Over the years we've collected many recipes that incorporate our great tasting ice cream.


Apple Cream Crumble

Crust:
1 ¼ cups cinnamon sugar graham crackers, crushed
6 tablespoons melted butter

Filling:
1 can apple pie filling 
1 qt. Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream, softened

Combine graham cracker crumbs with melted butter, mixing thoroughly.  Sprinkle half of the crumb mixture in bottom of 8"x8"x2" cake pan.  Alternate layers of ice cream and apple filling, ending with ice cream and crumbs on top.  Freeze until firm.  Makes 6 generous servings.

Turtle Pecan Pie

3 cups chocolate wafer crumbs
½ cup butter or margarine, melted
1¼ cups semisweet chocolate morsels
1 cup evaporated milk
1 cup miniature marshmallows
1/8 teaspoon salt
2 pints Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
1 cup pecan halves, toasted

Combine chocolate crumbs and butter; firmly press into a 9-inch, deep-dish pie plate, and freeze 15 minutes.  Combine chocolate morsels and next 3 ingredients in a heavy saucepan.  Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened and smooth.  Remove from heat, and set aside.  Spread 2 cups ice cream into prepared pie plate; cover and freeze 30 minutes.  Pour half of chocolate mixture over ice cream layer; cover and freeze 30 minutes.  Spread remaining ice cream over chocolate mixture; cover and freeze 30 minutes.  Spread remaining chocolate mixture over ice cream, and top with pecans.  Cover and freeze.  Yield: one 9-inch pie.

Cranberry Ice-Cream Squares

1 pound Oreo cookies (about 42)
2 pints Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream
1½ cups whole-cranberry sauce
1 tablespoon Grand Marnier or other orange-flavored liqueur, if desired

In a food processor grind the cookies fine and pat half the cookie crumbs firmly into the bottom of a 9-inch square baking pan lined with plastic wrap.  In the large bowl of an electric mixer beat the ice cream with the paddle attachment until it is softened, add the cranberry sauce and the Grand Marnier, and beat the mixture until it is just combined.  Spread the ice cream mixture over the crust, sprinkle the top with the remaining cookie crumbs, and pat the cookie crumbs to make them adhere.  Freeze the mixture, covered, for 6 hours, or until it is firm, invert a platter over the pan, and invert the pan onto the platter.  Unmold the dessert onto the platter, discarding the plastic wrap, and cut it into squares with a serrated knife.

Shortbread Cookie Cake

1 pkg. shortbread cookies
1 stick margarine, melted
2 cups milk
2 pkg. Instant pudding (vanilla or chocolate)
1 qt. Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla Ice Cream (softened)
1 pkg. Dream Whip
2 Heath Bars

Crush cookies, then add margarine.  Mix well.  Press into 13"X9" pan.  In a bowl, combine milk and instant pudding, blend well.  Add ice cream to pudding mixture.  Pour over cookie crust and top with prepared Dream Whip.  Crush Heath Bars and sprinkle over the top.  Refrigerate.

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