Caramel Ice Cream with Easter Eggs is the perfect delicious way to use up a glut of Creme Eggs, Caramel Eggs, and Mini Eggs!
Are you bored of filling your face with Easter Eggs yet?
Do you even have any left?
My daughter has been handing her Creme Eggs over to me as I think she has reached a point of sugar overload.
Then my son said he feared he’d given himself diabetes with the amount of chocolate he consumed on Easter Sunday!
Well, Caramel Ice Cream with Easter Eggs is certainly no cure for diabetes but is a delicious way of using up any stray Creme Eggs, Caramel Eggs, and Mini Eggs eggs you may still have left.
If you don’t have an ice cream maker I can’t recommend them more highly!
I have a basic cheap one that I found for half price in Aldi a few years ago and it’s the best £10 I ever spent.
The base is a bowl that you pop in the freezer and a lid with a motor and paddle just clip on to the top.
We loved this ice cream and enjoyed it on Easter Sunday after our roast turkey (we like to mix things up here)!
More Recipes Using Easter Eggs
Here are some more tasty recipes to use up those left over Easter eggs:
- Creme Egg Brownies – Fab Food 4 All
- Easter Granola Cakes – Fab Food 4 All
- Fridge Cake Tray Bakes Recipes – Foodie Quine
- Mini Egg Chocolate Covered Blondies – BakingQueen74
- Polish Cheese Buns with leftover Easter Chocolate – Coffee & Vanilla
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Caramel Ice Cream with Easter Eggs
Ingredients
- 90 g Soft light brown sugar
- 50 g Unsalted butter
- 300 ml Warm milk
- 2 Eggs large
- 65 g Granulated sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla paste
- 300 ml Double cream
- 100 g Chocolate Mini Eggs smashed up (kept in fridge until needed)
- 2 Creme Eggs or Caramel Eggs chopped up (kept in fridge until needed)
Garnish
- Extra Mini Eggs to serve optional
Instructions
- Place the light brown sugar and butter in a pan and heat until melted.
- Allow to bubble for 1 minute.
- Turn down the heat and add the warm milk, stirring until gently heated through.
- Beat the eggs and sugar until thoroughly mixed then stir in the warm milk mixture and vanilla paste.
- Use a sieve to strain the mixture back into the pan.
- Stir over a low heat until the custard thickens slightly (it mustn’t boil or simmer or it will curdle). It should just coat the back of a spoon.
- Cool the custard by pouring it into a bowl and place it in a larger bowl, a third full of iced water – this takes about 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile whisk the double cream lightly (until forms floppy peaks, you don’t want stiff cream). Place in the fridge until custard has cooled.
- Once the custard has cooled mix in the cream and put in the fridge for at least 10 minutes.
- Pour the ice cream mixture into an ice cream maker, switch on and then pour the broken up Easter egg pieces down the shoot gradually to mix in evenly.
- Once the ice cream is ready, spoon it into a suitable container and allow it to freeze fully for several hours before serving.
- Serve with extra Mini Eggs if wished.
Lizzie Elliott
It doesn’t say how much double cream you need
Camilla
Hi Lizzie, so sorry, don’t know what happened there! It’s 300 mls, corrected now, thank you for pointing out!
Margaret Gallagher
Will be such a pleasure making this delight – without a doubt it will not last long here
Camilla
Thanks Margaret, I’m sure it won’t:-)
Margot
Wow, what an amazing and easy to make springtime treat! My family would love this… Thanks for linking up to my recipe as well 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Margot, a pleasure:-)
A S,Edinburgh
This is such a great idea for using up seasonal chocolate! I’ve seen recipes for ice cream made with brown sugar before, but I don’t think I’ve got round to actually trying any… It sounds delicious.
Camilla
Thank you:-)
Maya Russell
The kids still have loads of little Easter Eggs and it’s June! Looks like delicous icecream.
Camilla
Wow! Thanks Maya;-)
Sam McKean
What a great idea, we always have chocolate that needs using…thanks for the tip!
Lucy
Do you know, we still have loads of the kids Easter eggs left! I will have to look out for a bargain ice cream maker too and try this out. Thanks for mentioning my blondies as well.
Camilla
Wow! Yes do get an ice cream maker, so useful! Aldi is a good place to find one!
Miranda
This looks delicious, a great way to use up easter eggs!
Anthony Webster
mmmm looks great
Emma @ Supper in the Suburbs
What a great way of using up all the chocolate I still have left over from Easter. I really can’t eat it quick enough. Great post 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Emmma, I ate my last errant Creme Egg yesterday after it rolled out of my handbag, had forgotten all about it!
Anna
It would be wonderful to have a big glass of this caramel ice cream on the hot days like today. I love eating ice cream and even can eat them on very cold weather. Could you please give me some Camilla?
Camilla
Thanks Anna, by the way you don’t need to fill in the URL unless you have a blog:-)
Sonya Cisco
That sounds utterly divine!! We still have plenty of chocolate to use up in our house – I feel some baking coming on this week!
Camilla
Excellent although I think freezing would be better than baking:-)
Rachel
Ice cream is never a treat I would choose, but mini and easter eggs in the equation and I am wishing I could put my spoon through the screen!
Camilla
LOL Rachel:-)
Choclette
We didn’t get an overload of eggs this year, but the ice-cream looks very tempting.
Camilla
Me neither Choclette, but probably just as well!
Linsy
caramel and easter eggs is awesome combination, i have to make caramel for long time but no luck , lets see if this summer i can do it, this will first one list.
Camilla
Thanks Linsy:-)
Kara Guppy
That looks amazing, I have never tried to make my own ice cream
Camilla
You should really try it Kara, so delicious;-)
Kizzy
This sounds delicious, I love both ice cream and mini eggs
Camilla
Excellent Kizzy:-)
Peter @ Feed Your Soul Too
Looks great. I will take 3 scoops please.
Camilla
OK Peter, as it’s you:-)
Joanna
Yum fab idea to use up easter eggs
Deborah Nicholas
Thanks for the recipe lovely – will be trying this as the kids love ice cream and im a little partial to caramel!! lol
Camilla
Great Deborah, enjoy:-)
Helen @ family-friends-food.com
Now that the sun’s starting to come out a bit and the weather’s warming up, I’ve been thinking about digging out the ice-cream maker again. This looks like a delicious start to the ice-cream season!
Camilla
Thanks Helen:-)
Dannii @ Hungry Healthy Happy
Everyone is talking about leftover easter eggs, but I have no idea what they are – we have no leftovers haha.
This looks like a good way to use up leftovers though.
Camilla
I know, as adults we don’t get many eggs. In fact I didn’t get any this year just the one’s a brand sent me.
Glamorous Glutton
I’ve got a few eggs to use up, this would be perfect and a great way to finish off the easter strays. GG
Camilla
Fabulous:-)
Mona
Wish I’d seen this in time for Easter Darn! But I have pinned it for next year and may try making the ice cream part as it looks like a great basic ice cream recipe.
Camilla
Thanks Mona:-)
shobha
A perfect dessert for Easter.. mini eggs look so colourful and decorative
Camilla
Thanks Shobha, we enjoyed it;-)
Krystallia Giamouridou
Wow! It looks so delicious…May I ask what type of ice-cream maker do you use? 😀 Thank you for sharing this recipe.
Camilla
I explain the ice cream maker in the post:-)
Margot
Looks amazing! Now I’m tempted to steal some chocolate eggs from my kids 🙂
Thanks for sharing and mentioning my recipe as well.
Camilla
Thanks Margot! My son had forgotten about a Mini Eggs Egg in the kitchen and I stupidly told him about it! I’m just too honest for my own good LOL:-)
Jacqueline Meldrum
Just gorgeous Camilla and beautifully scooped. I’ always rubbish at scooping. Stumbled, yummed, tweeted and pinned 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Jacqueline, there was a bit of changing over of sundae dishes as the first one got smeared LOL:-)
Sam | Ahead of Thyme
This will be perfect for dessert tonight! It’s perfect that easter candy is now on sale 🙂 am going to see if I can grab all the ingredients after work. Thank you!
Camilla
Great Sam, do let me know how you got on:-)
Tamara
I love ice cream, this particular one looks fab, and I think I may have the same ice-cream freezer! They make the process of making frozen desserts so easy… I miss the days of Easter egg hunts, and what to do with the leftovers after the kiddoes can’t handle any more sugar! I raised 4 sons, have a toddler grandson, and a new grandson due in July. Maybe in a few years 🙂
Camilla
Thank you Tamara, what an exciting summer you’re going to have:-)
Britni
I love anything and everything with caramel so this is perfect for me. Plus I have a TON of extra Easter Eggs hanging around that I need to do something with. Thanks for the great idea!
Camilla
Thank you Britni glad to have inspired you:-)
Whitney
I love it! Absolutely perfect for Easter. It’s too late for the eggs, now…but it’s never too late for caramel ice cream!
Camilla
Thanks Whitney, you could just pop chopped up chocolate or caramels in there if you’ve eaten all the eggs:-)
Becca @ Amuse Your Bouche
Haha I don’t think I will ever bore of eating Easter eggs – but this ice cream looks worth buying more for 😉
Camilla
Thanks Becca:-)
Kate @ VeggieDesserts
What a great way to use up Easter chocolates! And fab buy with the £10 ice cream maker 🙂
Camilla
Thanks Kate and yes I love my ice cream maker:-)
Lindsay At Newcastle Family Life
This looks and sounds amazing! I really need to make this sometime x
Camilla
Thank you Lindsay:-)
Heather Haigh
No spare Easter eggs here but the ice-cream looks delicious.
Camilla
Thanks Heather:-)
Ickle Pickle
This looks so delicious – we do still have some stray eggs hanging around! We would all love this ice cream. Kaz x
Camilla
Thanks Kaz, yes I see my son has left his Mini Eggs Egg in the kitchen – I might just keep quiet and see if he claims it LOL:-)