Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream

Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream has a rich and creamy no churn cream cheese base swirled with strawberry puree, chunks of fresh strawberry, and crushed up graham crackers. It is the perfect simple but delicious dessert for those warm summer days!

Course Dessert

Cuisine American

Prep Time 20

Resting Time 12

Total Time 12 20

Servings servings

Calories 342kcal

Author Ellie Haley

Ingredients

For Cream Cheese Ice Cream Base:

14 ounce can sweetened condensed milk
4 ounces cream cheese room temperature
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
pinch of salt
2 cups heavy cream cold

For Filling:

2 cups strawberries
6 sheets graham crackers

Instructions

In a large bowl with a hand mixer beat together the sweetened condensed milk, cream cheese, vanilla, and salt. Set aside.
In a medium bowl with a hand mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer, beat the cold heavy cream until stiff peaks form. Keeping the cream cold until you are ready to use it will help it to whip up much easier.
Fold about ¼ of the whipped cream into the cream cheese mixture. This will lighten up the cream cheese mixture and help it fold easier into the rest of the whipped cream. Then fold in the rest of the whipped cream. Place the bowl in the freezer for 3 to 4 hours.
Blend one cup of the strawberries until smooth.
Dice the other cup of strawberries.
Roughly crush the graham crackers.
Remove the ice cream mixture from the freezer and stir well. Add all of the blended strawberries, most of the diced strawberries, and most of the crushed graham crackers. You want to save some of each of these to place on top before freezing. Stir to combine.
Pour the mixture into a dish, I used a bread pan. Sprinkle the remaining diced strawberries and crushed graham crackers on top. Place the dish in the freezer for at least 8 hours, ideally overnight. Remove the ice cream from the freezer and allow to sit at room temperature for 5-10 minutes before scooping.

Notes

Don't over whip the heavy cream. Whip the cream just to stiff peaks, any further could cause the cream to be gritty.
The provided nutrition information is an estimate. The calorie accuracy is not guaranteed.

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