Lemon Olive-Oil Ice Cream Recipe (2024)

This ice cream is fresh-tasting, light, delicious, and perfect for spring-- although some credit should go to Melissa Clark since this recipe is a complete riff of her olive oil lemon bars. We used Enzo EVOO which worked well. One bit of advice: put the last teaspoon of zest in *after* churning and just swirl it into the ice cream in the container with an offset spatula (we had to do that anyway since the zest just clumped on the churner piece).

I suspect the important thing will be to get the correct olive oil.

So I made it with full fat coconut milk and a cup of coconut cream. I did everything else as written. Awesome experiment. Tasty!

Is there any way to churn by hand or some other way if I don’t own an ice cream maker?

What a delicious recipe and I used my new harvest, Bellucci Sicilia PGI Organic extra virgin olive oil in this. It makes it extremely smooth and did not harden. Loving this and my family too.

Great recipe! Be sure to use extra virgin olive oil - it has a fresher and fruiter finish. Bellucci was a good brand, and organic also. Ripe lemons and key.

Make sure you really whisk / emulsify the olive oil into the mixture or else you’ll end up with beads of oil in the final product.

This is ridiculously delicious ice cream. It’s perfect. I’m never going to lose my quarantine weight after discovering this ice cream and I don’t even care. It’s PERFECT.

great with crushed lemon infused olive oil (recommend Basirico), lower the lemon by a tablespoon or so, or just enjoy the added intensity. An amazing addition to this is adding a handful of chopped basil leaves to the custard when you let it cool, and then straining them out before churning, to make a great lemon-basil ice cream (also great with thyme, rosemary or sage, but be careful not to use too much).

Really yummy! I made this recipe as stated but let the custard mature in the fridge for a full day to let the last addition of zest infuse a little longer. It came out of the churn pretty soft so froze up really hard and dense, but not icy. I made sure to add the oil really slowly like I was making an emulsion, since other comments mention the oil freezing in chunks. The lemon flavor is intense and refreshing, but maybe overpowered my olive oil. Overall really tasty and would probably make again

This ice cream is delicious. I was a little worried at first adding 1/4 cup olive oil but whisking it in the custard with the lemon juice seemed to make the custard even more silky and smooth. I found adding the last teaspoon of zest in the custard before the cooling/refrigerator process didn't cause it to clump up while churning. In fact, it added more lemony zip by marinating in the custard. Just make sure to really mix custard before adding it to churning ice cream machine. Sooo good!

I made this substituting lime for lemon; absolutely delicious! Came out very much like a Key Lime pie ice cream. Well worth it for fellow lime lovers out there!

This was delicious! Made recipe as written, keeping the custard in fridge overnight, except I forgot to whisk it once more before churning. Don’t think it mattered. Followed other comments and added the last teaspoon of zest after churning, just folding it into the ice cream. Served topped with olive oil (I used California Olive Ranch extra Virgin arbequina) and Maldon salt and it was truly divine! Taste is reminiscent of a lemon bar. Mmm.

I served with Haskapberry compote; our guests loved it. As noted by others, good olive oil is key.

The flavor is very good, but the mouth feel is odd. I served it with a homemade strawberry ice cream and that was a mistake. It made the odd feel more obvious and it was definitely was not as popular. Mostly likely being an olive oil cream is the issue. I also served it with a rhubarb snacking cake and with that the texture didn’t come up as a distraction.

Made the base before I realized I had forgotten 2 parts of my ice cream maker back home. Looked up the best way to make ice cream without a maker given the custard base: freeze the base flat in a ziplock. Then, when frozen solid, break up chunks and whirl in food processor until airy, then put in pre-chilled container, freeze again. Credit to Jeni from Jeni's! As for the recipe, delicious.. maybe too lemony? Next time half juice and reduce zest, and maybe a touch of vanilla?

This was fantastic - I used California Olive Ranch Arbequina Olive Oil and allowed the custard mixture to chill overnight. I did not have any issues with the zest or oil clumping, but I also made sure to very slowly drizzle in the oil when whisking, that may have helped avoid the second issue. The flavor is super creamy and lemony, but the oil and salt definitely add that hint of a savory edge. I was a bit worried about how this would turn out, but was not at all disappointed!

I made this recipe in the much easier, non-cooked way, as according to Ben & Jerry's old recipe book, with the same ingredients as stated here, and it was great: whisk the eggs, then whisk the sugar in. Add the cream and milk, and viola! An uncooked ice-cream base you can add anything to, such as the olive oil, lemon and lemon zest. Then you also don't need to wait four hours to let the mixture cool, either.

I liked this ice cream ok: the taste was good, but the olive oil makes hard small chunks that are not super pleasant, although I mixed the ice cream paste before churning as recommended. Would skip it all together to make a nice creamy lemon ice-cream.

great with crushed lemon infused olive oil (recommend Basirico), lower the lemon by a tablespoon or so, or just enjoy the added intensity. An amazing addition to this is adding a handful of chopped basil leaves to the custard when you let it cool, and then straining them out before churning, to make a great lemon-basil ice cream (also great with thyme, rosemary or sage, but be careful not to use too much).

Delicious- made as written with Bartolini Toscano EVOO. Added a sprinkle of salt on top...so divine

What a fantastic finished product. The olive oil gives such a velvety texture to the ice cream and the flavor is spot on. Richly lemon but not too sweet.

Something about the flavor profile (lemon, olive oil, salt, eggs) reminds me of roast chicken. I could not get this out of my head when eating it. Probably just me.

This was delicious! Made recipe as written, keeping the custard in fridge overnight, except I forgot to whisk it once more before churning. Don’t think it mattered. Followed other comments and added the last teaspoon of zest after churning, just folding it into the ice cream. Served topped with olive oil (I used California Olive Ranch extra Virgin arbequina) and Maldon salt and it was truly divine! Taste is reminiscent of a lemon bar. Mmm.

This is ridiculously delicious ice cream. It’s perfect. I’m never going to lose my quarantine weight after discovering this ice cream and I don’t even care. It’s PERFECT.

Lemon verbena. Used 2 cups milk and 1 c. Cream

Make sure you really whisk / emulsify the olive oil into the mixture or else you’ll end up with beads of oil in the final product.

I made this substituting lime for lemon; absolutely delicious! Came out very much like a Key Lime pie ice cream. Well worth it for fellow lime lovers out there!