French Silk Pie Blizzard Recipe

Dairy Queen's French Silk Pie Blizzard is soft serve blended with chocolate chunks, pie pieces and cocoa fudge and finished with whipped topping. At home, bake a piece of pie crust and break it up, soften three cups of vanilla ice cream, stir in fudge sauce by hand or with a stand mixer, and fold in chopped chocolate and the crust. It is stirred, not blended, and makes three servings.

What the French Silk Pie Blizzard is

Dairy Queen's fall menu announcement of 26 August 2024 lists the French Silk Pie Blizzard Treat as a returning flavour: choco chunks, pie pieces and cocoa fudge blended with soft serve and garnished with whipped topping.

It is a seasonal item. In October 2026 the Blizzard menu on Dairy Queen's website does not list it. The recipe below is a reconstruction from the description, and MakeFoodLovely is not connected with Dairy Queen.

Recipe

French Silk Pie Blizzard

A reconstruction of Dairy Queen's French Silk Pie Blizzard — vanilla ice cream stirred with fudge sauce, chocolate chunks and pieces of baked pie crust, topped with whipped cream. Three servings.

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Prep

15 min

Cook

10 min

Total

45 min

Serves

3

Cuisine

American

Ingredients

• 4 ounces refrigerated pie crust (half of one rolled crust)
• 3 cups vanilla ice cream
• 3 tablespoons hot fudge sauce, at room temperature
• 2 ounces semisweet chocolate, chopped into small chunks
• 1/4 cup heavy cream, whipped (about 1/2 cup)

Instructions

1. Heat the oven to 425°F. Lay the pie crust flat on a parchment-lined baking sheet, prick it all over with a fork and bake for 9 to 11 minutes, until golden. Let it cool completely and break it into pieces the size of a fingernail.
2. Put a mixing bowl in the freezer for 15 minutes. Leave the ice cream on the counter for 10 minutes, until it gives when pressed.
3. Put the ice cream and the fudge sauce in the cold bowl and beat with a stand mixer or a sturdy spoon for 20 to 30 seconds, until the ice cream is thick and streaked with fudge.
4. Fold in the chocolate chunks and the pie crust pieces.
5. Whip the cream to soft peaks. Spoon the ice cream into three glasses, top it with the whipped cream and serve at once.

Nutrition

Calories:

680

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.

Stirred, not blended

A blender with milk makes a milkshake. A Blizzard is ice cream that has been worked just enough to turn thick and smooth, with the pieces left whole.

• A cold bowl keeps the ice cream from melting at the edges.
• Softened, not melted. Ten minutes on the counter; the tub should give under a thumb.
• Half a minute. Longer beating warms it into soup.

The same method is behind the OREO McFlurry on this site.

Pie pieces that stay crisp

French silk pie is a chocolate cream pie in a pastry crust, and the pie pieces in the cup stand for that crust. Bake the crust until it is properly golden: pale pastry turns soft in ice cream within minutes, well-baked pastry holds for the time it takes to eat.

Crushed shortbread cookies, about 3/4 cup, replace the pie crust if the oven stays off.

Fudge and chocolate chunks

The fudge sauce goes in at room temperature. Hot, it melts the ice cream; cold from the refrigerator, it stays in lumps. The chocolate is chopped small, about the size of a pea, since large pieces freeze hard.

For a darker cup, use chocolate ice cream for one of the three cups.

Other Dairy Queen treats on this site

The Crunchin' Cookie Dipped Cone has a blue cookie shell, and the same coating goes into the cookie crunch Blizzard and the cookie crunch parfait.