Churn the pistachio ice cream. Then using the instructions on your ice cream maker, add the pistachio mixture to your freezer bowl and run for 20-25 minutes. The ice cream should be the consistency of soft serve. In the final 5 minutes of churning your ice cream, add in reserved chopped pistachios. Assemble the spumoni ice cream.
The three flavors in classic spumoni ice cream are pistachio ice cream, cherry ice cream and either chocolate or vanilla ice cream. When made with vanilla ice cream, the three colors – green, red and white – represent the Italian flag. I’ve included the ingredients you’ll need for the three varieties of ice cream.
Like a layered sundae, this Italian ice cream dessert requires zero cooking and is easy to assemble for birthdays and gatherings. Learn how to make spumoni at home.
Sometimes it is served in a terrine or bombe, other times it is served as you see here, in scoops of ice cream with three distinct flavors/colors. I like to serve spumoni ice cream with a dollop of whipped cream and a cherry on top, just like they do at the Old Spaghetti Factory.