Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream

Strawberry Shortcake Ice Cream combines a creamy vanilla ice cream with concentrated strawberry purée and pieces of homemade shortcake crumble. Made with fresh or frozen strawberries, this churned ice cream has all the flavors of classic strawberry shortcake layered into every scoop.

Strawberry shortcake was basically made to become ice cream. You already have the sweet strawberries, plenty of cream, and buttery shortcake.

I wanted this version to taste like the actual dessert, not just strawberry ice cream with crumbs mixed in.

To achieve this, the strawberries get cooked down first for a stronger, more concentrated flavor.

Then the shortcake crumble gets layered in after churning. Some pieces stay a little crisp. Some soften into the ice cream.

You get more strawberry flavor, more shortcake in every scoop, and enough of both that you’re not digging through the container looking for the good parts.

And if homemade ice cream sounds like a project, this one is pretty straightforward. There’s no custard to cook and no eggs to temper. I’ll walk you through the parts that matter most, from getting the strawberry purée thick enough to layering everything.

And because frozen strawberries work just as well as fresh, you don’t even have to wait around for perfect summer berries.