There are two items permanently engraved on my comfort food list. One is pizza; the other is ice cream. When I received complimentary jars of Blueberry Lemon Artisan Fruit Spread from Regina’s Farm Kitchen, I struggled with what I would make until the obvious answer appeared here on her website.

I remember the homemade ice cream I had when I was a kid. My mom had a blue electric ice cream maker. I remember wondering how adding salt to the ice surrounding a metal canister would result in something so sweet and wonderful. There’s something special and incredibly nostalgic about the taste of that homemade vanilla ice cream.

That was then. Now, my 4 year old grandson is curious about food in a similar way which is why I loved sharing time with him as we mixed up this batch of “no church” ice cream. No, it isn’t quite the same as those old fashioned recipes but the memories are still pretty special.

Lex is curious about ingredients and I’m happy to help him discover what they are. When we measure honey for the ice cream, we make sure to drizzle a little on his finger. He LOVES it! I also made sure he smelled the cardamom before we added it. Mmmm.

Sweetened condensed milk was added while the mixer was turning. Don’t worry, there were two adults on hand to keep him safe and to make sure all of that milk made it into the bowl.

When you’re making ice cream and memories with a little person, they have questions and they want to help with every single little thing. If you find yourself cooking with young ones, go ahead and let them smell, taste, stir, pour…. all of it. Make that ice cream or whatever. Make some memories.

Side note: I enjoy creamy ice cream sometimes but for this, I wanted to dial things back just a tiny little bit. Typically, many no-churn recipes just use heavy cream. I substituted a small portion of heavy cream with half-and-half. I’m thinking that it would be cool to even go 50/50 on this the next go around. We’ll see.

Where was I?

Okay… so don’t forget about the young ones when they grow up and hover when you’re making something they love.

My daughter helped assemble our creamy little treat. She was careful about placing dollops of Blueberry Lemon Artisan Fruit Spread on top of those pillowy mounds of ice cream base. See those nails? Like I said, she was careful.

She was also a taste tester when we opened the jar. It’s good atop crackers with cream cheese.

Speaking of cheese…

One of the over-the-top ingredients in this freezer bound confection is a slice of New York style cheesecake. This one came from a bakery near my home. It’s amazing and was a perfect compliment to the Blueberry Lemon spread.

There was a layer of fruit spread and cheesecake in the middle and another on the top.

Each layer was swirled because spreading love around is a good thing. Afterwards, the pan was wrapped, placed in the freezer and chilled overnight.

The result was delicious! Just imagine those sweet trails of blueberry lemon artisan spread wrapped around bits of cheesecake and sweet cream. Yum! Here’s the recipe in case you find that you just can’t help yourself.

No-Churn Blueberry Lemon Cheesecake Ice Cream

Ingredients
1½ c. cold heavy whipping cream
½ cup cold half-and-half
14-oz. can sweetened condensed milk
2 tsp. honey
½ tsp ground cardamom
1/4 tsp. fine sea salt
1 slice New York style cheesecake, crumbled
1 jar Regina’s Farm Kitchen Blueberry Lemon Artisan Fruit Spread

Directions
In the bowl of a stand mixer, fitted with a whisk attachment, combine the COLD heavy cream, COLD half-and-half, sweetened condensed milk, honey, cardamom and sea salt. Beat on high until mixture forms stiff peaks.

Pour half of the ice cream base into a metal loaf pan. Drop dollops of fruit spread along the top of the mixture. Sprinkle with half of the cheesecake crumbles then swirl. Repeat layering, swirling the fruit spread and cheesecake crumbles into the cream.

Cover the loaf pan with plastic wrap and freeze 6 hours or until firm.

Enjoy!

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Disclosure: I received complimentary jars of Blueberry Lemon Artisan Fruit Spread from Regina’s Farm Kitchen. I received no monetary compensation for this post. All opinions are based on my own personal experience. You can view my full Disclosure Policy here.