I prefer to juice them myself; it takes about 3 oranges to get the necessary cup of juice.

Orange extract gives the ice cream more depth of flavor, too. If you can’t find it, you can still make the recipe, but it will lack a little of the bright oomph the recipe yields when made as written.

We have a few takes on orange ice cream here, from our classic Six Threes Ice Cream to our Chocolate Orange Ice Cream and Orange Sherbet. Orange and cream go so very well together.

We have something for all my fellow citrus lovers, though, and not just orange. Lemon and lime fanatics are represented with our bright and sunny Lime Ice Cream and Lemon Ice Cream recipes.

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Give me a brownie and ice cream over pretty much any other baked good and ice cream combination. So, naturally, a bowl of chocolate ice cream generously filled with fudgy chunks of brownies calls my name – loudly.

Chocolate Brownie Ice Cream

There’s something I simply can’t resist in the classic combination of chewy, fudgy brownies topped with a scoop of melting ice cream. And before we get too far into this mouthwatering recipe for brownie-filled ice cream, let’s not confuse this with the original Brownie Ice Cream – that ice cream = a bowl full of brownies blended into smooth, creamy ice cream. (It’s delicious as well!)

This chocolate fudge brownie ice cream starts with a rich, deep chocolate ice cream that is then fully loaded with chunks of chocolatey, chewy, fudgy brownies. My favorite brownies to add to this ice cream are Cosmic Brownies (skip the candies on top) because the extra fudgy brownies (with or without the frosting on top) just add to the awesomeness of this ice cream.

And to make your chocolate brownie ice cream even more irresistible, drizzling some hot fudge sauce through the churned ice cream while layering it into a freezer container will deliver sweet swirls of fudge in every bite along with those fantastic bites of chewy fudge brownie.

Side note – PLEASE make sure that the hot fudge sauce is no warmer than room temperature when you drizzle it into the ice cream. We don’t want that lovely freshly-churned ice cream to start

Yes, pickle ice cream! No, I’m not crazy! It’s weird and it’s oddly wonderful all at the same time. Somehow it just works.

Pickle Ice Cream

Oh, pickle ice cream. You have not been an easy one to conquer. I tried simmering cream with herbs, tried adding just the brine (good, but not as fun), and finally tried simply adding very finely minced pickles at the end of the churning process.

Plenty of sweet, creamy ice cream flavor with a tangy tart bite from those pickles. We’ve shared this ice cream with so many people now! It’s a hard one to describe and about half the people kept tasting it to decide if it’s a love or a hate thing for them.

My friend and I decided the ice cream was a win and that the chewy little pickle bits were so unexpectedly fun at the end of each bite. Would we eat this every week? Probably not, but live a little and have some fun in the form of pickle ice cream!

Unusual Ice Cream Flavors

And if experimental ice cream flavors ding your chimes, you should try these other combinations we have here on BFK. Some are wild, others are just wildly wondrous or over the top!

In the delightfully over the top category, we have Peach Cobbler Ice Cream. With creamy vanilla ice cream filled with chunks of peach cobbler and cinnamon crust and syrupy peaches in every bite, this ice cream is irresistible.

And coming in as an odd-sounding but positively delightful and divine offering, we have three great flavors.

First, Grape Nut Ice Cream. Creamy sweet vanilla ice cream filled with crunchy, nutty grape nuts? Yes, please! This grape nut ice cream has been an absolute win with family and friends.

Dr Pepper ice cream blends the nostalgia of a soda fountain d

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 
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