No churn Nutella ice cream

Is there anything better than Nutella? How about a no churn Nutella ice cream that’s super easy to make and has only four ingredients? Cha ching!

Most ice creams made without a churner use sweetened condensed milk, such as my no churn vanilla ice cream. This recipe uses cream cheese instead. I find the cream cheese here gives it a smoother texture that’s less likely to become icy. The trade off here is the ice cream becomes more crumbly and less scoop-able, but still delicious!

To make the no churn Nutella ice cream

Leave the cream cheese on the bench for a few minutes to soften. While you are waiting for the cream cheese to soften pour the cream into a large bowl and beat with hand mixers or in a stand mixer. Add salt. Whip cream until soft peaks form.

In a seperate bowl put in softened cream cheese and beat with a hand or stand mixer until cream cheese is soft and mixed through. Most of the cream cheese may be stuck to the beaters by now, that’s OK, just carefully scrap some of it off.

Add the Nutella and beat until mixed through. Do not over whip as this will get beaten again when you add it to the cream.

Add the cream cheese and Nutella mix to the whiped cream in thirds, mixing lightly between each addition. When you add the last blob scrap down the bowl to make sure all the whiped cream has been mixed in.

The mix will resemble a fluffy chocolate mousse. You could eat it now if you want, but we’re making ice cream! Carefully scrap into a freezer proof container, such as loaf or brownie tin.

Cover and freeze overnight or until firm. Remove from freezer a few mins before serving to soften.

Hot tip: The cream cheese gives this a lovely creamy taste and helps prevent that awful icy texture. The tradeoff is it can make the ice cream very crumbly and hard to get a smooth scoop. Still delicious and worth it for not having to use an ice cream maker.

Have you made this recipe? I’d love to know how it went in the comments below.

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5 from 5 votes

No churn Nutella ice cream

This no churn Nutella ice cream has only four ingredients and does not need an ice cream maker. Easy and super tasty.

Course: Dessert, Snack

Cuisine: Australian

Keyword: easy ice cream recipe, no churn ice cream, No churn Nutella ice cream, Nutella, Nutella ice cream

Equipment

• hand mixer or beater
• Freezable container

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Nutella *you can replace with your chocolate spread of choice
• 1 tub (250gms) Cream cheese
• 2 cups (500ml) thickened cream
• 1 pinch salt

Instructions

• Leave cream cheese on bench for five minutes to soften
• In a large bowl beat cream and pinch of salt until soft peaks form
• In a seperate bowl add softened cream cheese and beat until softened and broken up.
• Add Nutella and beat in well
• Add Nutella and cream cheese mix into cream cheese one third at a time, mixing in well in between.
• Scrape into a freezable container and smooth down
• Freeze overnight or until firm
• Remove from freezer five minutes before serving to soften. Scoop and enjoy!

Notes

To make this nut free replace the Nutella with your chocolate spread of choice, just make sure its soft enough to mix in and adjust the quantity as needed.