The sweet, starchy milk from the end of your cereal bowl in ICE CREAM form! This simple ice cream is made with only a handful of ingredients, and the best part is, you can customize with your favorite cereal and make it in a variety of flavors!
My mom has told me on multiple occasions that if she were on death row, her last meal would be Sugar Crisp (remember that cereal???) and heavy cream. She is also, like me, a huge fan of Frosted Flakes. One year, I made her a Frosted Flake ice cream cake. It was delicious, but the cereal absorbed the milk (like cereal does) and was a little soggy mixed into the ice cream. It had potential, but just wasn’t quite right.
Whenever I make a bowl of cereal (Because, yes, I totally make it. From scratch…errr box…), I always pour in extra milk so that I can drink it at the end. Please tell me you do that too?? After it’s soaked up all the sugar and starch from the cereal and is creamy and lightly sweet? It’s my favorite.
This year for Mother’s Day I decided to try cereal and ice cream together again, but this time I soaked the cereal in the milk for a couple of hours, tossed the cereal, then turned it into ICE CREAM! Do you have a favorite dessert? Mine always has and will forever be ice cream. It’s kinda tied with fro yo, but if I had the metabolism of a 16 year old boy, it would totally be ice cream. Oh and then cookies (obviously) come in that #3 slot.
My mom took one bite and told me this was the best thing I’ve ever made. She even said she wanted it again for her birthday just a few weeks later. Smooth, creamy, soft and scoopable straight out of the freezer, this ice cream is a total winner!
I used my current cereal obsession + some brown sugar for extra sweetness. I also added about a tablespoon of bourbon at the end, but that is totally optional. Alcohol does help the ice cream to stay soft and not over freeze, but with the vanilla extract in this one it should be fine without it. But honestly, in my house bourbon is never optional.
Also, a quick warning: This is not a healthy recipe. It is the real deal. Heavy cream and all. I’m not sorry. It’s worth it.
The sweet, starchy milk from the end of your cereal bowl in ICE CREAM form! This simple ice cream is made with only a handful of ingredients, and the best part is, you can customize with your favorite cereal and make it in a variety of flavors!
Ingredients
- 2 cups whole milk
- 1 1/2 cups cereal (I used Honey Rice Puffins)
- 1/3 cup brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups heavy cream
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1/4 teaspoon almond extract, optional
- 1 tablespoon bourbon (or vodka), optional
Instructions
- In a medium pot, combine whole milk and brown sugar over medium to medium-low heat. Stir constantly until sugar is melted and combined. Remove from heat.
- Pour cereal in a large bowl (a shallow bowl will work best). Pour whole milk on top. Cereal should be completely submerged. Cover and chill for 1-4 hours. Longer is better, but an hour will do the trick if you're in a hurry. Stir every hour.
- Strain milk through a fine mesh strainer. In a large bowl, combine strained milk, cream, and extracts. Cover and chill for an additional 1-2 hours or up to over night. You want the mixture to be fully chilled before transferring to your ice cream maker.
- Freeze according to ice cream maker instructions. If desired, add bourbon during the last 2-3 minutes of freezing. Transfer to freezer safe container to finish freezing completely.
did you make this because your ac was out? LOL! jk. well kinda. And now, i think we should have ice cream bar next to a cereal bar at blend next year! YUM!
Is this real life!?!?! You just combined two of my favourite things into one amazingly creamy obsession… omg I don’t know if I should hate or love you. I’m leaning towards love, but… ehhhh 😛 This looks amazing, Ari. Legit amazing.
This looks amazing!! I would eat this all the time, haha. And I definitely put a lot of milk in my cereal, Mike thinks I’m weird when I drink it.
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I could not handle this much dairy…which makes me sad. But I guess it’s a good things, because you make it look so easy to create something that I am SURE is delicious! 🙂
Hello, yum! I just did a frozen pie recipe with heavy cream . . . and I’m not sorry either!
I love this idea! I especially like drinking the cereal milk when there’s been a super yummy “kid cereal” soaking in it…something chocolate-y. 🙂
Are you kidding me? This is pure GENIUS!