Intimidated by making homemade ice cream? I’ve always been! That is, until trying no-church strawberry shortbread ice cream. So creamy and delicious. This post contains affiliate links which, when purchased through, add no cost to the consumer but add a small commission to this site to enable me to continue to bring more fun content.
Confession: I have never made homemade ice cream. Until trying no-churn strawberry shortbread ice cream, that is. Here in our rural community, homemade ice cream is more like an event than a recipe. Relatives, always a generation or two older, pull our their tried and true ice cream makers from storage. These are the ones that require rock salt, pounds of ice, hand-cranking, and a little bit of reminiscing. Once the ice cream is complete, cousins and neighbors stop by for a good story and a bowl. I have several memories of mid-day Saturday phone calls during our first few years of marriage. “Auntie’s making ice cream. Ya’ll come down here in a few!” Of course, we always dropped what we were doing and went.
I’m not sure if it is the nostalgia or the hand-cranking, but I’ve always been intimidated by making homemade ice cream. I don’t have an ice cream maker and have no idea where to even start. Pretty sure I could never make it to live up to Auntie’s standards! I have a few friends who have newer ice cream makers, like this one, who swear by them. But do I need another small kitchen appliance? Even though the non-sensical answer is typically yes, I’m in a more minimalist season of life where I do not want to buy something I may not use a ton.
Luckily, the foodie bloggers have me covered. I stumbled across a few no-churn ice cream recipes, but none really caught my eye until this No-Churn Strawberry Shortbread Ice Cream recipe from Domestically Speaking. We still have a few strawberry farms around that have fresh strawberries available, and we are still diligently supporting their harvest at least a few times a week. I use fresh strawberries in one of these easy ways daily, but with our gallon of strawberries on the counter and this no-churn strawberry ice cream in my Instagram feed, I decided to forego intimidation and give this recipe a try!
The ingredient list is short and sweet (my kind of recipe!). Click HERE to visit the recipe page and get the full ingredient list and recipe instructions.
- Ease of recipe: Very easy. My kids pitched in and pretty much made the entire recipe on their own.
- Finished product: This recipe turned out exactly as expected and as pictured on the recipe page.
- Family stamp of approval: My triplets liked that we were using our local, fresh strawberries in a recipe. My husband thought it tasted like a local restaurant’s strawberry cheesecake ice cream. The ice cream scoop yielded a creamy concoction that had everyone saying,” Yum!”
I’m not a professional chef by any means, so know that if I successfully made this, so can you!
