There’s truly nothing better than homemade ice cream….but add cookie dough, make it low-carb and keto-friendly, and you have the best homemade ice cream possible. So creamy, sweet, full of pure vanilla flavor with a generous amount of low-carb, gluten-free cookie dough mixed throughout and added on top. There’s nothing worse than cookie dough ice cream that doesn’t have enough cookie dough in it…that’s why I like making my own so I can add as much as I want to.

The base of this keto ice cream recipe is super simple (only 5 ingredients) and you probably have most of the ingredients already on hand.

Heavy cream – for obvious reasons
Whole milk, or milk of choice – to make sure it’s not too rich
Pure vanilla extract – it’s important to use high quality vanilla for best flavor!
Allulose sweetener – this is an all natural sugar-free, zero net carb sweetener that works extremely well for ice cream because it doesn’t crystalize in cold temperatures (like many sugar-free sweeteners do) and actually keeps your ice cream softer even when it’s been in the freezer for a while.
Cream cheese – just a small amount helps emulsify the sweetener!

After these ingredients are whisked together, simply add the mixture to your ice cream maker of choice and process according to the machine’s instructions. Feel free to stop here if you just want simple and delicious vanilla ice cream, or move on to the next steps to add the cookie dough.

After you have your vanilla ice cream prepared, whip together the cookie dough recipe and add as much as your heart desires! You can never have enough in my opinion…

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Now that I have this base recipe, I’m excited to come up with lots more low-carb ice cream recipes! If you have any specific flavor requests, feel free to comment below or let me know on Instagram. Cookies n’ cream, peanut butter cup, and mint chocolate chip are a few of my personal favorites… 😉

I hope you enjoy this keto cookie dough ice cream recipe, and let me know if you give it a try!

Low-Carb, Keto Cookie Dough Ice Cream

Sarah

Creamy homemade vanilla ice cream with no sugar added, filled with chunks of low-carb cookie dough!

5 from 1 vote

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Ingredients

Ice cream:

1 tbsp cream cheese softened
1/2 cup allulose sweetener
1 tsp pure vanilla extract
1 1/4 cup heavy cream
1/2 cup whole milk
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Cookie dough:

1 stick unsalted butter softened
1/3 cup sugar-free sweetener of choice
1 cup blanched almond flour
3 tbsp coconut flour
1/4 tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/3 cup sugar-free chocolate chips

Instructions

Combine softened cream cheese and allulose until sweetener has fully dissolved. Whisk in remaining ice cream ingredients.
Process the mixture in your ice cream maker of choice according to the machine's instructions (I used my Ninja creami).
Combine all cookie dough ingredients until dough forms. Form into little balls.
Once ice cream is ready, stir in the cookie dough and top with extra cookie dough if desired. Enjoy!