Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream
If you're craving a creamy chocolate ice cream to satisfy your sweet tooth, enjoy this one that won't have you missing dairy or sugar!
Ingredients
- 3¼ cup (780 ml) cashew milk
- 2 (230 g) sweet potato, baked, peeled
- 1 (120 g) medium bananas, peeled
- ⅓ cup (33 g) raw cashews
- 6 cups (780 g) ice cubes
- 6 (80 g) medjool dates, pitted
- ½ cup (40 g) 100% unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract, optional
Directions
- Place all ingredients into the Vitamix container in the order listed and secure the lid.
- Start the blender on its lowest speed, then quickly increase to its highest speed. Blend for 1
- minute 30 seconds or until mixture is very smooth.
- Pour 3 cups (720ml) of the mixture into ice cube trays and freeze for at least 6 hours until solid. Reserve the remaining liquid in an airtight container and refrigerate.
- Once ice cubes are completely frozen, remove from trays and let them sit on the counter for 10 minutes. Measure 1.5 cups (360ml) of the reserved liquid into the Vitamix container, then add all the ice cubes. Secure the lid.
- Start the blender on its lowest speed, then quickly increase to its highest speed, using the tamper to press ingredients toward the blades. Blend for 30-40 seconds or until mixture is processed.
- In about 30-45 seconds, the sound of the motor will change and four mounds should form. Stop the machine. Do not over mix or melting will occur. Serve immediately.
Chef's Notes
Standard ice cube trays hold about 1 oz. (2 tbsp.) of liquid per cube, so you will likely need to fill 1 1/2 trays and freeze them. If you have any remaining liquid left over after measuring and freezing, use it as a sauce to pour over scooped ice cream! Silicon ice cube molds work best. To bake the sweet potatoes, wash thoroughly and place directly on oven rack, baking at 350°F (175°C) for 30 minutes or until tender. Do not boil or steam them as the excess moisture will change the quality of the blend. Be careful not to use a banana that is too ripe, or its flavor will overpower the ice cream.
Nutrition Information
| Serving Size | 1 serving (127 g) |
| Amount Per Servings | |
| Calories | 100 |
| Total Fat | 3 g |
| Saturated Fat | .5 g |
| Sodium | 40 mg |
| Total Carbohydrate | 19 g |
| Dietary Fiber | 3 g |
| Sugars | 10 g |
| Protein | 3 g |
Chocolate Ice Cream is rated
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Rated 4 out of
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Ranelle from
Good but....
I have received the Vitamix as a gift from my father because I wanted to make a smoothie with a powerful blender. So when I got the recipe book that has the cookbook I saw a lot this recipe and I thought I would try this one because I had all the ingredients except the dry milk. Anyways, I tried this recipe and it was more of a copy cat of Wendy's Frosty, same texture. I think children would love this. When you follow the recipe/instructions and you do it right. It comes out as a Frosty texture and then it melts very fast. It doesn't come out like the picture shown. I always had to tweak recipes with the Vitamix.
Date published: 2016-07-20
Rated 3 out of
5
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NorCaliChick from
Small adjustment makes a big difference
This was not bad... I made a couple changes to get that creamy ice-cream texture with a better flavor.
24 Chocolate pudding cubes (in place of ice cubes)*
1/2 cup of vanilla yogurt (in place of the nonfat dry milk)
1/2 cup of ground up milk chocolate chips (in place of unsweetened coco powder)
*note: I used almond/cashew milk blend to make the pudding, but regular milk where the original recipe calls for milk
my family loves this recipe with these few changes, hopefully this works for you and your families as well.
Date published: 2016-10-05
Rated 4 out of
5
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Brad from
Super easy and delicious
I have the 750 series, and we love making sorbets from frozen fruit so I was excited to try "ice cream"
I followed the recipe exactly as above except I substituted almond milk (made in the vitamin) for milk and 1/4 cup of chia seeds for the dry milk. It requires tamping and you must stop blending on time .
The result was ice cream that resembles a "frosty" and was delicious!
I will try again with a frozen banana and 3 cups of ice and chilled full fat coconut milk to improve the texture and make it more creamy.
Date published: 2015-11-08
Rated 5 out of
5
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Anonymous from
Love The Revision!
I accidentally revised Ambassador's revision, substituting 4 cups of vanilla pudding cubes instead of ice cubes and WHOA! You'll never buy store bought ice cream again. I'm assuming that if we omit the cocoa powder we end up with good ol' vanilla ice cream. I shall attempt this next batch. SO AGAIN...follow the original recipe, only use 4 cups of vanilla pudding cubes rather than ice cubes, and refrigerate for at least a couple hours before serving. DIVINE!
Date published: 2017-07-19
Rated 5 out of
5
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nbsobay from
Don't touch a thing!
Perfect recipe. Don't mess with it. Love the flavor, love the texture. Creamy, chocolately, malty-flavored...amazing. Just...do what it says and wait for the mixture to "catch" which takes about 20-30 seconds using the pusher and wait for it to begin to blend and flow for about 5-10 seconds. Done. It's awesome...
Date published: 2017-02-08
Rated 3 out of
5
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Ambassador777 from
Easy Recipe to modufy
I switched up some ingredients like 12 frozen vanilla pudding cubes for half if the ice cube requirement and also put peppermint chips in - much more like ice cream consistency. I had to freeze it before serving it.
Date published: 2015-10-04
Rated 1 out of
5
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Vannieny from
Milkshake not ice cream
I had a feeling this wouldn't work because all the high reviews are not for this recipe. The recipes the reviewers created with all their tweaks may be 5 stars but the actual recipe is not. Unlike most of these reviews, I actually followed the recipe, dry milk and all. It never formed 4 mounds, it just blended a chocolate shake that yes, tasted like a wendy's frosty. I will try a basic ice cream recipe I found online next but this recipe as followed, fail. Whenever you see a recipe where all the tweaks are literally a brand new recipe, never a good sign.
Date published: 2019-12-16
Rated 4 out of
5
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james1234 from
Good but could be great!
I followed the directions except that I did not have any powdered milk. The outcome was a pretty good snack for my 7 year old although she told me it was good but more watering than regular ice cream. After reading some of the reviews I think I am going to try it with frozen milk in the future instead of ice to see if that helps.
Date published: 2018-06-16
