Coffee Oreo ice cream is delicious and birthday cake ice cream is delicious. But the two are combined in this Birthday Cake Oreo Coffee Ice Cream, along with lots of rainbow sprinkles, for the best ice cream ever!

The ability to purchase seven pounds of sprinkles without stepping foot out of my house is pretty much my favorite thing about Amazon. I purchased a seven pound containe back in March to create my sprinkles lamp and have looked for every opportunity to cook and bake with sprinkles since then.
In the midst of dreaming up this coffee Oreo ice cream (my favorite flavor in all the world!), I stumbled upon Birthday Cake Oreo cookies and my necessity for sprinkles treats was multiplied.
Despite the fact that it was one degree out this morning, I'm sharing a coffee ice cream recipe. I truly believe that ice cream is a year-round treat and should be enjoyed just as often in the winter cuddled under a blanket as it is in the summer out in the sunshine.
🍦 How to make birthday cake Oreo coffee ice cream
Coffee ice cream has been my favorite for as long as I can remember, even back before I drank coffee. The only time I'll veer from it is when I'm craving Oreo ice cream (or if coffee heath bar is on the menu!), so why not combine the two and call it a day?
And if you have the opportunity to give anything in life a birthday cake flair, I say go for it!
This is a pretty basic ice cream, consisting of a milk and cream mixture (and in this case, espresso!) with eggs tempered in (a custard-based ice cream).
Oh, but when you're almost done processing it in your ice cream maker, you'll add in two very important components: Birthday Cake Oreos and rainbow sprinkles. The hardest part about this easy ice cream recipe is all the time you need to wait while it chills.
This ice cream is so delicious that I'm pretty sure you could have tempted me to eat it while I was walking to the train this morning. You know, when it was one degree and I had fleece-lined leggings under my pants, a blanket scarf wrapped around my face, and my whole head basically covered in a fur hood.
But still. I'm really not sure I could have turned down this coffee birthday cake Oreo ice cream. Even if my hands fell off from frostbite. WORTH IT.
I've made coffee ice creams before, but this time I added a bit more espresso for a deeper, more robust flavor. In my mind, there's no such thing as too much coffee (or caffeine!
There's also no such thing as too many sprinkles, which is why I added more to the ice cream, despite the fact that the Oero cookies already involved rainbow confetti.
If you're celebrating a coffee lover's birthday, this is the perfect party ice cream for them.
But it certainly doesn't need to be someone's birthday to enjoy this treat. Birthday cake flavored desserts and sprinkles-packed desserts can and should be enjoyed all of the time.
And please, even if you don't want to make this ice cream, you really need to try Birthday Cake Oreos immediately. They are so freaking good!
Are you a fan of coffee ice cream? Birthday cake ice cream?
If you're looking for some other fun ice cream recipes, check out my Cinnamon Toast Crunch Ice Cream or my Red Velvet Ice Cream with Cookie Dough.
And if you're looking for another way to enjoy all those Birthday Cake Oreos, try my Oreo Funfetti Popcorn or this Birthday Cake Oreo Ice Box Cake from Sweetest Menu.
📖 Recipe

Birthday Cake Oreo Coffee Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1½ cups whole milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- ¾ cup granulated sugar
- ¼ teaspoon salt
- 2 tablespoon ground espresso
- 4 large egg yolks
- 16 Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies crushed (or Oreo cookie flavor of your choice)
- ½ cup rainbow sprinkles
Instructions
- Heat milk, cream, sugar, salt, and espresso in a medium-sized saucepan over medium heat.
- Stir constantly, until the mixture just reaches the point of simmer. Remove from heat.
- While milk is heating, lightly whisk egg yolks in a separate medium-sized bowl.
- Pour half of the warm milk/cream into the bowl with the egg yolks, whisking while you do so.
- Then pour the egg/milk mixture back into the pan with the rest of the milk.
- Continue to cook over low heat, while stirring with a wooden spoon. Stir for about 3-5 minutes, until the mixture thickens enough to coat the back of the spoon. Remove the saucepan from heat.
- Strain egg/milk mixture into a separate large bowl.
- Cover bowl with plastic wrap, making sure plastic wrap is touching top of the liquid so skin does not form, and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
- Once mixture is chilled, freeze in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions, mixing in Birthday Cake Oreo Cookies and sprinkles when ice cream is almost done processing.
- Place ice cream in airtight containers and put in freezer for at least 4 hours to continue to harden.
Lauren at Keep It Sweet says
Coffee and Oreo is one of my favorite ice cream combos!
I don't think I'm even going to look at my Amazon history, it would be bad, bad bad!
sarah k @ the pajama chef says
ummm, this ice cream. i am in LOVE. i may need to make it this weekend. and i just checked my amazon history (even though i was scared to)... 50 orders. i blame the baby. gahhh. and christmas shopping. ha. i've heard good things about clothes shopping on amazon but have yet to venture into that territory myself...
Michelle Lahey says
I literally order EVERYTHING on Amazon. It's dangerous and amazing!
Kristen says
coffee oreo has always been my favorite!! love the sprinkles addition and that you are not afraid to make ice cream in the dead of winter!
Gayle @ Pumpkin 'N Spice says
Amazon sucks me in ALL time time! I just made my first purchase of 2017 yesterday and it was a big one. Prime is the best, right? And I probably came close or beat you in your purchases for last year...I blame it on my new dog! 🙂 This ice cream looks SO good, Sues! I love the flavors, especially the birthday cake oreos (my favorite flavor!).
Serena says
speaking of purchases, I've not yet bought an ebook. but if you wrote one on making wardrobe purchases on AMAZON, I'd buy it in a NY minute. Winter is the time for full flavor coffee ice cream. Yup. Gotta ice down my ice cream maker....
Agness of Run Agness Run says
This is my favourite dessert combo! Love it!