What to do when the weather gets warm? Make ice cream. We've been making "ice cream" quite often lately. Last week the temperature lingered in the low 80's for most of the week. This week has been beautiful too; in the 70's.Last week my daughter, Lily, concocted her own ice cream using cashews, water, agave nectar, frozen bananas, cherries, and raspberries. She also added a half of an avocado, a few spoonfuls of raw coconut butter, and a splash of vanilla. I wrote the recipe down somewhere. She made it in our Vita-Mix and it was delicious!
Today I wanted to share with you a dairy-free ice cream made in an ice cream maker. I have a Cuisinart Ice Cream Maker that works beautifully and won't break the bank. Making ice cream in a Vita-Mix or food processor certainly works, but the end product lacks that creamy, ice dreamy mouth feel of true ice cream.
Last September, Tom made a white nectarine ice cream using the ice cream maker that was so good I wanted to hide the container and eat it all myself! I have that recipe scribbled down somewhere. Maybe later in the summer I will share it. And now, the strawberry ice cream....
Strawberry Coconut Ice Cream
This ice cream needs to be made in an ice cream maker. It can also be made into popsicles. After pouring the liquid into my machine, I still had about a cup that wouldn't fit - so that be came 2 popsicles. Serve ice cream with sliced fresh strawberries and fresh mint leaves for a cooling summer dessert.
2 cans full fat coconut milk
2 to 2 1/2 cups frozen strawberries (about 1 pound)
1/2 cup honey or agave nectar
1 tablespoon vanilla extract
1 to 2 teaspoons lemon flavoring (optional)
Place all ingredients into a blender or Vita-Mix and blend until smooth and creamy. Immediately pour the liquid into your ice cream maker. I kept mine on for about 25 minutes and then transferred the container to the freezer. It needs to chill for about 2 hours before serving. Enjoy!
And now the winner of the Pumpkin Seed Flour giveaway......
This evening I printed out all of the comments, cut and folded them, and placed them into a box. My 4 year old daughter, Grace, picked a name.
And the winner is...
T Watson!
Here is the comment: "Being from the southern states and having a multitude of food allergies, my menu choices have dramatically changed! I can't wait to use this new flour! I am dreaming of beignets and cannolis and fried green tomatoes and my great-grandmother's applesauce cake! I haven't been able to at or make those (with success) for years! Yay for the great giveaway!"
Could T Watson please email me with your name and address? Thanks everyone for participating! This was fun. I am planning on a few more giveaways in the near future so keep checking back.
27 comments:
Oh my goodness, that sounds fabulous! I'm making this tonight! And yes, please, please do share the white nectarine ice cream recipe. That sounds so good! By the way, I absolutely love your cookbook! It's probably the one I've used the most in the past year or so, and I have a lot of cookbooks! Everything I've made has been delicious - even my husband likes it and he's really picky! :-) My daughter loves the smoothies!
I have an ice cream machine that I bought at a garage sale last summer. Now I finally have an excuse to use it! I like the simplicity of this recipe - it looks so easy, can't wait to try it today. Thank you so much for giving us this recipe!
That looks great. Now I need to dig out that ice cream maker I have. I wonder where the insert is? Thanks, now I have to clean out my house. :-) I wonder how this would turn out with blueberries? Probably need to mix the berries. Time to experiment. Thanks for the ideas!
Mmmm. I've been wondering what to do with the ice cream maker now that I am not eating dairy products. We truly have no shortage of sweet things to enjoy.
I made the cherry apple pudding for D. a few days ago and shared it with some friends with the cashew topping and they couldn't stop raving about it. They insisted that I should sell it! I explained that these fabulous recipes are not my own, but that I'd gladly share the recipe. One friend explained that she had neither the time nor the culinary expertise to whip up such yummy food, but that she would certainly love to just go out and get it somewhere.
I cook for anyone who comes near our house and they all love, love the things that I make from your cookbook.
You have a lot of people here who are fans of the finished product, and a lot of them are simply not going to cook their own food, for whatever reasons (two common excuses are lack of time and lack of culinary inclination). In addition to a third cookbook, I see gluten-free restaurants in your horizon :-). Wouldn't that be fabulous (a gluten-free restaurant--not you starting them)!
Another neat idea I had was for stores like Whole Foods and our local co-ops to start listing their cookbook sources on their Deli foods and feature different cookbooks each month. It'd be a good way to sort of get a taste of the possibilities from various cookbooks and I imagine it would boost sales :-).
Your fans here will be floored by this strawberry ice cream, I can already tell by looking at the ingredients that it's going to be a treat!
Oooh-La-la! Ice cream! This looks like a fantastic recipe. I can tell from the photos! I bet your kids loved this, and mine will too. Thanks for the link to the ice cream maker. I am going to see if I can find one locally. Can't wait to give this recipe a whirl!
That ice cream looks positively perfect, and I love how it uses so few ingredients!
How totally cool to use coconut milk to make ice cream! I can't wait to try this recipe - thank you!
~Ellen
I love how Lily at such a young age is following your spirt of creating great recipes!! Those photos are so lovely. Love that cute bowl! I made Coconut Gal's ice cream last night and it was delicious. Now I need to start making your (and Lily's!) ice cream recipes. :-) I need to investigate the ice cream maker you mentioned, too. Ours is old and we only use it like every five years. LOL
Shirley
You know I like this recipe :-)
Ali, in my humble opinion, all homemade ice cream is so good that I want to hide the entire container and eat it all myself!! This sounds soooo yum!!
Congrats to T Watson too!
I love homemade ice cream. I think peach is my favorite, but your strawberry looks amazing. Although it hasn't been that warm around here this spring, I'm always up for ice cream and you've inspired me to start experimenting.
The photo series on this post is wonderful. I especially like Lily (I assume it's Lilly) holding the bowl, which I'm guessing is the bunny bowl. Aaaahhh, very cute!
Melissa
xo
That looks amazing! Creamy summer goodness!
Wow - it has been a crazy last few days here! This was the last week of school for the girls and there was much to do, especially today! Phew, summer break now!
Thanks for all of your lovely comments! :)
Jill - so glad you are enjoying our cookbook and that your picky-eating husband likes the food!
L - Yes, this recipe is very easy! Hope you enjoy!
Diane - I thought about trying it with blueberries once they come into season here; another month at least for that! :)
Jennifer L. - Ahh yes, the Cherry Apple Pudding. I haven't made that in a while. My boys sure loved it when I first gave it to them though! What a great "first dessert" huh! Yes, a gluten-free restaurant should be in the works huh, but not by me - I don't have that kind of time! I am happy to donate recipes! :) A cookbook list would be helpful that's a great idea. :)
Yogamama - I think my boys were most thrilled with this. They just can't seem to get enough of it. :)
Alisa - Thanks! :)
Ellen - Oh, I am sure you will enjoy it!
CoconutGal - LOL - yes hiding the container is a good idea with ice cream that can taste as good as this! :)
Melissa - Yes it is Lily holding the bowl with her messy hands full of markers. :) I will see if I can dig up Tom's white nectarine ice cream - it was amazing. I did a peach cashew ice cream a few years ago when we first got our ice cream maker and it was delicious!
Meghan - Yes - summer goodness! :)
Thanks! -Ali :)
oops, looks like I forgot to reply to you Shirley:
Yes, Lily does seem to take on the kitchen and its contents in wild abandon! She made a beautiful "raw" dessert last weekend while I was upstairs nursing the boys. It was an oat, honey, chocolate chip, and fruit pie - all in a gorgeous presentation. I can't say it actually tasted good though. I know it will eventually though! CoconutGal's ice cream looks fabulous too! I should have added a link to it here. :)
I am so excited -- just bought an ice cream maker on Amazon... should be here next week. This will be the first ice cream I make for my girls!!!!!!
That looks so delicious! I love the all natural ingredients. Might try subbing in stevia for the honey to make it low carb. It looks perfect for the summer season!
Sounds wonderful. Love the pictures. :)
Cheers to Healthy Ice Cream,
Kristen
Alison - I am sure you and the girls will enjoy this one!
Lauren - Have fun experimenting!
Kristen - Yes, cheers to healthy ice cream!
-Ali :)
Just made this...delicious!
I actually added some shredded coconut because I wanted to make that flavour pop. I chose not to add the lemon, and now I'm curious, what does it do for the recipe?
Thanks so much!
I have now made this recipe two times and am doing it again today for our 4TH of July party tomorrow!! It is much more cost effective than purchasing the small coconut milk ice cream containers from the store. Thanks for sharing this!
Made this yesterday. SUPER YUMMY! My husband and I are so excited to be able to eat ice cream again. YAY! Thanks Ali. I used raspberries instead of strawberries and low-fat coconut milk because that's all I had. Instead of lemon flavoring I added lemon zest. I also threw in some ground flax seeds just because I throw ground flax seeds into pretty much anything I can.
I just made your ice cream recipe to break in my new ice cream maker. It was an unmitigated success! Here's the link:
http://glutenfreegidget.blogspot.com/2009/07/slow-cookin-curry-and-coconut.html
Great recipe - thank you! I added 1 tablespoon of Chambord the second time I made it made the texture even better.
Any word on the nectarine recipe? I'm wondering if it's the same as this one just subbing nectarines for strawberries, or if the coconut will overwhelm the nectarines. Thanks!
Yummy !
We made this tonight, and had to improvise as we only had one can of coconut milk. We used Coconut beverage (like soy milk), we had this on hand as we have 3 of us dairy free. We did use the agave, and I added the seeds from a real vanilla bean as well as dark chocolate chips from Whole Foods. All of us loved it, even those in our family who can eat the "real" stuff! Thanks for a fabulous recipe that is a great base for any type of coconut ice cream we want to make.
This sounds amazing! I will make the ice cream for sure! I stumbled across this searching for a strawberry coconut milk pudding for my daughters. They can't have dairy, soy, or gluten and are starting preschool. They aren't allowed nuts there either.
Do you think I could add some kind of thickener to this and make it like a pudding, yogurty type thing they could eat? Worth a try anyways....YUM!
Sarah - you could look at this recipe for my Mango Pudding and then somehow combine the recipes. I am sure it would work.
http://www.nourishingmeals.com/2010/02/mango-coconut-pudding.html
I use kudzu to thicken and create dairy-free pudding. I have a few recipes in my cookbook for vegan pudding as well, some use cashews though.
Let me know how it turns out. -Ali :)
Hi! So I tried it as the strawberry ice cream recipe and used tapioca flour to thicken...this was not good...ended up reusing this conglomeration as a basis for muffins.
Tried again, the ice cream recipe again but used gelatin to thicken it. Was very good and tasted good and passed the daycare test :-)
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