Graham Central Station Ice Cream Recipe (2024)

Ingredients needed:

This is a quick overview of the ingredients you’ll need for this Graham Central Station Ice Cream Recipe. Specific measurements and full recipe instructions are in the printable recipe card below.

• Heavy Cream – you can use heavy cream or heavy whipping cream for this recipe, this keeps the ice cream super rich and creamy with the right amount of fat content.
• Whole Milk – Stick with whole milk for the best fat ratios, for a super creamy ice cream
• Light Brown Sugar – I like brown sugar for this recipe to give it a more caramel color and flavor, you can substitute granulated sugar instead
• Vanilla extract – helps add a little flavor to the ice cream base.
• Graham Cracker Squares – these are soaked to make a graham cracker flavored ice cream base, and then the crushed graham crackers are made into a graham swirl (similar to an unbaked graham cracker pie crust, but swirled throughout the ice cream)
• Salt – just a pinch of salt to balance the flavor.
• Chocolate Covered Honeycomb Candies – these add the best crunchy bites
• Mini chocolate chips – these add a nice extra burst of chocolate and texture to the ice cream
• Granulated Sugar – for the graham cracker crumb
• Melted Butter – for the graham cracker crumb

How to make Graham Central Station Ice Cream?

1. Add the milk and graham crackers to a medium bowl and stir them together. Cover the bowl and let the cookies soak for about 1 hour. The graham crackers should totally dissolve, but you can blend the mixture up in a blender, or push it through a fine mesh strainer to remove any pieces that are bigger.
2. Add the graham cracker milk mixture to a large bowl, and add in the heavy cream, brown sugar, vanilla extract and salt for a couple minutes until the sugar starts to dissolve.
3. Pour the mixture into a prepared 2QT ice cream maker and let it run for 25 to 30 minutes, according to your manufactures directions until its like soft serve ice cream.
4. While the ice cream is churning, crush the remaining graham crackers into a fine crumb. Mix the crumbs, granulated sugar and butter in a small bowl, and set them aside until needed.
5. The last 5 minutes of churning in the ice cream maker, add the honey comb candy pieces, and mini chocolate chips and let them mix in until mixed evenly into the ice cream.
6. Scoop 1/3 of the ice cream into a 2 QT container (a 9×5 bread pan works great for this) and sprinkle about 1/3 of the graham cracker crumble. Then add another 1/3 of the ice cream, more graham cracker, more ice cream, and the final crumble on top of the ice cream. Cover the container with plastic wrap and foil, or a lid and place it in the freezer for at least 6 hours, or overnight to harden into a scoopable ice cream.

Tips and Tricks:

• Don’t forget to pre-freeze your ice cream machine bowl. Mine takes at least 12 hours to be frozen solid in a very cold deep freezer so it will churn my ice cream, some might take 24 hours. Leave it in your freezer to use whenever you’re ready if you have extra room. (Also, I needed a 2QT ice cream maker for this, if yours is 1.5 you’ll probably have to churn the ice cream in batches)
• If you can’t find honeycomb candy, and don’t want to make it either – you can try using chopped up toffee pieces, or Heath bits, or Buncha Crunch for a similar crunchy texture, but different flavor.
• This recipe makes about 2 quarts of ice cream, that means it makes about 8, 1 cup servings of ice cream.
• Top your bowls of ice cream with salty caramel sauce, and top with sprinkles of more honey comb candy.

What flavor is Graham Central Station Ice Cream?

Graham central station is graham flavored ice cream with a crunchy graham cracker swirl and loaded with chocolate covered honeycomb candies throughout.

How to store Graham Cracker Ice Cream?

Store this homemade graham central station ice cream in a freezer safe container with a lid for up to 1 month for the best results. If you keep the ice cream sealed tightly in the coldest part of your freezer it will stay good for longer periods of time. After a longer time the ice cream texture may become grainy, and may get ice crystals on top.

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• French Vanilla Ice Cream
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