The weather is getting warmer and nothing beats a refreshing ice cream on a hot summer afternoon! The kids have a weakness for a chocolate sundae, so most of us are looking for a way to satisfy our sweet tooth without sacrificing our health. Vegan chocolate covered ice cream is a quick and easy way to cool off everyone in the family!
This nutritious ice cream is free of refined sugar, gluten and dairy. With a few basic ingredients you can make a delicious frozen dessert! Would you also like to make your own healthy chocolate ice cream on a stick? Then read on and discover a quick and easy summer recipe.
Make your own healthy chocolate ice cream on a stick
These handcrafted treats are rich, chocolaty and flavorful: from now on you'll never like store-bought products again! Store-bought ice cream is usually not suitable for people on a gluten-free diet. It contains milk and a number of other harmful ingredients - so it is not for vegans or other people who cannot tolerate dairy products. If you want a more nutritious,healthy treatare looking for, try these homemade chocolate popsicles that are free of gluten, dairy and refined sugar.
Different varieties
There's a wide range of flavors if you want to add a little more flair with other ingredients:
- Fill each ice cream mold with whole, fresh raspberries for chocolate raspberry ice cream.
- If you want to make strawberry flavored chocolate popsicles, cut up some strawberries and add them to the mix. You can sprinkle freeze-dried strawberries on top for decoration.
- To make peanut butter popsicles, mix chocolate with a few spoonfuls of softened peanut butter. You can garnish it with chopped almonds.
- To make chocolate Oreo popsicles, fill the ice cream molds with the chocolate mixture and place a whole Oreo cookie inside. For decoration, sprinkle crumbled Oreo cookies on top. If you want to find a healthier alternative, buy gluten-free cookies without sugar!
- For a caramel-flavored ice cream, you should add a few spoonfuls of caramel sauce (you can find different ones onlineVariations that are veganand sugar-free) and stir. You can garnish the chocolate ice cream with sea salt.
Important tip: Peanut butter is healthy, but you shouldn't exceed the recommended amount of three teaspoons per day! Here you will findmore on the topic!
Ingredients
For the ice cream:
- 480 ml coconut milk
- 128 g Cashewbutter
- 40 g Cocoa powder
- 8 large Medjool dates, pitted
- optionally 50 g coconut blossom sugar
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
For the coating:
- 60 ml maple syrup
- 60 ml Coconut beer
- 20 g Cocoa powder
- Cocoa nibs for sprinkling
preparation
- Mix cashew butter, coconut milk, cocoa powder, dates, coconut blossom sugar and vanilla extract in a high-speed blender. Process until the mixture is creamy and smooth.
- Before freezing, pour the mixture into the ice cream molds, insert the sticks and let them set.
- In the meantime, prepare the chocolate coating: Mix the cocoa powder, maple syrup and coconut oil in a heatproof bowl over a barely simmering pot of water until well mixed and melted.
- Set the bowl aside and let it cool to room temperature.
- Line a baking tray with parchment paper and set aside when the popsicles are ready. Once removed from the molds, dip each popsicle stick into the chocolate coating before placing on the paper.
- Then sprinkle with cocoa nibs or whatever you like and put back in the freezer until the ice cream is hard.
A simple trick for a consistent result:Pour the ganache into a tall, narrow coffee cup. This makes it easier and cleaner to dip the popsicle stick so that it is evenly coated with chocolate all over.
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