If you enjoy fried ice cream but not so crazy about the mess, you will love this No Fry Fried Ice Cream. A super simple and tasty dessert idea that your family will love.
No Fry Fried Ice Cream
Years ago when the hubby and I first started dating (OMG that was 21 years ago), we would dine at Chi-Chi’s quite often. One of my favorite items to order for dessert was their super tasty fried ice cream. The stuff was like heaven.
Ice cream wrapped in a crispy cinnamon flavored coating was just so unheard of back in those days. A few years ago, I was reminiscing with the hubby and we chatted about making fried ice cream at home. We never got around to it for some reason. I guess we just had forgotten about attempting to make our own. I have noticed quite a few recipes around Pinterest for no frying involved ice cream and decided maybe we could give it a try.
The idea of less mess and not having to freeze ice cream so cold and do so many crazy steps that it would take to make fried ice cream sounded super awesome.
Very few ingredients are needed to make your own No Fry Fried Ice Cream. You will need ice cream (we used vanilla), Corn Flakes cereal, sugar, cinnamon, and butter. These little tasty desserts can be made in just a few minutes time. Perfect!
INGREDIENTS
5 cup Corn Flakes
1/2 cup Butter
2 tsp Cinnamon
4 tsp Sugar
Vanilla Ice Cream
DIRECTIONS
Scoop and form Ice cream into approx 2 1/2″ balls
Place in freezer for 15 minutes.
Pulse corn flakes in food processor to crush.
Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat.
Stir in crushed corn flakes and cinnamon and cook, stirring constantly, about 3-5 minutes or until golden brown.
Remove from heat and stir sugar into mmixture.
Pour into a shallow dish and allow to cool.
Place ice cream ball into mixture and roll to evenly coat.
Press corn flake mixture around outer surface if a thicker coating is desired.
Serve topped with chocolate syrup, whipped topping and/or cherries, as desired.
This recipe is a keeper. For Sure! I made all of us one scoop for our evening dessert. All of the kiddos loved them. So yummy. The cinnamon and sugar with the crunchy coating was great.
We drizzled some chocolate syrup, whipped topping and a cherry. What a wonderful easy and inexpensive dessert to make at home.
Have you ever tried Chi-Chi’s fried ice cream?
No Fry Fried Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 5 cup Corn Flakes
- 1/2 cup Butter
- 2 tsp Cinnamon
- 4 tsp Sugar
- Vanilla Ice Cream
Instructions
- Scoop and form Ice cream into approx 2 1/2" balls
- Place in freezer for 15 minutes.
- Pulse corn flakes in food processor to crush.
- Melt butter in a medium skillet over medium heat.
- Stir in crushed corn flakes and cinnamon and cook, stirring constantly, about 3-5 minutes or until golden brown.
- Remove from heat and stir sugar into mmixture.
- Pour into a shallow dish and allow to cool.
- Place ice cream ball into mixture and roll to evenly coat.
- Press corn flake mixture around outer surface if a thicker coating is desired.
- Serve topped with chocolate syrum, whipped topping and/or cherries, as desired.
Looking for other great dessert ideas? If so be sure to check out these other recipes I have shared…
We simply crush Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, roll ice-cream balls in the cereal and freeze in a ziploc bag. Whenever you want a serving, pull it out of the freezer and top with chocolate sauce! Effortless and great tasting!
This looks so yummy. I am thinking this could be the weekend treat this week. x
Fried ice cream is one of my favorite desserts at our somewhat local Mexican restaurant and I have so many great memories of stuffing myself silly on food just so I could get to the ice cream. I never thought I had the freezer space or the time to make it myself, so thank you for sharing this option. I can’t wait to dive in and try it!
Great simple recipe. Glad I stumbled upon your nice blog. We are neighbors. I live in Liberty Twp., just to the north of Cincy. Trying to get my feet wet in the food blogging world. Have a great week. Quinn
Thanks for sharing this recipe! Found you at Two Cup Tuesday Linky Party! Pinning this delish decadent treat!
What a good idea! I’ve actually never had real fried ice cream, but I bet this taste awesome! Thanks for sharing! Coming over from Fluster’s Creative Muster Link Up!
Such a wonderful idea! And so simple to make, too. I bet it taste as yummy as it looks! Thanks for sharing with us at the Home Matters Linky party. We love having you and hope you join us again!
Genius recipe! Thanks for sharing it at #FoodieFriDIY. Pinning and sharing it on my FB page later today. Looking forward to seeing more of your delicious recipes linked up at our party.
This was so yum!!! I tried it and it was delightful!
Used to make this and drizzle with ho ey. So delicious !
Jen-
I saw this on What’s Cookin’ Wednesday
My family is a fan of fried ice cream I will love to try this recipe out on them!
Thanks!
Michelle
What a great idea! I love that you can make this without all the mess. Thank you for sharing #HomeMattersParty
Can this be made ahead of time and kept in the freezer until ready to serve?
My hometown of Morrow is about 29 miles north of Cincinnati. We used to eat at Chi-Chi’s in Indianapolis & they had the BEST Mexican food and the BEST fried ice cream. They closed down & were greatly missed. We get fried ice cream at El Chico in Tennessee where we now live. We have to tell them to not add chocolate & to give us honey packets. Theirs is nowhere near as good as Chi-Chi’s
Thanks!. Beautiful recipes.