Pumpkin Ice Cream & Doughnut Dessert

This Pumpkin Ice Cream & Doughnut Sandwich Dessert is a delicious treat! Make this easy pumpkin ice cream and create a sandwich with pumpkin donuts. You’ll want to make this seasonal dessert as soon as Pumpkin Spice flavors hit the shelves at the grocery store.

Make an Ice Cream Sandwich with Donuts

I’m in the midst of pumpkin spice heaven. You know it happens every year at this time. Pumpkin flavor takes over everything from cakes, to cookies, to pies, to coffee.

Since I love it as much as everyone else does, I decided to put together this pumpkin ice cream doughnut dessert as part of my Fall partnership with International Delight. And of course I’m using their Pumpkin Pie Spice flavored creamer to help give me those rich spicy flavors.

This dessert idea came to mind because I love making pumpkin ice cream the easy way, and I recently found these pumpkin flavored doughnuts at the grocery store. I thought, “why not combine the two into one delicious dessert?”

Pumpkin Ice Cream & Donut Sandwich

If you love pumpkin desserts as much as I do you’ll want to make my easy pumpkin pie for the holidays, and my pumpkin pie dump cake recipe for easy entertaining.

My first thought was to make ice cream-doughnut sandwiches, but I wanted to incorporate crunchy gingersnaps too, and so this layered dessert evolved. It’s rich, and decadent, and tricked out with pumpkin flavor!

These would be just as good using plain glazed doughnuts during the ‘off’ season, and for me the crunchy ginger snaps help to balance some of the sweetness with a little spicy “heat” from the ginger snaps. This is a great family treat to serve after dinner or for an afternoon snack.

Pumpkin Ice Cream & Doughnut Sandwich recipe

Yield: 6 desserts

As soon as Pumpkin flavored creamer hits the shelves in fall, grab some and make this pumpkin ice cream & donut sandwich desert for entertaining.

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Ingredients

• 1.5 quart size vanilla bean ice cream
• 1/3 cup pure pumpkin {not pumpkin pie filling}
• 1/8 cup International Delight Pumpkin Pie Spice flavored creamer
• 6 pumpkin spice cake doughnuts {I used Krispy Kreme I found at the grocery store}
• about 10 crispy ginger snap cookies, crushed
• caramel and whipped cream for topping

Instructions

1. Let ice cream sit at room temperature to soften {about 15-20 minutes} and transfer to a large mixing bowl.
2. Add pumpkin and combine well using a hand mixer on low speed. Add creamer and mix just until smooth.
3. Cover and put bowl of ice cream into freezer for a couple of hours to firm up.
4. While ice cream is still a little soft, you can scoop balls into another bowl and continue to freeze until firm. This will actually help it to freeze quicker, plus you have pre-made ice cream scoops at the ready.
5. For dessert, cut doughnuts in half so you have a top and a bottom.
6. Place a scoop of pumpkin flavored ice cream on the bottom layer and top it with the other half.
7. Drizzle caramel lightly over dessert sandwich and top with whipped cream. Sprinkle ginger snap crumbles over the top and serve.

Notes

You can microwave the doughnuts for 10-12 seconds so they are warm and soft, OR put them in the oven at 350 degrees for about 3 minutes for that "fresh baked" taste and texture.