Miss C’s ‘Ice Cream Menu Plan’
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Last week we all had a good laugh when we found that my eight year old daughter (Miss C) had altered the family menu plan to an ‘ice cream menu plan’! Obviously she was craving ice cream, and just for a laugh I decided to humour her and make a new ice cream each day. Of course, it isn’t really ice cream weather at the moment – but Miss C doesn’t seem to mind eating ice cream even in the dead of winter, so we went ahead with our crazy plan.
When I say ice cream, I don’t mean ice cream in the usual sense – I mean my own quirky style of ice creams! Dairy free, naturally sweetened and healthy. These are even egg free, so if you’re vegan, you’re going to love them. Oh yes, and they are also very quick to make – I mean, who wants to wait a day or so for the ice cream to be ready? You want it when you want it! Ice cream for me is a spur of the moment kind of thing, and I make it up as I go along. That’s what I did with these.
There are some pre-requisites for ‘spur of the moment, dairy free ice creams’ – you need to have the ingredients in the freezer ready for when you want them… frozen bananas, frozen avocados (yes, you heard right!), frozen coconut cream cubes, frozen pineapple, frozen berries, ice… If you have those (or some of those) always on hand, ice cream is only minutes away at any time. And that’s a good thing. 😉 (All these ingredients are perfect smoothie ingredients too, so keep stocked up.) Actually, just about any fruit can be frozen to add to ice creams and smoothies, so if you have a surplus, or something’s on special, chop it up and freeze in ziploc bags so it’s ready to go. Note: make sure your fruit is nice and ripe for the best flavour – but not so ripe it’s sloppy.
Quick ice creams are only limited by your imagination – so take some of my ideas and tweak them to come up with your own fabulous flavours. And please let us all know what you come up with in the comments below – Miss C will be forever grateful!
Oh, and to the lady who requested chocolate beetroot ice cream, that one is next on the ‘must try’ list!
280g frozen pineapple (chopped), 250g frozen banana (chopped)
and a couple of passionfruit for topping. Whiz up the frozen
coconut cream on speed 9 for 20 seconds, until fine. Scrape down.
Add frozen pineapple and blend on speed 9 until ground, then add
banana chunks and blend on speed 9, mixing with spatula until it all
comes together into an ice cream consistency. Scrape down bowl
and re-mix if necessary. Scoop into dishes and top with passionfruit.
Frozen banana & macadamia ice cream with a salted caramel syrup
made from Rapadura and coconut cream.
Click on the link above to get the recipe. So good. Really.
Serves 6.
~ Banana Dippin’ Dots & Ice Magic with Sprinkles ~
Day 7
~ Banana Ice Cream with Ice Magic & Roasted Hazelnuts ~
Make this ice cream just the same as the one above, but first chop some roasted hazelnuts and set them aside. Then blend up the banana on speed 9, stirring through some hazelnuts at the end. Top with ‘Ice Magic’ and sprinkle with remaining chopped roasted hazelnuts.
Serves 6.
I hope you enjoy these fun and healthy ice creams as much as we did!
& ice cream, or baked or ‘fride’ ice cream with sprinkles –
I’ll let you try those ones out yourselves. 😉
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Some nice recipes here Jo. I was looking for a vanilla ice cream without the cream.