Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins

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My Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins take their inspiration from Neapolitan ice cream, and are flavored with chocolate, strawberry and vanilla. Not only do these easy bake muffins taste great, they are fun to bake too!

Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins

I took inspiration from my kids favorite ice cream flavor when making my Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins. They love all 3 flavors and they are really easy to recreate in this simple muffin recipe.

Breakfast Muffins are a big favorite in our house. The guys all love them because they’re delicious and I like them because the muffin batter can be easily made up ahead of time, perfect for busy mornings!

However, they are also a great fun bake with kids who want to help out in the kitchen.

These Easy Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins are an excellent treat now that we live in Texas, because it gets very hot here.

An added bonus is that local grocery stores have been offering great sale prices on ice cream, so I’ve been stocking the freezer. With three teenage boys, who are all athletes, they have very hearty appetites, so stocking up on sale items is essential to keep the budget on track.

I’ve been working on a few different items, looking at innovative ways to use up the ice cream. In additional to the more traditional scoops, sundaes and milkshakes, I am excited to share today this recipe for Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins.

How to make Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins:

  • Look out all your ingredients ready to start.

Feel free to swap out the jam and use Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream instead!

  • Preheat the oven to 350F degrees and line or grease a muffin tin.
  • Place the oats into a food processor or blender and blend to a smooth consistency to make an oat flour.
  • In a large bowl, sift together the all purpose flour, oat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
  • In a large mixing bowl, add the ice cream, butter and egg and mix together. 
  • Add the flour mixture to the ice cream mixture and mix until just combined.
  • Divide the batter equally between 3 separate bowls. 
  • In one of the bowls mix in the cocoa powder, in the second mix in the jam, and in the third mix in the vanilla extract.
  • Add each of the batter colors into a piping bag or sandwich bag.
  • Pipe the muffin batter into the muffin tins simultaneously (see photo above).
  • Place the muffin tin into the hot oven and bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes out clean.
  • Remove the tray from the oven and remove the muffins from the tin and place on a wire rack to cool.

Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffin ingredients:

  • FLOUR: I use all purpose flour for these muffins.
  • OATS: rolled oats are placed in the blender and blitzed to form an oat flour which is then combined with the regular all purpose flour.
  • SUGAR: I use granulated sugar to make these muffins.
  • BAKING POWDER & BAKING SODA: are both used in this recipe to help the muffins rise.
  • BUTTER: you can use either salted or unsalted butter, either will work.
  • VANILLA ICE CREAM: ice cream is melted and added to the cake batter, but take care not to heat it up.
  • EGG: I use 1 large egg in this cake batter.
  • COCOA POWDER: unsweetened cocoa powder gives the chocolate flavor to the batter.
  • STRAWBERRY JAM: strawberry jam is added to the muffin batter.
  • VANILLA EXTRACT: I like to use vanilla extract as it has the best flavor, you could also use vanilla essence but it’s not so flavourful.

You could also use your favorite vanilla, chocolate, or homemade strawberry ice cream if you prefer!

Can Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins be made ahead?

Make the muffin batter up to a day ahead, place into sandwich or piping bags and store in the refrigerator until you are ready to bake the muffins.

How long can you store Ice Cream Muffins?

Once baked, these delicious muffins can be stored in an airtight container on the counter top for 3-4 days, assuming they last that long (they never do in my kitchen).

Can I freeze Muffins?

These muffins, can be baked and once cool, placed into an airtight container and stored in the freezer for up to 3 months. When ready to eat, remove the muffins from the freezer and defrost thoroughly before enjoying.

Recipe tips:

  • Take care when melting the ice cream, you only want it to melt, not to heat up otherwise you risk splitting the muffin batter.
  • This muffin batter is really easy to work with so if there is a flavor that you don’t like then leave it out and only make a double flavored muffin instead.
  • You can easily grease the muffin tray with butter, but I prefer to use paper muffin liners. This makes getting the muffins out of the tray a whole lot easier.
  • To make Gluten Free Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins swap the all purpose flour for gluten free all purpose flour and ensure the rolled oats and baking powder you are using are also gluten free.

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Yield: 12

Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins

Neapolitan Ice Cream Muffins
Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 30 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes

Ingredients

  • 1 ½ cup flour spooned and leveled
  • ½ cup old fashioned oats
  • ¼ cup granulated sugar
  • 1 teaspoon baking powder
  • ½ teaspoon baking soda
  • ¼ teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick butter melted
  • 1 ½ cup vanilla ice cream melted but not hot
  • 1 large egg
  • 1 tablespoon unsweetened cocoa powder
  • 1 tablespoon strawberry jam
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Instructions

Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

  
Ready a muffin tin with liners or grease.

     
In a food processor or blender, add oats and blend until a flour.


In a large bowl, sift together the oat flour, sugar, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.

 
In a large mixing bowl, add ice cream, butter, and egg and mix together.

      
Add the flour mixture to the ice cream mixture and mix until just combined.

    
Separate batter equally into 3 separate bowls.

    
In one of the bowls mix in the cocoa powder, in the second mix in the jam, and in the third mix in the vanilla.

      
Add each of the batter colors into a piping bag or sandwich bag, and pipe into muffin tins simultaneously.

  
Bake for 30 minutes or until a toothpick comes
out clean.


Remove from oven and allow muffins to cool
outside of the tin.



Nutrition Information:

Yield:

12

Serving Size:

1

Amount Per Serving: Calories: 201Total Fat: 10gSaturated Fat: 6gTrans Fat: 0gUnsaturated Fat: 3gCholesterol: 43mgSodium: 218mgCarbohydrates: 24gFiber: 1gSugar: 9gProtein: 3g

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31 Comments

  1. This is really a cool way to make muffins! Very neat idea and kids would enjoy them!

  2. Ah, Neapolitan muffins! For those times when your realize chocolate on its own is just not enough!

  3. These look like the biggest hit with my family. Ice cream muffins and tasty looking –worth eating dinner for this treat.

  4. Sounds a little tough for me but I’ll give it a go just to try these out – thanks.

  5. 5 stars
    These look and sound fantastic. And I now have several new recipes to make this Easter. Thanks.

  6. 4 stars
    WOW! I recently pinned a similar recipe like this, but using Butter Pecan ice cream. I like the different colors on these muffins. They look fun, besides delicious ? Thank you again for sharing another ice cream recipe ?

  7. These look great! I am not a big fan of strawberry so I might change that flavor to something different, however, a three flavored muffin is very cool. I was thinking maybe Spumoni flavored muffins as that is a three flavored muffin using cherry instead of strawberry. I’m not a good cook or baker so the directions seem inundating to be honest. Just have to try the recipe and see how it turns out 🙂

  8. Neapolitan ice cream reminds me of my childhood, because that was the ice cream my mom always had in our home. These muffins are a wonderful twist on the ice cream that I enjoy. I would love to make these for my daughters. I love the tri-colors and flavors.

  9. Muffins and cupcakes are about the only thing I bake. These look delicious and am looking forward to trying them.

  10. What a cute breaky!! I love it! I figured the batter would be stiff enough to scoop the 3 flavs in separately but to do it all at once is a great idea!

    Mishelle G

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