Sugar Free Ice Cream

Our sugar free ice cream recipes will get you through your detox and beyond without having to give up the sweet comfort of ice cream. These are also vegan recipes and, of course, all natural!

Ice cream is so good! It can nourish you on so many levels…it’s sweet and creamy and cold and oh so yummy! You may have happy memories associated with it or find comfort in it when you’re feeling sad or anxious. It is all of these things for most people.

Unfortunately it’s also dairy cream, refined sugar and often contains harmful toxins.

The main components of ice cream are “sweet” and “fat.” In these sugar free ice cream recipes the sweetness of refined sugar is replaced by bananas or alternative natural sweeteners. The creamy fat of heavy dairy cream is replaced with avocados, coconut oil, sesame seeds and/or coconut milk.

If you have access to an ice cream maker, use it to make the cacaovocado or the coconut ice cream. These recipes will come out smooth and more creamy when you use an ice cream maker. If you don’t have one, you can “Roll Your Way to Ice Cream” - details below. It’s a fun game to play with a small group of friends or children and everyone wins when the ice cream is ready!

Use these basic sugar free ice cream recipes as a base for your own flavor experiments. Add cacao nibs, dried or frozen fruit, nuts, chunks of our nut cookies, nut butters, and/or different flavored extracts to make the flavors you like best. Have fun experimenting and sticking to healthy, all natural ingredients.

Cacaovocado Ice Cream

(use organic whenever possible)

4 bananas, peeled

1 cups extra virgin coconut oil

2 avocados

1/2 - 1 cup agave nectar or Grade B maple syrup

3-4 tablespoon cacao powder

2 tablespoon cacao nibs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1. Put the banana and coconut oil in a blender or food processor and blend well.
2. Add the rest of the ingredients in and blend until smooth.
3. Pour into a mold and freeze for about 4 hrs. Or put it in a ice cream maker and follow the instructions. Or use the “Roll Your Way to Ice Cream” method below.

Creamy Tahini Ice Cream

¼ cup sesame seeds

1 tablespoon purified water

2 frozen bananas (peel them before you freeze them)

½ teaspoon vanilla extract

1. Grind sesame seeds in the coffee grinder.
2. Mix with water to make a thick paste.
3. Thinly slice frozen bananas.
4. Place sliced bananas, vanilla extract and sesame paste in a medium mixing bowl.
5. Mash mixture together against the side of the bowl with a fork until smooth and creamy. Try to work out the lumps and truly combine the sesame paste and bananas.
6. Enjoy right away or put in the freezer for later.

Coconut Ice Cream

3 cups coconut milk

¾ cup agave nectar, Grade B Maple Syrup or juice concentrate.

2 teaspoons of vanilla extract (or any other natural extract)

Serves 2-4

Roll Your Way to Ice Cream

Here’s a real do it yourself way to make sugar free ice cream and a fun game! If you don’t have an ice cream maker you can use a can! A couple of cans, actually.

What you need:

1 pound can (with a good lid)

3 pound can (with a good lid)

crushed ice

rock salt

1. Fill the 1 pound can with ice cream ingredients and seal with lid (you may need to use tape if the lid doesn’t seal well on its own).
2. Place the 1 pound can inside of the 3 pound can.
3. Layer crushed ice and rock salt around the small 1 pound can.
4. Seal the large can with its lid (again using tape if necessary for a good seal.
5. Get several people to help or at least two helpers. Sit in a circle on the floor and roll the can back and forth for 15 minutes or more. Then check to see if your ice cream is ready.