Chocolate Covered Ice Cream Bites
What I love about these ice cream bites
- Looking for a unique dessert to serve at parties, this is it? These ice cream bites are such a tasty treat and they are not your usual dessert. Everyone will think you spent hours creating these divine little bites because they look so fancy. Set these out on a platter and watch them disappear. No plates, forks or spoons required to eat this dessert. You know what them means…no dishes!
- The best part of these little creamy, crunchy bites is you can make these with different flavors of ice creams and then add different toppings to make them festive and even more delicious.
- Got kids, this is a great dessert for them to help make. Kids love scooping and dipping the ice cream in the chocolate.
- Make a batch of these ice cream bites and keep in the freezer for when you want a dessert.
Your ingredient list-
How to make a chocolate shell
Everyone asks how I get that hard shell chocolate topping. It’s like the Hershey’s Magic Shell, and you can definitely use that, but because I think I have to make everything from scratch I’m going to give you my super-secret recipe for the chocolate coating.
The chocolate coating is made with just two ingredients, chocolate, and coconut oil. The coconut oil is what makes the chocolate hard. Just melt the chocolate and coconut oil together, stir really well and you have a chocolate coating, it really is like magic. If you have extra chocolate after dipping the bites pour it in an ice cube tray and freeze it. Just remelt in the microwave for a few seconds. Coconut oil has so many uses other uses for it, so this jar won’t go to waste.
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You need a few kitchen tools to make the little scoops nice and neat, a small ice cream scoop, mine is a one tablespoon scoop, 18/8. Use a bench scraper or a wide flat knife, to flatten out the ice cream and pack it down in the scoop which will make it nice and smooth on the bottom.
Are you feeling creative, here is your chance to mix and match ice cream flavors and toppings. My choices today are chocolate and mint ice cream and my toppings are grated chocolate, cocoa nibs, and sprinkles. This is a good time to dig deep in your pantry to find something to put on top.
Need some suggestions for toppings
- chopped nuts
- graham cracker crumbs
- coconut
- crushed Heath bar
- finely chopped ginger
- sea salt flakes
How to make ice cream bites
- Choose your ice cream flavor or mix and match flavors
- Choose your Oreo cookie – I use Chocolate and Golden Oreos
- Make room in your freezer for the ice cream bites
- Using a small cookie scoop, make a nice clean scoop making sure the bottom is smooth and put on top of the cookie
- Place the cookie in the freezer on a tray and freeze until firm- I do five cookies at a time
- Make the chocolate coating with dark chocolate and coconut oil
- Dip the cookie with the frozen ice cream into the chocolate
- Top with all your delicious toppings
- Refreeze the ice cream bites and then serve
Creamy and Crunchy Oreo Ice Cream Bites
Equipment
Ingredients
- 12 Oreo cookies
- 1 quart Ice Cream, your favorite flavors
- 12 oz. dark chocolate, chopped
- 1/4 cup coconut oil
- toppings of your choice - nuts, crushed cookies, sprinkles, graham cracker crumbs
Instructions
Making the Oreo Ice Cream Bites
- For this recipe, I am using 12 Oreo cookies. You can use as many Oreos as you want, make sure to have enough ice cream on hand.
- Have a tray ready in the freezer to put the ice cream bites on.
- Using the ice cream scoop, make a big scoop of ice cream and then scrape off the excess with a bench scraper or a flat knife, making sure the ice cream is packed in the scoop. You want the bottom to be flat so it sits on the Oreo.
- Place the scoop of ice cream on an Oreo. I usually do five at a time them place these on the tray in the freezer.
- Freeze the ice cream bites until firm.
Chocolate Coating
- Place the coconut oil and chopped chocolate in a bowl and heat in the microwave at 20-second intervals, until the chocolate is melted. Stir until the chocolate coating is smooth then let cool.
Dipping the Ice Cream Bites in Chocolate
- Make sure the chocolate coating is in a deep enough bowl to dip the ice cream bites.
- Dip the ice cream bite into the chocolate coating, making sure to coat the ice cream ball and the top part of the Oreo. This seals the ice cream and Oreo together.
- Sprinkle on your choice of toppings. I have found it best to sprinkle on the topping instead of dipping the ice cream bite in the topping.
- Place the ice cream bites back in the freezer, and freeze until firm
- Store in a freezer container for one month.
Notes
Nutrition
Pick your topping
colorful sprinkles – nuts – coconut-cocoa nibs – Oreo crumbs – graham cracker ….
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Thanks for stopping by One Hot Oven and let me know what you think of these tasty ice cream treats.
Jere’
I really love these,the perfect snack for sure. I would love to make these with my nieces and nephews.
These ice-cream bites are deliciously divine! So creative! I don’t think 2 or 3 would be enough for me!
These yummy treats would disappear so fast at any gathering. I love that they look so elegant, put are so simple to make. Awesome job!
Thank you for the kind comment. They do disappear fast!
This is just food art at its finest! Very well designed and well taken pictures which make this great dessert very inviting. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for your kind comments, glad you like them.
Oh my gosh. These are dessert perfection! I need to make these soon – it’s still warm here so I think it’s acceptable lol!
These are adorable! and I’m excited to try making the magic shell from scratch. It’s been years since we’ve had the store-bought kind, and I’d much rather make my own. Thanks for sharing how to do it.
I have to admit then as well that I love having Oreo around for a quick bite. You can imagine how excited I was to see these Oreo ice cream bites. They look delicious!
We always make extra and just keep them in the freezer.
You had me at Oreos. These are so cute and look delicious. I can’t wait to give these a try!
I plan to surprise my little brother and sister with this treat. they love chocolate anything sweets, I plan to use crushed chocolate cookies for toppings for this one. Thank you for sharing this idea, looks so delicious.
This dessert is so versatile, and what a great idea for kids to get into. And nice tip about the freezer, I always try to make place AFTER I need to get something into the freezer. Bad planner, much. But this looks so delicious!
In love with this idea and so much fun! This dessert would be great for a party. A pleasant surprise using Oreos and ice cream that everyone loves. Super creative!
How fun and delicious are these!!! Who doesn’t love an oreo with ice cream. Great idea!
How cute are these! They wouldn’t last long around my daughter if we made them.
Haha! My daughter started making these on her own and keeps them in the freezer for her snacks.
What a delightful recipe – what’s not to love? Great tip on adding coconut oil to chocolate when you melt it. I didn’t know this was to make the chocolate go hard!
Thanks so much for the nice comments. I use coconut oil for so much these days.
Such a great idea for a summer dessert! These ice cream bites look so delicious and I bet kids love them!
A delicious frozen treat for everyone!!!
What a delicious treat! Love that you can use your fav ice cream and all types of toppings! I know that I wouldn’t be able to eat just one.
I can eat a lot of these because they really are delicious.