This air fryer homemade s’mores ice cream will quickly become one of your favorite kids’ recipes for fall or even a fun summer treat for a celebration! (Frying ice cream is one of the best air fryer recipes secrets!) If your family loves the traditional s’mores recipe campfire treat, you have to try this frozen dessert version.
How To Make Air Fried Homemade S’mores Ice Cream (No Ice Cream Maker Needed!)
This toasted s’mores ice cream tastes like campfire s’mores right from the fire pit and will quickly become one of your favorite recipes for kids! The toasty marshmallows on toothpicks are really what adds those favorite flavors to this DIY ice cream mixture, so don’t skip that part. This frozen s’more recipe is one of our favorite new recipes for the ultimate summer treat or fun fall dessert.
DIY Smores Ice Cream Ingredients
To make smore ice cream, you’ll need the following s’mores ingredients:
- Favorite quality vanilla ice cream (creamy ice cream with a firmer consistency for the ice cream base)
- Graham crackers / graham cracker squares
- Corn Flakes cereal
- Flour
- Egg
- Marshmallow cream (marshmallow fluff)
- Chocolate sauce, chocolate fudge sauce, or melted chocolate for topping (you can even use even cocoa powder for dusting)
- Mini chocolate chips or bits of chocolate for toppings on ice cream
- Mini toasted marshmallows
See the full smores dessert recipe printable recipe card below! This DIY ice cream is an easy no churn ice cream and no ice cream maker needed recipe (a great alternative for ice cream recipes for ice cream makers)! This really is the best ice cream smore recipe ever! If you love classic s’mores, you’ll love this s’mores recipe! KEEP SCROLLING for the step by step recipe instructions and recipe FAQs.
If you’re looking for how to make s’mores with a twist or an updated version of smores ice cream sandwiches, this is it!
Supplies for Homemade S’mores Air Fryer Ice Cream
For this s’mores ice cream dessert, along with the campfire s’mores ice cream ingredients you’ll also need a few things.
Best S’mores Ice Cream Recipe Tools:
- Air fryer
- Mini muffin tin
- Kitchen torch or matches
- Toothpicks or party picks
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What does S mores ice cream taste like?
Campfire s more ice cream tastes like crunchy ice cream with a hint of that traditional s’mores that you love. You’ll get the graham cracker, chocolate, and marshmallow flavor, but it will be a little different since this icecream dessert is cold (and you’re used to a smore being warm). However, ice cream smores taste just like traditional s’mores because of the toasted marshmallows in the ice cream mixed with the chocolate!
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How To Toast the Indoor S’mores Marshmallows
For our toasted smore marshmallows, we used toothpicks and a small kitchen torch. (You can use matches, too.) Place the mini marshmallows on a toothpick (one at a time) and toast them with the fire, just like you would with a campfire! If you like your smore marshmallows light brown, make them that way. If you like blackened marshmallows, make them that way!
You can use them as a toasted marshmallow ice cream base, marshmallow toppings, and add them on toothpicks to the ice cream before serving just like mini toasted campfire smores!
RECIPE TIP: This was my daughter’s favorite part, but I think it goes without saying that this is grown-ups only part of the recipe. Right?
Toasted S’mores Ice Cream Recipe in the Air Fryer
No Churn S’mores Ice Cream Recipe
This recipe makes the best smores ice cream homemade with an air fryer! I love how air fried ice cream balls retain the creamy texture on the inside, but them have toasted bits of graham crackers on the outside for that perfect single bite!
Also, this is a fun recipe for kids to make because they get to smash up the graham crackers (my kid always loves that part when she gets to make crushed graham crackers with the crab mallet and smash them into graham cracker pieces).
We put our air fryer ice cream in a dish (more like a s’more ice cream sundae recipe with a scoop of ice cream fried balls and then the ice cream toppings), but you can also make this a s’more ice cream cone recipe by putting the ice cream scoops in a sugar cone and then adding the toppings or even putting the fried ice cream between two graham crackers for ice cream s’mores sandwiches.
This s mores ice cream recipe is fun to play around with with different toppings, too.
You may be tempted to use chocolate ice cream with marshmallows, but I would stick to the vanilla. This recipe gets plenty of chocolate with the chocolate syrup and the chocolate chips! (Personally, I think that chocolate s’mores ice cream would drown out the toasted flavor of this ice box dessert.)
For the toasted marshmallows ice cream: we didn’t worry about learning how to add marshmallow to ice cream. Instead, we used marshmallow cream and toasted marshmallows and it worked great for these ice cream recipes.
This is a simple smores ice cream dessert to make, but it is multi-step. Be sure to read through all the recipe directions before starting.
Recipe Tip: You could even use heavy whipping cream and make your own whipped cream like this to go on top!
Homemade S'mores Ice Cream in Air Fryer
Ingredients
- 8 mini scoops vanilla ice cream
- 2 egg whites whisked
- 1/4 cup white flour
- 4 sheets Honey graham crackers crushed, reserve 1 Tablespoon for topping
- 1/4 cup plain corn flakes cereal crushed
- 1/2 cup mini marshmallows individually toasted, reserve 8 on individual toothpicks for garnish (for topping)
- Chocolate syrup for topping
- Marshmallow cream fluff (for topping)
- Mini chocolate chips for topping
- 8 graham cracker squares for serving
Instructions
- Using an ice cream scoop, scoop out 8 small size round vanilla ice cream scoops. Place each scoop into a mini muffin pan.
- Immediately place into freezer and freeze until ice cream scoops are hard, around 1 hour.
- Place flour in small mixing bowl. Roll ice cream in flour to get a light coating. Quickly shape into a ball (if needed) and shake off any excess. Place ice cream balls in mini muffin tin again and freeze until solid. Around 1 hour.
- FOR THE COATING
- Place graham cracker sheets in resealable bag and crush until the crackers are a fine consistency. Remove 1 Tablespoon of crushed graham crackers and place in another sealable bag for toppings. Add corn flake cereal and continue to crush until graham crackers and cereal are finely crushed.
- Whisk egg whites in a bowl until foamy. Place crushed graham cracker/cornflakes in another bowl.
- Remove frozen ice cream balls from freezer. Working quickly, dip in egg whites and then into the graham cracker/cereal mixture. Roll ice cream in mixture until completely covered. Place back into muffin tin. Repeat until all ice cream balls are coated and placed back in muffin tin. Place back in freezer and freeze until coated ice cream is frozen hard, around 3 hours to overnight.
- TO TOAST MARSHMALLOWS FOR TOPPING
- When ready to serve ice cream and BEFORE frying ice cream, toast mini marshmallows (ADULTS ONLY, clearly). For garnish, place 8 mini marshmallows on toothpicks and roast with a kitchen torch or match to desired doneness. (Think about how you like your marshmallows roasted over the campfire.) Set the 8 roasted marshmallows on toothpicks aside for garnish.
- Continue individually roasting the mini marshmallows for topping. Set aside.
- TO FRY ICE CREAM & SERVE
- Fold a piece of aluminum foil to fit the bottom of your air fryer. Fold up the edges of the foil all way around to form a lip/ make a tray. Place in bottom of air fryer.
- Preheat air fryer for 2 minutes at 400 degrees.
- Prepare ice cream dishes by placing a square of graham cracker in the bottom of each dish.
- Remove ice cream balls ONE AT A TIME (or however many will fit in your air fryer at one time) from freezer and place in air fryer. "Fry" for 2-3 minutes. (No longer!)
- Remove ice cream balls with spoon or tongs and immediately place in serving dish on top of graham cracker square. Drizzle with chocolate sauce and top with marshmallow cream, crushed graham crackers, mini chocolate chips and mini toasted marshmallows.
- Repeat with each ice cream ball. Add one of the toasted marshmallows on a toothpick to each dish for garnish. Serve immediately.
- TIP: If you want a little extra roasted taste like when you make s'mores on the fire, also roast the tops of your fried ice balls with the kitchen torch for a few seconds. We did this with my daughter's serving and she really like it!
Notes
- Air fryer
- Mini muffin tin
- Aluminum foil
- Toothpicks
- Matches or kitchen torch
TIPS:
- We found that name brand ice cream freezes harder.
- If you have a hard time removing your frozen ice cream balls from the muffin tin, just use a spoon to scoop them out and quickly reshape the ice cream back into a ball.
- You can also make these ahead of time and keep them in the freezer in a freezer bag before air frying. Then, just air fry what you need whenever you want smores icecream!
Nutrition
Nutrition Note
Nutrition calculations are approximate. If you're following a special diet, please calculate your own nutrition values.
Recipe and Read: Children’s Books and Printable Kids Activities for the S’more Ice Cream Recipe
Fun Kids Printable With Smores Recipes:
KIDS BOOKS ABOUT SMORES
This toasted s mores ice cream dessert is fun to pair up with camping children’s books, children’s books about s’mores, or even our cooking through camping fun pack (that you can even do at home)!
- S’mores Indoors by Eric Robertson and Lynda Sino
- Marshall Mellos by JJ Landis
- S Is for S’mores: A Camping Alphabet (Sleeping Bear Press Sports & Hobbies)
What’s more fun than pairing up some reading and kids’ activities with the best s’mores ice cream ever?!
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