Dairy Queen Cookie Crunch Parfait Recipe
A copy of Dairy Queen's cookie crunch parfait: layers of cookie crumbs and vanilla ice cream with the blue Crunchin' Cookie coating poured on top.
- Total
- 15 min
- Serves
- 2
- Calories (est.)
- 620
Dairy Queen's cookie crunch parfait is layers of cookie crumbs and vanilla soft serve with the blue Crunchin' Cookie cone coating poured on top, where it hardens. At home, melt white chocolate with coconut oil, colour it blue, stir in cookie crumbs, and pour it over layers of crushed chocolate sandwich cookies and vanilla ice cream in a cold glass.
What the cookie crunch parfait is
It began as an off-menu order. Dairy Queen's Crunchin' Cookie Dipped Cone, announced in February 2025, has a blue cone coating with cookie pieces, and customers asked for that coating on other treats. Scary Mommy reported on 10 March 2025 that a parfait, with layers of cookie crumbles, vanilla ice cream and the dip poured on top, and a Blizzard had been added to the menu, according to a Dairy Queen spokesperson. Brand Eating listed the coating on a parfait, a Blizzard or a sundae at select locations.
The recipe below is a reconstruction from those descriptions, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Dairy Queen.
Recipe
Cookie Crunch Parfait
A reconstruction of Dairy Queen's cookie crunch parfait — layers of chocolate cookie crumbs and vanilla ice cream under a blue white-chocolate coating that hardens on the ice cream. Two parfaits.
- Prep
- 10 min
- Cook
- 1 min
- Total
- 15 min
- Serves
- 2
- Cuisine
- American
Ingredients
- 2 ounces white chocolate chips (about 1/3 cup)
- 2 teaspoons refined coconut oil
- 1/8 teaspoon oil-based blue food colouring
- 6 chocolate sandwich cookies, crushed
- 2 cups vanilla ice cream
Instructions
- Put two glasses in the freezer for 10 minutes.
- Melt the white chocolate chips with the coconut oil in the microwave in 20-second bursts, stirring each time, until smooth. Stir in the food colouring and 1 tablespoon of the cookie crumbs and let the coating cool for 5 minutes.
- Put 2 tablespoons of cookie crumbs in the bottom of each glass, add 1/2 cup of ice cream and pour a quarter of the coating over it.
- Repeat the layers: crumbs, 1/2 cup of ice cream and another quarter of the coating. Scatter the remaining crumbs on top.
- Wait 30 seconds for the coating to set, then serve.
Nutrition
- Calories:
- 620
Calculated from the ingredient quantities above using the USDA FoodData Central database, then divided by the number of servings. It is an estimate and will vary with the exact products you use.
A coating that sets on the ice cream
The coconut oil is what makes the coating harden. It is solid below about 77°F, as Wikipedia notes, so the mixture turns into a brittle shell within seconds of touching ice cream. That shell is the crunch in the name.
White chocolate needs a colouring made for chocolate, oil-based or a powder; water-based colouring makes it seize. The Crunchin' Cookie Dipped Cone page goes into both points and uses the same coating for dipping.
Cold glasses, quick layers
- Glasses from the freezer keep the first layer from melting against the glass.
- Ice cream straight from the freezer. A parfait is layered, not stirred, and soft ice cream turns the layers into one.
- Coating that has cooled. Five minutes off the heat; warm coating melts a hole into the ice cream.
- Coarse crumbs. Crush the cookies in a bag with a rolling pin and stop while there are still small pieces.
The Blizzard, and other cups
Stirred together and served in a cup, the same ingredients become the cookie crunch Blizzard. Other Dairy Queen copies on this site are the French Silk Pie Blizzard, and for cookies and soft serve from another chain there is the OREO McFlurry.
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