Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream
February 26, 2010
This raw vegan dairy free vanilla ice cream made out of coconut meat is rich, creamy, and delicious.
Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream
This raw vegan dairy free vanilla ice cream made out of coconut meat is rich, creamy, and delicious.
Prep Time 40 minutes
Total Time 40 minutes
Servings 4
Calories 685 kcal
Ingredients
- 2 cups (280g) raw unsalted cashews, soaked and drained
- 2 cups (360g) young Thai coconut meat
- 1 cup (240ml) full-fat coconut milk
- 1/2 cup (120ml) pure maple syrup, plus more to taste
- 2 tablespoons (30ml) natural vanilla extract, plus more to taste
- Pinch of Celtic sea salt
Instructions
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Drain the soaked cashews, rinse thoroughly, and discard the soaking liquid.
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Throw the drained cashews into the blender with the coconut meat, coconut milk, maple syrup, vanilla, and salt, and blast on high for 30 to 60 seconds until smooth and creamy. Tweak maple syrup and vanilla to taste.
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Chill in the fridge for a couple of hours until cold, and then churn in an ice cream maker according to the manufacturer's instructions.
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Transfer to a steel loaf pan or sealed container, and freeze for about 8 hours until firm.
Comments 23
Seriously creamy and delicious. Yum.
This IS unbelievably creamy isn’t it. I LOVE this recipe 🙂
Somehow i don’t feel as naughty having this ice cream. 🙂 It was pretty incredible. I added my own vegan choc chips for fun. Yummy
GREAT idea! LOVE vanilla choc chip ice cream 🙂
Oh wow this looks superb!!! Thanks for sharing this with all of us! Creamy raw ice cream….. mmmmmm nothing like it. 🙂
LOVE it. Glad you enjoyed it.
I am glad you are all enjoying this raw vegan ice cream. SO yummy!
Wow! Love your raw recipes!!! first time on so will be trying as many as I can:)
Thank you, thank you!!!
Great! Thankyou 🙂 Welcome. I can’t wait to hear what you try.
Oh. You are So sweet. We had such a FABULOUS night trying all of the ice creams! SO glad you enjoyed it! xxx
LOVE it. So glad you tried it 🙂
WONDERFUL! Thankyou. I am so glad you enjoyed it 🙂 You would never know it is vegan.
LOL! Love it 🙂
HA! Love it. Yes. ICE CREEEEEEEEAM!
The ice cream looks and sounds decadent!!! But…. coconut is a no no for me. Any subs for it? Would avocado work? Any suggestions appreciated. Tracy
Hey Tracy,
You can make lots of delicious vanilla ice creams without using coconut. You can do a mixture of almond milk and cashews, you could use also use banana and cashews or blanched almonds straight in your Vitamix for instant ice cream. It tastes slightly like banana, but really delicious. I hope this helps. Enjoy 🙂
I made this ice cream, and, it was just too much coconut for us, we are going to do another batch with just cashews. Good taste but texture was a problem
Thanks for the feedback Roxanne.
When you open a young Thai coconut, there is water and “meat” (soft and hard white solid coconut lining the inside of the coconut shell. That is what is commonly known as “coconut meat”. You can crack coconuts with a Coco-Jack or purchase frozen coconut meat from health food stores. I like Exotic Superfoods organic coconut meat and water. I keep it in my freezer until I need it.
Is there a lot of fat in here? What is the calories per serving?
Sorry, I don’t do nutritional analysis on my recipes for the site. You can plug the recipe into the Nutrition Data website tool.
But, yes, this does contain high amounts of plant-based fat. Coconut contains saturated fats that are beneficial for health.
Any suggestions for substitutions of the cashews, unfortunately have a severe nut allergy!
Sure! This recipe would work really well with raw young thai coconut meat. Let me know how you get on.