Make your own YUM Chocolate Ice Cream!

So,once in a while I surprise you, and come out with some thing a ” little more healthy “!

It’s a little more healthy, but still tastes really naughty, and that my friends is the key to good food! 🙂

It is rich and creamy, and nice and chocolately but it is sweetened entirely with maple syrup.
The maple flavour sits in the background, so it is a nice, rich chocolate ice cream experience!

I am fortunate enough to have an Ice Cream machine!
All I have to do is mix the ingredients up and it does the rest.
If you don’t have an Ice Cream machine, you can still give it a go, but it won’t be quite the same texture.

Without an icecream machine, you will need to freeze, blend it up to a smoothie consistency and refreeze a few times.

With no preservatives or gums, the icecream will set hard, and will need to be removed from the freezer for 20-30 mins (in British weather!) to be spoonable.
But, you know what?
It even you forget about it and leave it out too long, as I did on one occassion- it STILL tastes good melted!

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I want to show people how easy it is, how much fun you can have and what good food you can eat when you PLANTIFY your food!

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Enjoy
x
Katrina

I’ve got some great Recipes coming out for you shortly too, that you can have a try at, including this awesome artisan style Mediterranean Veg Stuffed Ciabatta bread! :0
I’ll include photo steps on the recipe card too, so that you have a good chance of replicating it yourself!

Yum Chocolate Ice Cream

Ingredients:

150 grams Cashews (1 cup)
500ml cups boiling water (2 cups)

60 gm Cocoa (1/2 cup)
250 ml Cold Water (1 cup)
187 ml Maple Syrup (3/4 cup)
125ml Aqua faba (liquid from a can of UNSALTED chickpeas or Butter Beans) (1/2 cup)
1 tsp vanilla Extract

Method:

-Boil Cashews in 2 cups of boiling water for 10 minutes.
This helps them soften and swell so they blend easily.
This should leave ONE CUP of water approximately, once the cashews are drained.

-Add the boiled Cashews plus the remaining one cup of boiling water from the pan into the blender and blend until smooth.
Once it is smooth, then add 1 cup of cold water, 3/4 cup of Maple syrup, Cocoa, and the Vanilla extract and blend thoroughly.
It should be completely smooth with no lumps.

-Whip your 1/2 cup of Aqua Faba until it forms stiff peaks then fold into the chocolate mix.
It will deflate, that doesn’t matter..

-Add the mixture to the Ice cream machine, and churn and freeze!

-If you don’t have an Ice Cream machine , you will need to freeze, blend it up to a smoothie consistency and refreeze a few times to break up the ice crystals.