Turn your favorite soda pop into soda pop ice cream with only 3 ingredients!
Friday we flew to Utah for a nephew’s wedding. It was 63 degrees in Portland when we boarded the plane. Two hours later we got off the plane in Utah and it was 95 degrees. We went from Spring to Summer in two hours! It was a little bit of a shock to the system!!
95 degree weather calls for a cold soda and ice cream. Today’s Soda Pop Ice Cream Recipe is a combination of the two – a cold soda and ice cream. It may or may not get up to 95 degrees in Portland any time soon but we can still eat ice cream.
This ice cream recipe is super easy to make and only requires three ingredients. Your favorite choice of soda pop, one can of sweetened condensed milk and a cup of whole milk.
I picked three of my favorite flavors of soda pop to experiment with. My first, was of course, root beer. It totally reminded me of the root beer swirls we use to get at The Spot Drive In in Kenosha, Wisconsin where the girls roller skated out to our car and hung the tray on the window!
And then I used orange for a yummy creamsicle flavor effect! One of my favorite flavors of all times.
And then I tried another of my favorite flavors – Black Cherry. I loved it.
Like I said, homemade ice cream doesn’t get much easier than Soda Pop Ice Cream. Use 4 cups of your favorite soda. Make sure your soda is cold, it will freeze a lot easier and your ice cream maker will not have to work as hard.
Mix the soda pop, sweetened condensed milk and whole milk together and pour it into your ice cream maker. I use a 2 qt. Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker.
After the ice cream is formed I put it in the freezer to hardened up. This recipe makes a nice “icy” type of ice cream. Love it!
So the next time your weather calls for a cold soda pop and ice cream give Soda Pop Ice Cream a try. What flavor will you try?
Try some of my other favorite ice cream recipes here:
- 4 C cold soda pop any flavor
- 1 14 oz. can sweetened condensed milk
- 1 C whole milk
- Mix all ingredients together and pour into 2 qt. ice cream maker.
- Freeze as directed
- Place in freezer after finished to harden up
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Oh my gosh, I have to get an ice cream maker!
love the ice cream idea! I did something similar and make popsicles:)
Love the idea of popsicles – yum!
I’m thinking grape soda would make a yummy ice cream — and probably grapefruit would, too. Your pictures make it look so refreshing! I’m curious, though… With 2 of the 3 ingredients being sugary, do you find it overly sweet at all?
I think grape soda would be yummy. I use to make grape ice cream sodas as a kid. It is sweet but isn’t ice cream suppose to be sweet? I think the icyness of it cuts the sweetness some.
Would it work with diet soda?
Given all the sugar in the sweetened condensed milk not sure the substitution of diet soda is really worth it? What’s a little more sugar!? I have never tried it with diet.
Love using IKEA tealights for dessert, too!!! 🙂
My husband’s family has been making Big Red ice cream every summer for over 50 years. It’s basically the same as the recipe you posted except they add a carton of frozen strawberries to the mix.
The ice cream idea is totally awesome. I will have to get an ice cream maker and try making it myself.
Those recipes sound yummy! I’ve never had an icecream maker. What model is yours?
Mine is a 2 qt. Cuisinart.
YAY!!! i love this! yummy!! and i LOVE that you linked up with me today!! xoxo
I love making ice cream, I tried once with soda and failed so I can’t wait to try this out!
I really do need to find myself and ice cream maker!! Love the soda pop ice cream idea! Perfect for this 100* heat we have been having here!!!
I don’t like drinking soda pop, but I’m pretty sure I would love it this way! Gonna have to go out and buy some just so I can try it. The orange looks the best to me. Reminds me of creamsicles, and I love those!
Kara, It totally tastes like a creamsicle which is one of my favorites. Hope you like it. The root beer is great too if you like root beer floats.
Yum!! Black cherry soda is one of my favorites, too. What brand do you use…I’m always looking to widen my black cherry horizons! 🙂
I love Black Cherry. The only brand I could find at Winco was Shasta. I have had Thomas Kemper Black Cherry before too and it is great.
Totally loving how easy this is!
It is so easy you are going to want to make it over and over again!!
I tried this with Big Red soda for a Fourth of July BBQ, and it didn’t work…maybe it’s because I used 2% milk instead of whole? Oh well. I’ll try it with the exact ingredients next time!
What happened? Did it not set up? The first time I did it it didn’t set up well because the soda was not cold. Be sure your soda is cold.
The fat from whole milk helps with the freezing processing, the better the ingredient the better the product.
I use I can crushed pineapple when making the orange crushed ice cream.
I’ve shared and pinned and will be making this one! Thanks so much.
I tried the root beer but it didnt set up for me! I’m bummed it tastes amazing but just very runny. I’m going to try to put it back in once my bowl is frozen again. I was wondering if anyone else has tried half & half though. My store didn’t have small cartons of whole milk in so I used full fat half & half. I figured usually the more fat in the ice cream the better it tastes…unfortunately!
I’m from UT and seeing this posted made me home sick !! I wanna try this recipe
I like to put a can if crushed pineapple with with the orange soda yummy
I heard of a very similar recipe. Cold orange pop, sweetened condensed milk and 8 oz crushed pineapple (drained)…no milk. Yup, I believe it’s time to break out the ice cream maker. Gonna try this one soon.Thanks for posting!
Love the idea of pineapple in it! Get that ice cream maker out!!
Just made this with Diet Dr. Pepper left over from a party. I also used half a cup of heavy cream and half a cup of whole milk instead of just whole milk (all the fat from the cream is okay cause I used diet soda right? LOL) and of course the sweetened condensed milk. I accidentally overfilled my ice cream maker because it’s only the 1 and a half quart machine by Cuisinart. So I ended up without about a cup of the mixture left. I stuck it in the fridge and sorta don’t know what to do with it…
BUT the ice cream turned out fabulous!!! Great recipe. It’s a little different in texture from the normal ice cream you make, it’s a bit more icy/slushy. I ate some right away in a cup with a spoon (like a milkshake) and put the rest in the freezer to harden. I can’t wait to try it with other sodas, I think cream soda would be awesome.
Love to know that it worked with diet and I bet the Dr. Pepper was delicious!!!
I was making this ice cream 30 years ago. My favorite was orange pop with sweetened condensed milk and crushed pineapple, but all flavors of pop are good. Time to make it again.
This sounds fantastic but I was wondering is there a way to make it without an ice cream maker since I don’t see me getting one anytime soon. The whole living on a budget thing but this would be a good splurge family night treat.
I have never made it without an ice cream maker. You could try partially freezing it and then beating it with a mixer a bit and then freezing it again but actually have no idea how it would turn out – sorry!!
Debbie B – This is Soda Pop ice Cream is hugely popular in Hawaii. I don’t have an electric mixer or ice cream maker. When you’re doing by hand: 1. he trick is to slowly pour the soda into the milk because you need to keep the carbonated bubbles. 2. Then stir the mixture a few times. 3. Pour into freeze container for 1-1/2 – 2 hours. 4.take out of freezer. Mixture may have ice crystals. Don’t scrape it off. Take a spoon and mix enough times to incorporate a lot of air and the crystals. 5. Put back into freezer for 1-1/2 -2 hours. Then repeat step 5. You’ll keep repeating step for at least 8 hours. 24 hour is better. 6. When ready, it should be super smooth ice cream. Strawberry and orange are great!
Two ways to freeze ice cream without an ice cream freezer. Both are fun for kids or for parties/reunions, etc. I’ve done them both with various ice cream recipes with success.
1. Roll the can method. Large and small cans/containers with lids that will nest together. Put the ice cream mixture in the small can and seal it well. Put it into the large can and pack the space with ice and salt and seal it. Roll the can back and forth until the ice is melted. Carefully rinse the smaller can with cold water (you don’t want salt in your ice cream) and check. If not frozen enough, repeat the process. It depends a lot on the amount of ice you were able to pack in the space.
2. Zipper bag method. Similar to the can method, but use small and large zipper bags (freezer style works best) and play catch. Freezes faster, but makes a smaller amount, just right for the two who are playing catch with the bag!
My family always used Nehi Peach soda to make ice cream. I think I’m going to have to go get an ice cream maker and try your versions. 😀
Oh, the recipe was 6 cans of cold soda and 1 can of sweetened condensed milk in the ice cream maker.
Love the idea of Peach Nehi! Yum!
Tried it with cherry-lime soda and half cup chopped marischino cherries, and was great
Love the idea of cherry lime soda!
When I saw your recipe for Soda Pop Ice Cream, it brought back wonderful memories from my childhood. We had a recipe that we used then and we still use it today. Now, this goes way back to when Orange Crush came in the brown bottles (nothing tastes as good as it did when we were kids). I have adapted the recipe to today’s bottling of Orange Crush. This is made in an electric ice cream churn or a hand cranked one. One 2 liter Orange Crush, one can sweetened condensed milk, one small can crushed pineapple, (ice and rock salt for the churn). Put the Orange Crush, sweetened condensed milk, and pineapple in the churn; cover, add ice and rock salt and churn. Eat slowly because it causes brain freeze!
I forgot the name of the recipe…Orange Pineapple Sherbert!
Cindy, I love those recipes that transport me back to my childhood! So glad this one did for you. Love the idea of your version with the crushed pineapple.
Thanks for sharing.
The Spot does not have the roller skaters,but the food is still great and your ice cream recipe sounds yum!
A friend just made us some ice cream a couple weeks ago using just sweetened condensed milk and cream soda. That led me to search for recipes online and I found this! I will definitely have to try! I already have a Cuisinart ice cream maker!
Have fun making ice cream!
Just tried this with Peach New York Seltzer. I did a half-batch, since I only have a 1 1/2-qt ice cream maker (and only two bottles of the soda.) It turned out really well–and I’m not even a fan of peach!
In a couple of days, I’m going to try it with Moxie.
Luke, So glad you loved it too – it is fun to experiment with different sodas.
Update: Moxie did not work out–it was still soupy after 20 minutes. I’m pretty sure it’s because Moxie has considerably less sugar than most sodas. I’ll have to figure something else out for that one.
I went back to New York Seltzer today; used the Root Beer flavor for a batch. I only churned it 15 minutes this time, and I think it turned out really well.
This was delicious! I made it with root beer and loved it, but next time I’d love to try the creamsicle version.
So glad you loved it too It’s fun to try different flavors.
Always this recipe was my dad’s favorite icecream. In memory of him, I ran across ur version just to make sure my version was not lacking anything. However, I was reading the comments and no one mention the soda flavor I always used to make this recipe which is so delicious. My family and I always used CREAM SODA and you would not want any other flavor after try this flavor. Or maybe it’s a Louisiana thang!!Gotta try it!!
I love that this was your dad’s favorite! I’ll have to try cream soda!
This looks so good? Any idea if I can successfully make this df with whole canned coconut milk?
Not much help, just have to experiment with it. Let me know if you come up with a great version!
I first tried a different version of this ice cream recipe and it just was not creamy enough. Then I found your recipe and tried it and it’s absolutely perfect! My FIL is my official homemade ice cream taste-tester and he loved it too. I’m going to try your Key Lime Pie Ice Cream recipe next. Thanks so much for posting this … I’m thrilled!!
I am so glad you liked it! I am a total ice cream addict!! I have lots and lots of ice cream recipes. Enjoy!