Cookie dough ice cream is a frozen dessert made by mixing raw cookie dough chunks into a vanilla ice cream base. It can be made at home or purchased in stores, and the ingredients and preparation methods vary. The first known cookie dough ice cream was created by Ben & Jerry’s in Vermont in 1984 and has since become a popular flavor. Store-bought versions may contain additional ingredients like oils, while homemade versions typically use a custard base.
Cookie dough ice cream is a frozen treat made with frozen cream or milk. Raw cookie dough chunks are mixed into the ice cream. It can be made in a home ice cream shop, shop, or manufactured. Cookie dough is prepared separately from ice cream, usually before or during the freezing process. The ingredients and preparation methods vary somewhat from the earliest known recipes such as the Ben & Jerry’s version created in a Scoop Shop in Vermont in the mid-1980s.
Cookie dough mix is typically made with a combination of butter, sugar or brown sugar, and flour, plus eggs, vanilla, and add-ons like chocolate chips or nuts. The dough is typically prepared, refrigerated, and mixed into baked ice cream or used as a topping. Variations in dietary or lifestyle restrictions may include, for example, the use of spelled or millet flour for gluten-free doughs or artificial sweeteners for sugar-free doughs.
Cookie dough ice cream typically has a vanilla base, although other flavors may be used, especially in homemade versions of the treat. As with all ice cream, the quality and taste vary depending on the type of ingredients used. Super premium ice cream, for example, uses high-quality ingredients like real sugar instead of high fructose corn syrup. It also has a higher fat content and uses fewer emulsifying agents than premium or standard ice cream.
Store-bought cookie dough ice cream may contain additional ingredients, depending on the brand and quality. Cookie dough ice cream may contain oils, such as partially hydrogenated or pressed oil from the expeller. Hydrogenated oils are liquid fats chemically modified to become semi-solid. The highest quality ice cream typically has an expeller pressed oil that is only mechanically refined. Homemade ice cream may not have oil at all, using butter instead.
Homemade ice cream is typically created by making a custard with butter, eggs, sugar, and milk. Heavy cream and extracts are also used. Methods of mixing and heating for custard vary, with ice baths being used in some recipes. Ingredients can also be added in various orders, depending on the recipe. The custard is chilled and then frozen in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions.
The first well-known cookie ice cream was created by a Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop in Burlington, Vermont in 1984. The shop had a flavor suggestion board, and an unknown guest put down chocolate chip cookie dough . Chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream was available as a homemade flavor at the store until Ben & Jerry’s introduced it in a pint in 1990. The flavor’s popularity continued into the 21st century, with other companies and stores adding they followed suit, offering cookie dough in ice cream itself or as an add-on.
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