The thick, creamy ice cream that is reliably produced by this two-ingredient pudding ice cream recipe has a great commercial ice cream flavor. This dish is perfect for everyone who wishes to wow guests with little effort, including busy cooks, youngsters, older people, diabetics, and dieters.
| Prep Time: | 35 mins |
| Additional Time: | 1 hr |
| Total Time: | 1 hr 35 mins |
| Servings: | 12 |
| Yield: | 1 1/2 quarts |
Ingredients
- 1 quart half-and-half
- 1 (3.5 ounce) package instant pudding mix, any flavor
Instructions
- Place the bowl of an ice cream maker into the freezer until completely chilled, 1 hour or longer. For the last 30 minutes, place half-and-half into the freezer, shaking every 10 minutes.
- Pour chilled half-and-half into a bowl. Add pudding mix and whisk until well combined.
- Assemble the ice cream maker with the frozen bowl. Turn on the machine so the bowl is rotating. Pour pudding mixture into the machine through the hole in the lid. Allow ice cream to process until desired consistency is reached, about 30 minutes.
- Serve immediately. If serving later, freeze in individual containers as it may become difficult to scoop after freezing. (This recipe makes excellent frozen pudding popsicles.)
- This recipe has been tested in a Cuisinart 2-quart electric ice cream maker, the kind where you freeze the bowl overnight and do not need ice or salt. Always keep the bowl ready in the freezer. Chilling ingredients, utensils, and serving dishes is optional but helpful in warm weather.
- The actual final volume depends on how hard you let the ice cream get before serving because it will expand as it freezes.
- Modifications will change the flavor and consistency somewhat, but they still produce excellent ice cream.
Nutrition Facts
| Calories | 111 kcal |
| Carbohydrate | 6 g |
| Cholesterol | 29 mg |
| Dietary Fiber | 0 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | 6 g |
| Sodium | 83 mg |
| Sugars | 3 g |
| Fat | 9 g |
| Unsaturated Fat | 0 g |
Reviews
I recommend using extract or vodka. It helps with the final product’s consistency, making it easier to scoop. I have also used commercially prepared pudding in the same manner and that works, also. Good recipe – thanks!
There’s a few reviews saying it was bland or slimy, I didn’t have that issue at all. I used the full 3.5 ounces of instant pudding mix (2 boxes sugar free chocolate fudge and one sugar free cheesecake which was 1 oz), full fat half and half and a dash of almond extract. I only had 30 oz of half and half so I subbed 2 oz of heavy cream. Mixed it well before putting into my Cuisinart self chilling I’ve cream maker. 35 minutes later, I have silky delicious keto icecream. Very very sweet, can’t tell it’s sugar free and a small serving was very satisfying. Think about your ingredients, use full fat liquid and you’ll love it.
Tasted like frozen instant pudding. If I were to go through the effort to use my ice cream machine I’ll make real ice cream. It’s just as easy but tastes much better.
I used Oreo pudding mix and added crushed mint Oreos at the end of churning. The mint added the extra sweetness and flavor it was otherwise lacking. I will use this recipe again with different flavors, tweaking as necessary. It is a quick easy way to make flavored ice cream.
Quick, easy, and versatile. The flavor of the pudding was not very strong. Less fat would allow flavor to come through better maybe. Trying milk next time.
I used the store brand chocolate pudding mix, and the only change was to add a little chocolate syrup. It definitely has a pudding flavor (surprise!) and the texture at 5 degrees F is like granite, but let it sit out until it’s about 12 degrees F and it’s just right – creamy and silky. As it warms further, it becomes very pudding like. I’d have given it 4 stars, but I wanted to offset the unrealistic 1 star review. You’re just making pudding with twice the half and half instead of milk, so if it had a bad flavor, I’d blame one of the ingredients, not the recipe.
It didn’t work for us at all. I made exactly as written with vanilla Jell-O brand pudding. The texture is slimy and it leaves an awful aftertaste. I really wanted to like this, sorry.