I hope you all had a great Cinco de Mayo yesterday! It was an especially exciting day for me because I officially hit the 26 week mark! Whoop whoop! I am almost in my third trimester! We celebrated yesterday with chicken fajitas, and these tasty horchata ice cream sandwiches for dessert! Have you ever made ice cream sandwiches at home? It’s pretty simple and tasty! Keep reading for my homemade horchata ice cream recipe, as well as how to make your own homemade ice cream sandwiches! Some links contain affiliates, all opinions are my own.
making homemade ice cream
We have heavy cream in the fridge I wanted to be sure to use, and I thought Cinco de Mayo was the perfect excuse to try making horchata ice cream again! I first tried this a little over a year ago, and it was fine, but I knew I could do better.
Can I just say really quickly how much I love our Cuisinart ice cream maker?! I don’t often use stand-alone kitchen gadgets, but when I do… it’s because they’re AWESOME.
homemade horchata ice cream sandwiches
This ice cream recipe is the same basic foundation as my toasted almond ice cream and my triple peanut butter ice cream, and you can get the recipe here. The super secret simple is the horchata mix that you add in.
But don’t go anywhere yet, I promised you homemade ice cream sandwiches! You’ll want to follow this cookie recipe but using a French vanilla cake mix, gave me the cookie for these tasty horchata ice cream sandwiches. Again, don’t make the cake mix as per directions on the box, use the recipe in the link above!
To make these more like ice cream sandwiches I rolled the mix out flat between two sheets of parchment paper, then used a rectangle container I had as a cookie cutter once the sheet had completely cooled.
Making them this way, I was able to easily make 6 ice cream sandwiches, with plenty of ice cream leftover as well. You want to make sure that you make the cookies first and they have a chance to cool, because you’ll want to spread the ice cream on before it set up hard in the freezer.
This horchata ice cream pairs perfectly with these easy homemade ice cream sandwiches!
- 1 cup milk, well chilled
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- 3 tbsp dry horchata mix
- 2 cups heavy cream, well chilled
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- dash cinnamon, to taste
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Whisk the milk, granulated sugar, and horchata mix together until all is dissolved. Stir in the heavy cream and vanilla extract.
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Turn on your ice cream maker and pour the mixture in. Once the ice cream is pretty well set up (near the end of the cycle) sprinkle in the cinnamon.
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Once the ice cream maker is finished, allow the ice cream to continue hardening in the freezer for a couple hours, or eat soft serve as is.
Of course I just had to add the sprinkles for fun, plus my kids are obsessed with sprinkles. But really, who isn’t?
why make homemade horchata ice cream sandwiches?
I don’t want you to look at this and think, “Great, but I’m never going to go through the trouble of making my own ice cream, and then my own cookies to turn them into ice cream sandwiches.” Totally a thought I’ve had before, but I promise you, these really are super simple and don’t take as long as they may look like they take!
Also, I should mention that these are 100% kid and husband approved. I was a pretty big fan myself.
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23 comments
What??? This sounds amazing!!!! I've never made homemade ice cream before but I think I'm going to try. 🙂
stop.it.right.now! those looks so delicious 🙂
oh my gosh, this looks amazing. I have to make this over the weekend!
This sounds soooo good! I love that you used cake mix for the sandwich part!!!
Horchata is so delicious, this is a genius idea! How perfect for Cinco de Mayo too!
Oh my gosh, your ice cream creations make me want to run out and buy an ice cream maker, like yesterday! Way to take advantage of a pregnant lady's weakness 😉 These seriously look amazing.
Those sound and look delicious!!! I NEED an ice cream maker in my life!!!
I love Horchata – so those ice cream sandwiches sound amazing!
I've never heard of Horchata ice cream! But it looks delicious!
~Jessica
Jeans and a Teacup
You totally should buy one! It's so much fun toake your own ice cream. 🙂
Buy one Kassi…. it'll change your life. 😉
Makes these pretty easy to make Amanda, and I'm all about keeping things simple. 😉
It's so fun Susannah, and so delicious!
I hope you do and I hope you enjoy! 🙂
Those look delicious! I have never heard of horchata before but I will be looking into it now. Love the sprinkles too!
Oh wow! Those look awesome!!!~Haley
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k WHAT those look freaking delicious. and Horchata is so so delicious. so obviously I need to make this 🙂
xo, Candace | Lovely Little Rants
They are really good, I can't believe I've had the willpower to only eat one… we still have three in the fridge (although, after tonight we probably won't)!
You should try some horchata! My son LOVES it, as long as you like cinnamon sugar, you''ll love it! And thanks, sprinkles make everything better!
I absolutely love this ice cream sandwich idea. We never knew there was any other way to enjoy this treat than the way we make them. I buy the store brand of waffles and heat them in the toaster. Then we slap on a few scoops of ice cream and press tight. That is how we have always enjoyed our ice cream.
Diane Baker @ Alejandra's Restaurant
That sounds awesome! My kids would love that, thanks for the tip!