Apple Pie Oatmeal Cookie Ice Cream – A fabulous homemade ice cream packed with apple pie filling and crispy oatmeal cookies.

While I may not make a lot of ice cream in the fall and winter months, there is certainly still a basic human need for it. Like on top of pie. Or warm brownies. Or cobbler.

I guess you could say that I prefer ice cream in the fall and winter to “go” with something warm. This isn’t a hard-and-fast rule, however, because I have been dreaming up this mean pumpkin ice cream that I hope to make before it’s time for peppermint to take over my life next month, and this apple pie oatmeal cookie ice cream is one that definitely can go either way.

The ice cream itself, as the name implies, is like eating ice cream, pie, and cookies all in one dessert. It’s pretty magical. We just happened to serve it over that apple slab pie I posted last week because hey, what’s wrong with a double-dose of apple pie for dessert?

For the pie part of the ice cream, you’ll sauté apples with a little sugar and some warm apple pie spices then stir the cooled apples into some freshly churned ice cream. The “cookies” are borne out of the oatmeal raisin cookie ice cream I made last year. The little chunks of oatmeal praline add a bit of crunch and texture to the smooth cinnamon-vanilla ice cream.

I guess you could otherwise call this apple crisp ice cream but I went with cookie here since I really do enjoy crispy oatmeal cookies. (Remember these?) If you want to skip the oatmeal praline (although it only does take a couple minutes to make and can be made 1 week ahead), might I suggest adding chopped up oatmeal cookies here instead?

Heaven, anyone? There’s no need to hide how much time you’ll spend standing over the ice cream container scooping softened edges of this ice cream. I already know.