Making ice cream can seem daunting or expensive. Granted the ingredients (mostly the heavy cream) are not inexpensive but the flavors you can make at home will win you over! If you ever want to have a bit of ice cream inspiration you can always head over to my business page where you can see all of the Ice Cream Flavors I make for my clients. I dare you to find most of those in your grocery store! 🙂
When it comes to equipment to make your ice cream there are a huge number of options. I have three ice cream makers (of course I have a ton of kitchen gadgets, my friends joke my house looks like a Williams-Sonoma store that collided with a Toys R Us) including a fancy gelato maker, a standalone Cuisinart and a Kitchenaid Stand Mixer attachment. For purely lazy reasons alone I usually use my fancy gelato maker because it is self freezing and I don’t have to stash a bowl in the freezer. I’ve even seen some awesomely creative people make ice cream with bags of salt and ziploc bags of custard shaken together. Either way, if you have an interest in ice cream just do a quick Google search and you’ll find a great tool at your disposal. Most of my clients who would ask for my recommendation ended up buying the Cuisinart one.
Mix the brown sugar, oats, raisins and cinnamon in a bowl together. 
Mix the milk, cream and cake mix together.
Add in the dry oat mixture until well combined.
Put in ice cream maker and make to your machine’s specifications. Freeze for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight. 
Or you know, you could always serve it with some delicious Homemade Salted Caramel Sauce. Just an idea of course! 😉 
Cold Stone Inspired Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Batter Ice Cream (No Cook)
Ingredients
- 2 cups half and half
- 1 cup 2% milk (This is what we have on hand for our toddler, use any milk you may have, even non-fat)
- 1/2 cup brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 3/4 cup white cake mix
- 1/2 cup regular oats
- 1/2 cup raisins
- 2 teaspoons cinnamon
Instructions
- Mix the brown sugar, oats, raisins and cinnamon in a bowl together.
- Mix the milk, cream and cake mix together, then add in the dry oat mixture until well combined.
- Put in ice cream maker and make to your machine's specifications.
Freeze for at least 4 hours, preferably overnight.
Recipe Notes
Adapted heavily from Food.com
Not a fan of raisins? I have made this ice cream with peanut butter chips instead. Also chocolate chips of course! If you would make it in a cookie you could substitute it in here easily too! For the holidays last year I swapped out raisins for cranberries and the cinnamon for pumpkin pie spice. CRAVEABLE!
Psst…want something chocolatey instead? Check out my Super Dark Chocolate Stracciatella Ice Cream 🙂 You can thank me later!
Can I leave out the cake mix? Or would I need to substitute something else for consistency purposes, do you think? I know it wouldn’t be cake batter flavored but that’s ok with us. Oatmeal raisin anything is my husband’s favorite! Thanks!
Sorry this comment took so long to get to, it ended up in my spam filter somehow! Sorry I just found a huge number of comments over the last three months that was snared in the spam filter and I am trying to follow up with each one now even though in your case I am way too late to help. It isn’t for consistency so much as for the flavor. It adds the “cookie” flavor to the ice cream. Otherwise it would taste more like cinnamon raisin ice cream. Hope that helps, sorry again for the crazy delay in responding.
Thanks so much for responding! I did make the recipe without the cake mix, but I added a teaspoon of butter extract as a substitute to mimic the “cookie” flavor. It worked wonderfully, and was a huge hit with my husband and kids!
So glad it worked out!
The ice cream looks really good. I would not have thought to add the cake mix.
Oh yes, you’d never guess how amazing it comes out. Just like licking the bowl of cake batter without the pesky raw eggs.
I’ve never made homemade ice cream before, but would love to try sometime. That looks and sounds delicious!
Thanks!
Omg, that looks so yummy! I am drooling on my keyboard right now. I have to make this. On another note, I would really like my own gelato maker!
I LOVE my gelato maker. The only down side to it is the weight. It is like carrying one of those old tube tvs that you just don’t understand how it could be so heavy. Like the entire inside is made of cast iron or something.
This looks so amazing. Perfect for that hot summer weather and much cheaper than cold stone.
Thanks! yes! much. I cheated a bit and added a melted butter, graham cracker crumb mixture to the top and make it even more ridiculous when I was making a cheesecake and had some extra crust mix left over.
Wow this looks amazing! I bet you guys ate it up real fast too!
Oh yes!
We have an ice cream maker and I am so trying this! My husband will love it since he loves making ice cream. 🙂
Awesome! I hope you love it! Don’t forget the salted caramel sauce with it!