This is a delicious twist on vanilla with some of your favorite Thanksgiving spices, like cinnamon, all spice and cardamom. Easy to digest and dairy free, vanilla spice ice cream is sure to delight!
Time to prepare
15-minutes to prepare, 2 -6 hours to chill and about 22 – 35 minutes in the ice cream maker. If you don’t have an ice cream maker, you can look up instructions online for making ice cream without an ice cream maker. This will take about 2 – 3 more hours in the freezer.
Serves: 6
Ingredients
- 1 12 oz. can of organic coconut milk (get a brand that is BPA free or make your own coconut milk by following instructions below).
- 1.5 cups extra virgin olive oil
- 10 dates
- 2 egg yolks (if you are vegan, use one flax egg or chia egg – 1 tablespoon ground flax or chia in 3 TBL water, allow to sit for 5 minutes, then add to ingredients)
- 2 TBL vanilla extract
- 1 TBL cinnamon
- 2 tsp cardamom
- 1 tsp allspice
- 1 tsp sea salt
Instructions
- To make your own coconut milk, get a bag of shredded, organic unsweetened coconut shreds with no sulfites added. Boil 3 cups of water and allow to cool for 1 minute, then pour over 2 cups of shredded coconut. Let this sit until the water is lukewarm. Put it into a blender and blend up for a few minutes. Strain with a very fine mesh strainer or through a nut milk bag. You now have coconut milk! Save the shreds to use as coconut flour.
- Put your coconut milk into a food processor with the S-blade and add the egg yolks (or flax/chia egg). Blend up for a couple of minutes, then slowly drizzle the olive oil into the food processor. Do this very slowly, take 2 full minutes to drizzle the oil in, practicing patience!
- Once the olive oil is blended in, add the vanilla, sea salt, dates and spices and continue to blend.
- Once the dates and spices are fully blended, put your mixture into a glass container and chill in the refrigerator for at least 6 hours.
- After 6-hours of chilling, place the mixture into your ice cream maker, according to your ice cream maker’s instructions and make the ice cream. Or follow the instructions for making ice cream without an ice cream maker, below.
- If you don’t have an ice cream maker, follow these instructions:
- Take a large stainless steel bowl and fill it halfway with ice. Add in some thick Kosher salt or any coarse salt and mix it up. The salt won’t be touching the ice cream, it’s there to transfer cold from the ice into your dish of ice cream mixture.
- Put a smaller stainless steel or ceramic bowl into the big bowl of ice and salt. Make sure it’s set well into the ice, so that ice is going up the sides of the smaller bowl, but not into the bowl itself. Then fill the smaller bowl halfway up with ice cream mixture.
- Now take a hand held mixer or immersion blender with whisk attachment and mix up the ice cream mixture for 10 minutes.
- Take both bowls and put them in the freezer for 1 – 2 hours.
- After 1 – 2 hours, take the bowls out and use your hand mixer again for another 10 minutes.
- Cover the mixture with some natural parchment paper sitting direction on the mixture, then put a top on the smaller bowl and allow the ice cream to set in your freezer.
Serving Suggestions
Serve on its own or with baked apples sprinkled with cinnamon.
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As a coach, writer and recovered former executive, I understand the challenges of creating a balanced, healthy lifestyle when over-scheduled. In my journey to radiant health, I created a whole health system of eating, exercise, renewal and recharging -- a roadmap toward health & vitality. I empower clients to create their own whole health systems, in their own unique ways. I have seen amazing results in working with my clients!
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