Red, White and Blue Ice Cream
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The perfect treat to serve and celebrate for Patriotic red, white and blue holidays! This easy recipe for red, white and blue ice cream has won rave reviews in our home! Only 3 ingredients to this no-churn ice cream and a few mix-ins and you’ll be making your own red, white and blue frozen treat!
I love our country and this year for the 4th of July, I whipped up, yup, literally and figuratively this beautiful Red, White and Blue Ice Cream!
If you love some red, white and blue treats, then try these festive Ice Cream Sandwich Cookies, or these healthier, Red, White and Blueberry Yogurt Parfaits, or this beautiful Red, White & Blueberry Cocktail.
Why You Will Love Patriotic Ice Cream
- No Churn means it’s ready to go into the freezer in minutes! Just 3 ingredients, no ice cream machine necessary!
- Fun, festive and has all your favorite patriotic colors — RED, WHITE & BLUE!
- Easy if you can whip whipped cream, you can make this ice cream!
Studded with red and blue m&m’s along with white chocolate chips and KAPOW! SHAZAM! ZOINKS!
I personally think ice cream is still better from the ice cream maker vs. no churn, but you cannot beat no churn ice cream for a quick, low cost, E-A-S-Y, no bake dessert. Simply whip this up ahead of time, freeze overnight and you will have people screaming for ice cream.
Which by the way — my people; more specifically my man-children; LOVE this ice cream and my other no churn ice cream Circus Animal No Churn Ice Cream or try this Rose Ice Cream recipe.
Our oldest informed me (while shoveling spoonfuls of ice cream into his mouth), that I should make TONS of this ice cream and open a shop! From the mouth of teens!
Basic Vanilla No Churn Ice Cream Recipe
Simple Ingredients
- Heavy cream, whipped (I used organic)
- Sweetened condensed milk (I used organic)
- Vanilla extract or paste, I used Vanilla Bean Paste
- red, white and blue M&M’s (or sort out red and blue, about 1/3 of a cup)
- White chocolate chips (I used Ghirardelli)
How to make Red, White and Blue Ice Cream
Simply whip your whipping cream until stiff peaks form, then slowly pour in your sweetened condensed milk and vanilla, mix until combined and pour into a standard 9×5 loaf pan or storage container.
If using mixins, stir in and then smooth into the loaf pan.
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The M&M’s will bleed, but that’s kind of the beauty of the ice cream. Don’t stir them in too long, you want them to freeze with the streaks of colors. Unless you want to turn your ice cream blue, or red ice cream, then stir until your hearts content!
Freeze until solid, serve alone, or top with this Bourbon Caramel Vanilla Sauce or Rich & Chewy Hot Fudge or maybe this gorgeous blueberry syrup!
Red, white and blue ice cream (no churn!)
I couldn’t find Red, White and Blue M&M’s this year, so I resorted to using a package of mini M&M’s and sorting out the red and blue ones, then thought, I should toss in white chocolate chips for the white! Tada! A legend is born, okay — maybe not, but I guarantee two things: 1. It’s SO EASY and 2. It’s SO delicious!
Variations & Mix-in Ideas
By the way, mix in anything you want! The basic vanilla recipe is included, be creative, here are thoughts I’ve had.
- Chopped Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups or Reese’s Pieces
- Rich Chewy Hot Fudge Swirled and maybe chocolate chips
- Butterscotch chips with some Bourbon Caramel Vanilla sauce swirled in.
- Fresh summer fruits!! Slice strawberries, peaches, mangoes and more. Stir in blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and cherries (pits removed please)
- Chopped Andes Mints, 1/2-1 teaspoon mint extract and maybe a swirl of hot fudge.
- 1-2 Tablespoons Espresso Powder, Toasted Almonds and Chocolate Fudge (drooling!)
- Stir in 1/2 cup Lemon Curd or 6 tablespoons lemon juice plus 2 teaspoons lemon zest
- 1-3 Tablespoons cinnamon and swirl in 1/3 cup dulche de leche
Frequently Asked Question
If you want the base of this ice cream to be all blue, stir in the blue m&m’s only or a touch of blue food coloring and stir until desired color, then decorate finished blue ice cream with red, white and blue m&m’s and sprinkles.
Also called Blue Moon Ice cream, Smurf’s ice cream is a delicious creamy ice cream that is tinted bright Smurf blue and traditionally it has marshmallow in the ice cream too.
Hopefully this will get your creative juices going! Just think of your favorite ice creams and mix it in! And in case this recipe didn’t float your boat, check the following recipes out!
Looking for more cool, summertime treats?
- Chocolate Brownie Fudge Ice Cream | cool, creamy, chocolatey and fudgy!
- Mile High Mud Pie Ice Cream Cake
- The Best Key Lime Pie Recipe (thousands have made and saved this recipe!)
- Old Fashioned Chocolate Ice Cream
- Old Fashioned Vanilla Ice Cream
- Fried Ice Cream Cake
- Copycat Chick-Fil-A Frosted Lemonade
- Best Banana Pudding Magnolia Bakery Copycat
- Lemon Icebox Pie with Golden Oreo Crust
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Equipment
Ingredients
Basic Vanilla No Churn Ice Cream
- 2 cups heavy cream whipped (I used organic)
- 14 ounce sweetened condensed milk (I used organic)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract or paste I used Vanilla Bean Paste
Patriotic Ice Cream
- 1/3 cup or 1/2 package Red White and Blue M&M’s
- 1/2 package White Chocolate Chips I used Ghirardelli
Instructions
- Simply whip your whipping cream until stiff peaks form, then slowly pour in your sweetened condensed milk, vanilla and any mix in’s until combined (about 45 seconds).
- Spread into a standard 9×5 loaf pan or storage container, smoothing out and freezing until firm at least 6 hours, preferably overnight.
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What a genius idea; definitely making this during Fourth of July! The family will be all over it.
Thanks so much! Great for the 4th!
What a brilliant and simple idea to celebrate 4th of July! And I am sure everyone will enjoy this ice cream! Perfect for us too, as our ice cream maker stopped working a few days ago, so really keen to try this no-churn recipe 🙂
This is perfect for you then!
Looks so beautiful. A perfect treat for the 4th of July.
Yes!
This is so fun! Can’t wait to make again for the 4th!
Yay!!
My kiddos love making ice cream so i’m glad they can make this on their own! We love to add the Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups too! Fun & festive!
Yes, Reese’s would be so great in this!
The perfect treat for 4th of july. Pinned. Thanks for sharing.
Yes it sure is!
Okay, you had me at 3 minutes. Who am I kidding? You had me at ice cream. I love how simple this is to make and the fact that you don’t need an ice cream maker to do it. Add in the festive patriotic touches, and this is a winner in my book!
Haha, love it! It’s certainly a winner!
Such a fun and delicious dessert to celebrate! I love how you made the ice cream base no churn. So easy!
Thank you!
Love this festive, no churn recipe!!! We were all about the sprinkles over here!!!!
Yes, the sprinkles make it!
This is such a festively fun sweet treat! 🙂 This would be perfect for the summer holidays.
It is indeed!