While Ryan and my dad were deeply involved in several different games, my mom, sister and I got together to make Ryan’s birthday “cake.” (Ryan’s birthday is not until October 5, but my family probably won’t see him again before then, so the cake from my family came a bit early.)
My mom and sister are well aware of Ryan’s intense love for Oreo’s and he previously raved about a peppermint ice cream and Oreo dessert my mom served once before, so we decided to make that again for the almost birthday boy.
To start we took a half gallon of peppermint ice cream out of the freezer to let it defrost a bit.
Edy's Peppermint Ice Cream
We then rounded up a package of Oreo cookies (one roll was already gone due to previous cookie monsters) and dumped the cookies into a big plastic bag. You can use more or less cookies, depending on your love for Oreos.
Oreos
Bag o' Cookies
We then used a meat tenderizer to pound the cookies into crumbs. I highly recommend doing this over a plate as I punctured the baggie and some dust-buster action was required. When I lifted the bag up and crumbs poured out of the holes, the mess that resulted was not so fun to clean up. 😉
Crumbled Cookies
We then poured half of the crumbled Oreos into a loaf pan sprayed lightly with cooking spray.
The Bottom Layer
By now the ice cream was soft and ready to spread over the first layer of cookie crumbs.
Softened Ice Cream
Ice Cream, Spread Evenly Over the Cookie Crumbs
Pretty 'n' Pink
We then topped the ice cream with the remaining cookie crumbs and placed the dessert back in the freezer to harden until we were ready to eat.
Topped with Cookies
A couple hours later we were ready to dig in!
Peppermint and Oreo Fun
It got rave reviews from everyone, including the almost-birthday boy!
Minty and Creamy!
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This is my second look this morning. I have you on my favorites! Your peppermint stick oreo dessert is driving me crazy. I want some now! Miss you! xo Mama
i miss you already too mama!!! i took a pic of all the goodies i “shop lifted” from our house… pretty funny. i’ll have it post it later. :o) love you!!!
this looks delicious!!!!!!! Great idea!
OMG that looks so yummy. My mom makes an amazing oreo cookie dessert that reminds me of this!!
Amazing! I love oreos!
Our family’s holiday dessert! YEA! Love seeing it…. and glad to know it’s got a home on your table too! <3
Oh yes! It lives on! We LOVE this recipe. It’s so, so tasty!!!
I made this recipe today! I too am a huge icecream fan so I used drumstick flavoured icecream and the top layer consisted of oreo cookies AND chocolate sauce!
This looks so freaking fantastic I am drooling!!!! Just wrote a post about choosing a hormone-free ice cream (no one wants hormones in their dessert!), to help make ice-cream buying easier:
http://eating-made-easy.com/2010/08/25/how-to-be-sure-your-ice-cream-is-hormone-free/
Awesome recipe, I saw this when searching for an image for peppermint ice cream to show my friend. A combination of my favorite cookie and favorite ice cream. It’s too bad they usually only stock it around the holiday. I’m going to try it out tonight.
hope you like it! it’s a family favorite!