Healthy Ice Cream
Creamy ice cream anyone?One of my favourite weekly indulgences is a scoop of good quality gelato at my local gelato store. The weather lately has been extremely hot, and all i have been craving is some creamy ice cream to cool me down!
Ingredients
Vanilla bean
- 2 cups canned coconut milk OR full cream milk
- 1/2 cup vanilla protein powder
- optional: If protein powder is not sweetened add 4-5 tbsp sweetener of choice i like coconut sugar but if it is sweetened you may only need 1-2 tbsp sweetener
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Peanut butter fudge
- 3 cups almond milk Or coconut milk
- 0.5 cups peanut butter
- 0.25 cups medjool dates blended OR chopped into pieces
- pinch of salt
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
Creamy Dark chocolate
- 3 cups almond milk 1cup=250ml
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder
- 1/2 cup nut butter of choice
- 1/3 +2tbsp coconut sugar OR xylitol OR maple syrup
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
- *Optional dark chocolate chips
Milk & Honey
- 3 cups almond milk OR full cream milk
- 1/2 cup raw honey
- 1/4 cup +2 tbsp nut butter such as almond/cashew/macadamia
- 1 tsp pure vanilla extract
- pinch of salt
Toasted coconut
- 3 cups full fat canned coconut milk
- 2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1/2 cup toasted desiccated coconut i toast mine in a pan
- 1 tsp vanilla
Mango
- 1 cup blended mango
- 2 cans coconut milk
- 1/4 cup granulated sugar OR sticky sweetener
- 1 tsp lemon juice
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
Instructions
- Place a loaf pan into the freezer.
- Place all ingredients in a high speed blender and blend all ingredients well. Pour the mixture into a pot and heat up to a medium heat on the stove top until sweetener has dissolved into the mixture.
- If you have an ice cream machine, pour mixture inside and follow manufacturers instructions.
- If you don’t, wait for mixture to cool then pour into loaf pan and place in freezer. To avoid it from becoming icy, mix your ice cream every 15 mins with a spoon for the first hour or so.
- If this is too tedious, pour cooled ice cream mixture into ice cube trays and freeze. Once frozen, blend the cubes into a smooth ice cream texture
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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