Creamy Coconut Milk (or Hemp Milk) Ice Cream

Drink - non-alcoholic

Difficulty: Easy Source:

Ingredients

13 ounces of full-fat coconut milk refrigerated

1-2 frozen bananas (I like to peel them and cut them into pieces—at least in half—before freezing them)

1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract

Extra sweetener (stevia xylitol, or coconut nectar), if desired

Flavorings to taste like cacao powder or nibs, nuts, berries, more coconut, extracts, etc.

pinch of high-quality sea salt (to bring out the sweet flavor though it’s not necessary)

Description

Strawberries (fresh or frozen) and fresh basil
Almond butter and cacao
Coconut and almonds
Cacao nibs and mint leaves (add some spirulina for color!)
A mix of your favorite berries
Coconut and a splash of lime juice
You could also just keep it simple and choose one fruit, like peaches or cherries, and add another splash of vanilla. Don’t mix all these combos together at the same time of course- pick on option and stick with it. Keep it simple, always!

If you’re not a big fan of coconut, you can make something similar by mixing ½ cup of hempseeds with two cups of water in the blender (add the water slowly and stop when the mixture becomes creamy), then using that in place of the coconut milk in the recipe above.

Directions

Mix the coconut milk, bananas, sweetener, vanilla, and fruit or extracts in the blender. Do a taste test to see if you need to add anything before you put it in the freezer or ice cream maker.

Chill the mixture in the refrigerator and then run it through your ice cream maker, if you have one.

At the end, you can mix in the dry ingredients (cacao nibs, nuts, etc). Put the ice cream in an airtight container and store it in the freezer.

Notes

If you don’t have an ice cream maker, you don’t even have to go out and buy one! The texture won’t be exactly the same (a little slushier, less creamy), but you can pour your mixture into a freezer-safe container and then whisk it every 30 to 60 minutes so it doesn’t turn into one big frozen block, until it’s ready (about three hours). This is what I do, because I do not own an ice cream maker.