Homemade Chocolate Ice-Cream Recipe Without Machine (Vegan)
Chocolate ice-cream made with no dairy, no eggs and refined sugar free!
Equipment
- Blender with about a 32 oz+ cup size. Smaller is fine for 1 serving.
Ingredients
- 3 large pre frozen, very ripe sliced bananas The importance of pre-slicing your bananas is to prevent them from buckling your blender blades, which can happen with lower quality blenders.
- ¼ cup rolled oats If you do not want an oat base to your ice-cream then you can use another plant milk, or watermelon as your fluid. If using watermelon you will need to omit the water and make sure your watermelon juice is blended first and comes up your blender by a couple of inches.
- ½ cup water
- 2 tbsp carob or cacao powder Use carob powder for a caffeine free version of cacao.
- 2-3 chopped Medjool dates Optional
- Vanilla extract or essence to taste
Instructions
- Blitz your oats in your blender with the water first to make yourself a creamy oat milk. Be sure to blend them down so they are as smooth as possible. You do not want graininess to the milk or it will make your ice-cream grainy and it needs to be smooth to be as close to ice-cream as possible. This process could take up to 90 seconds. You may wish to stop and start again with the whizzing of your blender so that it does does not over heat.
- Now add the rest of your ingredients and whizz again on high speed. The secret here is to only have enough fluids to just about get a whizz going on your blender. You should have roughly the right amount of oat milk to achieve this with the amounts in this recipe instruction, but it may vary from blender to blender. If you do not have enough fluids to get a full spin going on your ice-cream, then you should add a little water at a time to achieve this.
- You can stop half way through the blending process to bang down any ingredients stuck in the top of your blender, then continue until you have a very smooth texture ice-cream. You need to be able to get a blend going continually for 30 seconds to get your texture right. Your machine may whirr a lot without the ingredients actually spinning. Be wary of this and do not wear your blender out. If it starts smoking or smelling of burning stop immediately and allow it to cool. You can then begin again afterwards, but just be wary as we do not want you to break or burn out your blender when there is no need.
- Serve your ice-cream immediately. If you're using toppings such as nuts, seeds, dark chocolate or granola, be sure to have them prepared and ready to add. It is possible to freeze it, but not optimal as it will completely change the texture and make it super hard and possibly icy.