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A waffle cone of No Churn Cinnamon Toast Crunch Ice Cream in a white bowl.

No-Churn Cinnamon Toast Crunch Ice Cream

Cinnamon Toast Crunch, butter, sweetened condensed milk, and heavy cream are some of the mouthwatering ingredients in this no-churn cinnamon toast crunch ice cream. This recipe is crunchy, creamy, and definitely a bundle of happy flavors!
Yield: 6 cups
Prep Time: 30 minutes
Cook Time: 5 minutes
Total Time: 6 hours 35 minutes
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Ingredients

For The Ice Cream Base

  • 4 cups cinnamon toast crunch cereal
  • 4 cups heavy whipping cream
  • 1 14 ounces can sweetened condensed milk
  • 1.5 teaspoon cinnamon
  • 2 teaspoons vanilla extract

For The Cinnamon Crunch

  • 3 cups cinnamon toast crunch cereal
  • ¼ cup sugar
  • 1 tablespoon butter

For The Cinnamon Sugar Swirl

  • 3 tablespoons butter melted
  • 3 tablespoons brown sugar
  • 1.5 teaspoon cinnamon

Instructions

  • Soak cereal in heavy whipping cream for at least 30 minutes or up to overnight. Once soaked, take a strainer and place it over a medium sized bowl to strain out your heavy whipping cream from the cereal and discard the soaked cereal. Be sure to use a spatula and press the cereal down to get ALL of the liquid out! You should end up with TWO CUPS of heavy whipping cream (If you don’t soak your cereal overnight you may have a bit more than 2 cups; we will only be using 2 cups for this recipe)
  • While your cereal and heavy whipping cream are soaking you can go ahead and prepare the cereal that will be mixed into the ice cream base. Take your 3 cups of cereal and place it in a large pan with 1/4 cup of sugar and 1 tbsp butter. Bring to medium heat and heat this until the sugar and butter melt. Be sure to continually toss it as you heat it and get it all mixed in there and evenly coated! Once evenly coated with melted butter & sugar remove from heat and allow to cool fully! (this will take only a few minutes, 3-5!) Once fully cooled reserve a few full pieces to add on top then you’ll use your hands to crush the cereal into smaller pieces
  • Note: if you cook this too long it will burn. You just want everything to melt and then toss to coat! You’ll begin to smell burnt sugar if you cook it too long, just remove from heat immediately and continue to stir if this happens.
  • Now you can prepare your cinnamon swirl. Simply combine the cinnamon swirl ingredients (melted butter, brown sugar and cinnamon) to a bowl. Allow this to cool fully!
  • To prepare the ice cream base pour your 2 cups of cereal soaked heavy whipping cream into a large bowl or stand mixer. Begin to mix on low then slowly increase speed. Mix for ~3 minutes until stiff peaks form and you’ve made whipped cream! 
  • In a separate large bowl combine sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract and cinnamon. Mix it well.
  • Gently fold in your whipped cream to the sweetened condensed milk mixture. Do not stir this vigorously! You don’t want to reduce the air in the whipped cream. Mix this for ~2-3 minutes until totally uniform and no lumps of whipped cream are present.
  • Reserve ½ cup of the crushed cinnamon toast crunch (put this with the full pieces- this will be your topping!) and add the rest  of your crushed cinnamon toast crunch pieces to the ice cream base and fold it in.
  • Now it’s time to assemble the ice cream! Add ⅓ of the ice cream base to the container (a baking loaf pan works great!) then place ⅓ of the cinnamon swirl on top in a few dollops and use a knife to swirl it. Repeat with remaining ⅔ (you’ll end on the cinnamon swirl!)
  • Top with the remaining crushed cereal as well as the whole pieces that you reserved
  • You want to have a good amount on top so that you can tell “Oh! This is cinnamon toast crunch cereal ice cream!” but not enough so you can’t SEE any of the ice cream base! Be sure there are some reserved whole pieces so that yo you can clearly tell it’s cinnamon toast crunch cereal!
  • Freeze for 6-8 hours and enjoy!

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Nutrition Facts

Nutrition Facts
No-Churn Cinnamon Toast Crunch Ice Cream
Serving Size
 
1 g
Amount per Serving
Calories
474
% Daily Value*
Fat
 
36
g
55
%
Saturated Fat
 
22
g
138
%
Trans Fat
 
1
g
Polyunsaturated Fat
 
12
g
Cholesterol
 
104
mg
35
%
Sodium
 
206
mg
9
%
Carbohydrates
 
35
g
12
%
Fiber
 
2
g
8
%
Sugar
 
24
g
27
%
Protein
 
5
g
10
%
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2000 calorie diet.