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SUN RIPPLE FUDGE HOMEMADE DAIRY-FREE ICE CREAM RECIPE
If it’s a healthy chocolate fudge ice cream recipe you want, look no further!
Another fantastic recipe from The Spunky Coconut’s best selling cookbook, homemade Dairy-Free Ice Cream, which has 75 frozen dessert recipes made without eggs, gluten, soy or refined sugar – our recipe testers couldn’t get over how GOOD THIS WAS!
This is such a very creamy “nice cream” that you or your family would never guess it’s dairy-free and vegan!
The consistency is that of hard-packed ice cream purchased at a summertime ice cream stand and it is decadently rich and tasty.
This gorgeous, velvety, rich dessert is so good after being initially blended that you will have to try not to eat it all then!
The perfect blend of salty-sweet, this healthy homemade dairy-free ice cream recipe will surely become a fast favorite for the entire family!
Use a high speed blender, like a Blendtec or Vitamix for the best consistency, and join our community for more delicious and healthy ice cream recipes from Blender Babes and our friends! If you try this recipe, let us know in the comments and rate it! 🙂
Sun Ripple Fudge Ice Cream
Ingredients
Ice Cream:
- 1 13.5-ounce can full-fat coconut milk
- ½ cup water
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 2 teaspoons lemon juice
- ¼ teaspoon fine-grain sea salt
- ½ cup about 8 soft, pitted Medjool dates
- 1 cup sunflower seed butter without added sugar or salt (*see Notes)
Ganache:
- 2/3 cup canned full-fat coconut milk
- 3 oz. dairy-free dark chocolate
Instructions
- Put all the ingredients except the Ganache in a food processor or blender in the order listed and secure lid.
- For Blendtec: Press the SMOOTHIE button.
- For Vitamix: Blend on Variable Speed 1, slowly increase to Variable Speed 5-6, and blend about 60-90 seconds or until smooth.
- Pour mixture into a freezer-safe container and freeze for 1 hour to chill.
- Pour mixture into an ice cream machine** and churn per the manufacturer's instructions.
- While the ice cream is churning prepare the ganache.
- A) Gently melt the chocolate chips and coconut milk in a small saucepan over low heat OR
- B) Place the coconut milk into your high speed blender (must be able to heat contents) container and blend on HIGH for 2 minutes, until just the slightest steam comes off of the coconut milk. Chop up the chocolate and add to the coconut milk and blend on High for one more minute.
- Transfer the churned ice cream to a freezer-safe dish.
- Fold in the ganache to create "ripples".
- Eat immediately, or cover and freeze for 2-3 hours, till firm enough to scoop.
- All done! Enjoy!! Now take a photo, rate it, and share your accomplishments to enter our weekly photo contest! 🙂 Tag @BlenderBabes & #BlenderBabes
Notes
Recipe:
1) 3 cups of sunflower seeds (raw and unsalted).
2) Place the seeds in blender jar and secure lid.
3) Blendtec: For Twister Jar (easiest), Use SPEED 6 and turn lid counterclockwise during blending. For Fourside/Wildside Jar, use speed 5 or Medium and allow blender to run full cycle. Remove the lid and with a rubber spatula, scrape seeds towards center of the jar. If blade ever runs freely, stop machine, remove the lid and with a rubber spatula, scrape seeds towards center of the jar and use speed 5 and keep repeating until smooth.
4) Vitamix: Select VARIABLE Speed 1. Turn machine on and slowly increase speed to VARIABLE Speed 10/HIGH. Blend using the tamper to press the ingredients into the blades until you have a creamy seed butter.
5) Refrigerate. ** If you do not have an ice cream maker, freeze the water and coconut milk in an ice cream tray and add to your blender with the rest of the ingredients and blend on HIGH, careful not to over blend.
Nutrition
BLENDER BABES RECIPE TESTER NOTES
“I wanted to maximize the power blender, and make this recipe accessible for those who do not own an ice cream maker.
I froze the water and coconut milk, and blended the resulting ice cubes into the remaining ingredients.
The result was tamper licking good.” and “This is a rich dessert, possibly the richest ‘ice cream’ that I’ve ever made in my Vitamix.
It’s lovely with the ganache, but if one isn’t a chocolate fan (horrors!), it is just as good without.” and “For the ganache, I melted 1/2 cup dairy free chocolate chips with 2 Tbsp coconut oil and 2 Tbsp unsweetened almond milk” and “It was gorgeous!
This was my first time using sun butter, and I was surprised how delicious it tasted. It’s fabulous with some chopped salted nuts (cashews are nice) sprinkled on top for some crunch.” and “I liked this so much, that I have already added Kelly’s cookbook to my Amazon cart!”
HEALTH BENEFITS OF SUNFLOWER SEED BUTTER
Sunflower seed butter is a versatile spread filled with nutrients retained from the whole seed.
It’s also a good option for anyone allergic to nuts who must avoid peanut butter and other popular nut butters.
In fact, sunflower seed butter has significantly more unsaturated fat, magnesium, zinc, iron and vitamin E than peanut butter, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
This is an important distinction in fats because saturated fat and trans fats contribute to cardiovascular disease, while unsaturated fats lower cholesterol and help fight inflammation.
Excerpted with permission from Dairy Free Ice Cream by Kelly V. Brozyna. Published by Victory Belt Publishing.
I loved this recipe. Two things though. One: you don’t need 3 cups of sunflower seeds to make a cup of butter. I started with 3 then ended up taking some of the sunflower “meal” out and freezing it once I realized I had enough for the ice cream, which was probably about 1-1/2 cups. And second: I had trouble with my ganache. It seemed to be too much liquid for the amount of chocolate and when I tried to stir it in I just ended up with chocolate ice cream instead of sort of chewy ganache swirls. Of course this is not a problem. Just wasn’t what I thought the outcome would be. Next time I think I’ll use less liquid. Even when I added more chocolate, 2/3 of a cup of coconut milk was still too much. Nevertheless, totally delicious and very filling from the fat in the coconut milk and sunflower seeds. Loved that it felt like I was eating dairy ice cream without all the sugar and God only knows what else! Thanks Blender Babes!!
Thanks for sharing Adrienne! Our recipe testers LOVED this blendtec and vitamix ice cream recipe too! We didn’t hear this sort of feedback though, so thanks again for sharing your experience for the other people who try this. Were you using a high powered blender?
I just received a Designer 625 Blendtec as a gift recently. I’m very happy with the blender. I am however disappointed that it didn’t come with a recipe book, manual or the 8yr. warranty paperwork. I can’t wait to get the twister jar. I make my own almond butter using sprouted almonds. I’m telling you there’s know better almond butter than the one you make yourself with the sprouted nuts. It’s sooo good. I’m currently using my Waring Blender with a Vita Mix Container. It’s a pain but, I just exercise some patience. Sprouted almonds are softer so that makes them alot easier to make butter, but you still have to make quit a bit at one time. I blend, rest, blend, rest, blend. I never alow my butter to become warm, allowing it to be truly raw. i’m also looking forward to making the diary free ice cream. I’m currently having to be on a low-fodmap. I have to be careful of what I eat. I’ve had to give up on so many foods that I love. I can’t wait to try the diary-free ice cream. Thank you so much for an awesome product.
It looks so nice on my counter as well.
Debra we feel your pain! Several team members have dietary issues including our owner who needs to follow fodmap as well due to IBS. Your Designer 625 should have come with the warranty paperwork, their recipe book has changed due to the different program and functions for blendtec blenders now, but luckily we have over 350 recipes (more coming every week!) with specific instructions for your blendtec blender! We will have to try the sprouted almonds next time we make almond butter! You will LOVE the twister jar, definitely makes nut butters much easier than the regular jar. 🙂 HAPPY BLENDING!