I love ice cream, so naturally, come fall, I had to make some pumpkin ice cream. This recipe is similar to my blackberry cheesecake ice cream, but instead of using cream cheese, I swapped it out for non-fat vanilla Greek yogurt. If you haven’t tried Greek yogurt yet, you’re missing out—it’s super creamy, a little tangy, and has twice the protein of regular yogurt.
I’ve been wanting to make ice cream sandwiches for a while now, and this pumpkin ice cream paired perfectly with snickerdoodle cookies—my husband’s favorite. Snickerdoodles have cream of tartar, which gives them that signature zing, and when you combine that with the tangy, pumpkin cheesecake vibe of the ice cream? Double yum.
My husband said, “I didn’t think snickerdoodle cookies could get any better—but I was wrong.” I just love getting that kind of reaction to a recipe!
Let me show you how easy this one is to make.
Pumpkin Cheesecake Ice-Cream Sandwiches
3/4 cup of brown sugar
1/4 cup of granulated sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp. vanilla
1/2 cup of Greek yogurt vanilla flavor
1 cup of pumpkin puree
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. pumpkin pie spice
2 cups of heavy cream
Directions:
Step 1: Beat eggs, sugars, and vanilla together until light and fluffy.
Step 2: Add pumpkin puree, spices, and vanilla yogurt and beat. Gradually add the heavy cream until all is blended.
Step 3: Pour ingredients into ice-cream maker, follow the directions on your machine. When the ice cream is done, put it into another container and freeze until solid.
In the meantime, either bake some snickerdoodles or buy some.
Assembling the sandwiches:
Step 1: Scoop out one nice-sized round scoop of ice cream and put it on a sheet of wax paper.
Step 2: Fold over the paper and with the palm of your hand press the ice-cream down and then round out by pressing the side up evenly to round the ice cream.
Step 3: Before you put the ice cream and cookies together, put the ice cream that you flattened out back into the freezer until it is hard, about an hour or more. After the ice cream is hard, unwrap the ice cream and put a cookie on top, flip it over, peel off the wax paper, and put the other cookie on. Wrap up again in wax paper and put in a gallon-size zip lock bag and freeze until ready to eat.
Making these tonight…so excited! They look delicious!
yum, hope your family loves them.
Gorgeous!
thanks 🙂
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Thanks for the mention on your blog I looked at it and it's neat idea, I like it.
Everything about this screams yum, yum, yum! This would be such a treat for all of Fall and what a surprise for Thanksgiving!
really you should try them they are scrumptious!
MMMM. I love the idea of pumpkin and pumpkin spice ice cream! I have got to get myself an ice cream maker!! What a great post — great tasty sandwiches — great photos! Thank you so much for sharing!
Thanks so much for the nice words about my post, and yes you really need to get you a ice cream maker for these and so much more.
This is a yummy treat that my family would really enjoy.
Mimi
Ooh… yum!
🙂
ButterYum
Sounds excellent! I have an indoor ice cream maker with a container you put in the freezer. Always looking for new flavors and I'm anxious to try the Greek yogurt. Snickerdoodles… I already know how good those are!
In door ice-cream makers are great especially when it's not good weather but you still want ice-cream
Wow! Looks great. Better try this on weekend for our baking activity with my kids.
Hope you love them as much as we did 🙂
Yum! This one is so amazing! I never tried to mold ice cream by your hands. My kids will surely enjoy making this recipe of yours. Maybe I should add chocolate syrup in the fillings.
thanks Melanie, yes this would be a fun one with your kids to do, now chocolate syrup is another thing sounds messy to me. I would roll them in mini choc. chips or sprinkles for some added fun!
What a great Fall ice treat! I wish I had seen these last week, my sister was looking for something ‘frozen’ with pumpkin – I sent her blah pumpkin ice cream recipes lol