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Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream

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This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It’s like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. 😉 High-fives all around!

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around! ice cream, churro, cinnamon

This Cinnamon Ice Cream is filled with sweet dulce de leche and crunchy cinnamon sugar pieces that almost makes this homemade ice cream recipe taste like a churro ice cream!

 

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around! ice cream, churro, cinnamon

One summer back in college, I worked at a summer camp in the mountains. I worked mainly with the junior highers at their “convenience store,” which was a cabin in the center of their camp filled with the camp essentials: Jones soda, ice cream sandwiches, potato chips, and candy–lots and lots of candy.

During their free time, the kids would come in, spend obscene amounts of money on all the sugar, and tell me alllll about their day over a soda or an ice cream sandwich.

One girl even asked to borrow my clothes because hers, and I quote, “went missing.”

So. Many. Questions. (Like, where do I even begin??)

Junior highers are funny (and sometimes strange) kids.

But, they’re pretty lovable, especially when they were explaining how they “took down the Adventure Mountain Sundae.”

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around! ice cream, churro, cinnamon

The Adventure Mountain Sundae was this monstrosity of an ice cream sundae that the snack shop sold. It had something like 12 scoops of ice cream, which were huge, whipped cream everywhere, chocolate syrup, and giant chocolate chip cookies pressed to the outside of the ice cream. Like I said, a monstrosity.

It was a big deal to the boys; almost like a rite of passage.

Now, the thought of downing that much ice cream kind of makes me feel sick, but the boys? Oh, they were a different story. They would come back to the store complaining about how full they felt all the while purchasing more soda, candy, and chips.

The metabolisms of boys are astounding.

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around! ice cream, churro, cinnamon

Even though I can’t take down a 12-scoop sundae, I can definitely–definitely–take down a few scoops of this churro inspired ice cream.

It’s the perfect Cinco de Mayo dessert! Or anytime dessert, really. It’s cinnamon ice cream with cinnamon crunch bits and swirls of dulce de leche.

It’s unreal. And the cinnamon crunch bits taste just like the outside of a churro! No kidding.

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around! ice cream, churro, cinnamon

Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream Recipe Tips & Tricks:

  • This homemade ice cream recipe does require an ice cream maker. It’s my pride and joy (the ice cream maker, not this ice cream) and it was one of my favorite “fun” kitchen tool splurges!
  • The cinnamon sugar bits are sweet! But, that’s what makes them sooo delish. Plus, they really do taste like the outside of a churro (which, while this might be slightly blasphemous, is my favorite part of the churro ).
  • This cinnamon ice cream recipe calls for both half & half and heavy cream. If you are out of half & half, you can make it yourself (it’s half milk, half cream).

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good.

I’ll take that scoop with a side of two more scoops.

 

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around!
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Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream
Prep Time
4 hrs 20 mins
Cook Time
15 mins
Total Time
4 hrs 35 mins
 
This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good. High-fives all around!
Course: Dessert
Cuisine: American
Keyword: Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream
Servings: 1 Quart (about)
Author: Michelle
Ingredients
Cinnamon Crunch Bits
  • 1 Tbsp butter, melted
  • 1/4 cup sugar plus 2 Tbsp
  • 1/2 tsp ground cinnamon
Ice Cream
  • 2 cups heavy cream
  • 1 cup half & half
  • 1/2 cup brown sugar
  • 2 tsp vanilla extract
  • 1/2 tbsp ground cinnamon
  • pinch of salt
  • 1/4-1/2 cup dulce de leche
Instructions
  1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Mix sugar, cinnamon, and melted butter together. Spread the mixture on a parchment-lined baking sheet in a thin, even layer and bake for 15-20 minutes, or until crisp. Set aside and allow to cool. Once cooled, break into bite-sized pieces.
  2. In a bowl, mix heavy cream, half and half, brown sugar, vanilla extract, cinnamon, and salt together. Pour into a chilled ice cream maker, and follow the directions of your ice cream maker.
  3. Once the ice cream has thickened and is almost finished (for my ice cream maker it was about 20 minutes), drizzle in 1/4 to 1/2 cup dulce de leche, depending upon your preference. Next, add in cinnamon sugar pieces.
  4. If you like your ice cream soft-serve, eat it right away, or store in an airtight container for 3-4 hours in the freezer.
  5. Enjoy!

 

This homemade Cinnamon Dulce de Leche Ice Cream is filled with homemade cinnamon crunch bits and swirled with dulce de leche! It's like eating a churro in ice cream form. Cinco de Mayo dessert has never tasted this good.

Here are some other ice cream recipes I love:

Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream

No Churn Brownie Batter Ice Cream

 

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Comments

  1. Sam @ PancakeWarriors says

    April 30, 2015 at 7:54 pm

    This sounds fantastic – I love anythingc cinnamon – and it’s certainly time to start getting the icecream maker out!!

    Reply
  2. Kirsten says

    May 1, 2015 at 5:31 am

    Michelle,
    I’ve made cinnamon ice cream before by steeping the cream in cassia chunks (because I bought cassia chunks and what else can I do with them?) but never thought to kick it up like this. [Full disclosure, I thought to stuff it inside snickerdoodle cinnamon ice cream sandwiches. It was as amazing as I’d hoped.]
    However, I adore ice cream with chunks and swirls in it, and the sight of this ice cream is making me rather hungry. That’s a mean feat considering I’m just finishing a smoothie!
    Thanks!

    Reply
  3. Tara says

    May 1, 2015 at 7:05 pm

    OMG this is brilliant! I’d love to try this!

    Reply
  4. Destinee says

    May 1, 2015 at 7:06 pm

    Ooh I bet this would be great with an iced coffee!

    Reply
  5. Hailey says

    May 1, 2015 at 7:07 pm

    Wow! This looks incredible! I’m so trying tomorrow!

    Reply
  6. Thalia @ butter and brioche says

    May 1, 2015 at 7:34 pm

    This ice cream must taste SO delicious. I love the burnt caramelised taste of dulce de leche and can imagine that the spice of cinnamon compliments it so perfectly.

    Reply
  7. Chrissy says

    May 2, 2015 at 7:52 am

    I just made some of this too! But the cheater, no churn version. Heaven. I love your cinnamon crunch bits- I’ll definitely be adding those next time.

    Reply
  8. Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says

    May 4, 2015 at 4:34 am

    Oh this looks fantastic, Michelle! I love the cinnamon and dulce de leche flavors! Sounds a tasty combo!

    Reply
  9. Sarah @Whole and Heavenly Oven says

    May 4, 2015 at 5:14 am

    Haha! I totally don’t get how my brothers can eat so much sweet, calorie-loaded stuff and not get fat either! Not fair if you ask me! LOL. But this ice cream? I’m pretty sure it’s just worth the calories. I love all those chunks of dulce de leche!

    Reply
  10. Nora @ Savory Nothings says

    May 5, 2015 at 9:57 am

    Haha, my brother spent a few days with us one time. He kept eating cookies and chocolate all day long and then I kid you not – he ate about a pound of pasta for dinner. NO idea where they put it all! Yumyumyum, I don’t think I could eat a pound of this cinnamon dulche de leche ice cream, but I’d get VERRRY close!

    Reply
  11. Kelly - Life Made Sweeter says

    May 5, 2015 at 11:38 pm

    It’s amazing how much boys can eat without gaining an ounce. This sounds incredible! Ice cream is my favorite treat and I love the flavors in here! The cinnamon crunch bites are such a tasty idea!

    Reply
  12. Dianne Blane says

    May 8, 2016 at 3:19 am

    This was as amazing as it looked and is now a family favourite. I tweeked it a bit by adding egg yolks as I prefer a creamy custard base.

    Reply

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