Look: Ice Cream Bread!

Ice cream bread? Why yes! Take a look at our newest obsession.

We're not quite sure where this genius idea originated from, but we like it. Essentially you combine your favorite ice cream with a few cups of self-rising flour and the rest is magic. Two of our favorite things, bread and ice cream, come together in a fabulous marriage to create a light, sweet bread. The possibilities seem endless with numerous flavors and interesting add-ins. Have you ever made ice cream bread?

Try a Recipe!
• Butter Pecan Ice Cream Bread - Taste of Home
• Ice Cream Bread - Tasty Kitchen

(Images: Taste of Home and Wikimedia Commons)

Comments (27)

*stares slack-jawed*

Suddenly the thought of Cherry Garcia BREAD just got me real interested.

oh my oh my oh my.

I'll be picking up some icecream on my way home tonight, for sure. Makes perfect sense now that I think about it: eggs, sugar, fat (cream) - just missing the starch and hey presto...

I've made it twice. First time it came out PERFECT (can't remembre the ice cream i used). The second time was DISGUSTING. I don't know if it was the ice cream or what (i used Ben/Jerry's Cherry Garcia).

I AM WILLING TO TRY IT AGAIN.
And empresscallipygos, please let me know how it turns out.

Oh my...this just sounds too easy and too yummy not to try. I think the most difficult thing will be picking which ice cream flavor to use.

Yes. Years ago, I used vanilla ice cream as a substitute for quite a few ingredients in pound cake, with a little rum. It was incredible. I have never had the nerve to try duplicating it and over time forgot what all was involved.

It seems to me this is the kind of thing where a scale/ measuring by weight is absolutely necessary. The volume of ice cream varies a TON by brand, and many brands are mostly air. Ben and Jerry's is a notable exception which probably explains the Cherry Garcia disaster Sleek1 had.

YUMMMMM!!!!

I think I know what I'm trying this weekend!

@MaryWynn It's probably not so bad even if you don't have a scale -- if you buy a 16 oz brick of ice cream and you need 8 oz, you can just chop it in half. Then volume wouldn't matter.

Question - it's not entirely clear to me that the consistency of the ice cream has to be. Softened but not melted? Does it matter?

I'm on a bread roll this week so I think I may give this a shot tonight. I had wanted to go to Baskin Robbins.

MIND BLOWN. confused, yet curious. totally totally trying it.

@Sleek1, LOL! so funny. i think i'll try mine with vanilla! i guess it makes sense -- ice cream is cream, eggs, sugar... plus self rising flour that has (obviously) rising ingredients... mix 'er all up and it's like you made a little cake.

so great, so lazy, so weird! can't wait to try!

How have none of us heard of this?? It sounds amazing! Now to buy a pint of ice cream and NOT eat it before I can make bread with it!

seriously? How have I not tried this?
hangs head in shame.

The recipe says to use full fat ice cream. Can I use the full-fat but with splenda kind? Any tips would be appreciated

Wow. I would have never thought of this; whoever did is certainly very creative. The butter pecan one sounds amazing. Now I have an excuse to buy more Blue Bell ice cream.

This is ingenious.

This does not sound appetizing to me at all.

Damn damn damn. I just threw out a partially eaten half gallon of brandy ice cream that would have been perfect to try this with.

I'm hyperventilating in excitement! When I get my cokker (my old one died and I'm waiting for the new one to arrive) this will be one of my very first lazy-but-lovely projects!

Thanx for posting!

I have never heard of the bread with ice cream idea but I have heard of mixing 1 pint of ice cream with 1 box cake mix (adding in the eggs too). I have made the cake mix kind several times and it made great cupcakes using Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake flavor.

I made a cake from melted ice cream once-I think it was from the cake mix doctor or something. But not bread-I am really wanting to try this. Wondering how it would taste using chunky monkey and some extra banana?

Jwink3101: I don't know why splenda would change the recipe. Try it and tell us what you think!

And juju73, I think chunky monkey would be fabulous.

it's bread? not cake?

please let my mom never hear of this...

oh my goodness. i can't wait to try this!

This was awesome. I used strawberry breyers double-churn.

Definitely a sweet bread, not a cake. Will be lovely warmed up with a cuppa tea.

Excited about this! Just got some TJ's pumpkin ice cream and I'm not loving it by itself, it's just too much somehow. If I can salvage it into yummy pumpkin bread I'll be so happy!

I have some leftover pumpkin ice cream--an experiment neither of us loved--in the freezer....

I made this with pumpkin ice cream over the weekend and it turned out just awful. Not sure if I did something wrong but it was dry and crumbly and curiously savory. Just nasty. Another one of my culinary experiments that goes to the little pet rats.