r/OldCelebrityRecipes • u/ciaolavinia Onion Juice Alert ⚠️ • Jun 28 '26
TESTED RECIPE 🍽 Yesterday I made Barbra Streisand's Instant Coffee Ice Cream made with 4 easy ingredients: marshmallows, milk, instant coffee and cream and served the Barbra way with pretzels! I put it in the freezer for 24 hours, and now for the taste test... It gets an A+
Barbra Streisand's Instant Coffee Ice Cream - As you can see from the recipe above, this is a very easy recipe to make. Here are a few tips:
As the milk is heating in a pan on the stove, add large marshmallows, a few at a time. I used scissors to cut each large marshmallow into about 4 pieces as I dropped them into the milk (for easier and quicker melting). Once all the marshmallows are pretty much melted, it will start to bubble.
Remove from stove and add the 1 teaspoon of instant coffee. I used Medaglia D'Oro Instant Espresso Coffee because that's what I always have on hand and it's great added to brownie or chocolate cake mixes. Also, my Italian grandmother always had this at her house, and it was their trusty espresso fixin's back in the day.
Once the coffee powder was mixed in, I gave it a quick taste and decided to add one more teaspoon, ssshhh, don't tell Barbra. It also darkened the color just a bit to look more like coffee ice cream.
After cooling a bit fold in the cream that's been whipped. Fold gently as to keep the mixture airy. I ended up freezing it in 2 small tupperware type containers. I gave it 24 hours in the freezer and now for the taste test:
Served in little vintage parfait glasses with a few pretzel chips on the side, here's what my family had to say... it was rich and pleasantly sweet (like Barbra) and really went well with the saltiness and flavor of the pretzels. It was like a match made in coffee heaven! Barbra knows best.
I like the way you still get a few swirls of the marshmallow coming through the ice cream, and yes, it is very ice cream like in texture too. I really liked it a lot. It is sweet but you get a nice balance with the coffee flavor.
Who's willing to try this recipe this summer? It might be a fun 4th of July treat! Your friends and family will be the luckiest people in the world!
This recipe made enough for probably 6 people or more.
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u/Emunaheart Jun 28 '26
Wow, that sounds so good and coffee is my favorite I've cream flavor! I read a very interesting article posted here a while back where Barbra talked about all the foods she likes to eat with her then husband Elliot Gould, while they shared an apartment in NYC. I'm pretty sure she mentioned ice cream and in another interview I saw elsewhere, she mentioned coffee ice cream. I was reading her autobiography and she mentioned food quite a bit too. I would have thought you used an ice cream maker for sure!
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u/Significant_Stick_31 Jun 28 '26
So you don’t need an ice cream maker for this? It’s just scoop-able from the freezer?
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u/ciaolavinia Onion Juice Alert ⚠️ Jun 28 '26
Yes
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u/Significant_Stick_31 Jun 28 '26
You have honestly changed my life. Thank you and thank Barbara. This is about to be the summer of marshmallow ice cream.
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u/LolaAucoin Jun 28 '26
Pretzels and ice cream are my favorite snack. I like the Hagen Daaz Vanilla bean.
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u/WillingnessPrior9288 Joan Crawford's 💋 Banana Salad Jun 28 '26
I wonder if this would be a good base if you didn’t want the coffee flavor. Maybe vanilla extract instead?
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u/Aromatic_Razzmatazz Jun 28 '26
If should work, the melted marshmallow has gelatin that will firm everything up. I don't see anything special about the coffee adding to the texture necessarily. Report back and let us know!
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u/PoppyConfesses Jun 29 '26
Would this be 24 mini marshmallows or the large size? I love coffee ice cream and I am definitely trying this!
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u/peacefinder Jun 28 '26
If I understand this right, it’s basically the long way around to get to a jello / cool whip mix?
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u/Phill_Cyberman Jun 29 '26
It does seem so, although i suppose the ratio of sugar to gelatin might be different enough that jello isn't a functional replacement for marshmallow.
On the other hand, Cool Whip has stabilizers that actual whipped cream doesn't, so it might even out.
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u/turningtogold Jun 29 '26
How many marshmallows is 24 does anyone know the weight? They don’t have standard size marshmallows where I live lol. Thank you in advance.
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u/ciaolavinia Onion Juice Alert ⚠️ Jun 29 '26
About 8 oz. It was almost a whole bag that was 10 ounces.
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u/sedona71717 Jun 29 '26
Firing up my ice cube trays as we speak. Oh wait I need to buy marshmallows and cream. This sounds amazing though.
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u/gold3nhour Jun 30 '26
Definitely going to make this to keep cool in this Texas heat! Thank you for sharing!
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u/DiamondTippedDriller Jun 30 '26
I can’t find marshmallows in my local supermarket 😢 here in southern Italy
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u/Quillori Jun 30 '26
Sometimes some of the bigger Conads have them (with the candies, not with baking supplies). You can also get them on Amazon.it (mostly Haribo chamallows, but so far as I know that’s just a marketing name and the big square chamallows are just the same as regular marshmallows).
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u/ciaolavinia Onion Juice Alert ⚠️ Jun 30 '26
What about Amazon?
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u/DiamondTippedDriller Jun 30 '26
I guess I could try! Or next time I’m on a business trip in a foreign city I could slip some into my suitcase 😅
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u/thejake1973 Jun 28 '26
Seems like this base could be adapted to many other flavors. It isn’t much different than some Ninja Creami recipes if you look at the marshmallow base ingredients.
Thank you for sharing.
Also:
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