Dairy Free Ice Cream
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With the recent heat on the west coast, I've been craving ice cream. We all know regular ice cream isn't good for us, but sometimes it's impossible to resist the cold creamy concoction beckoning from the freezer aisle of the local supermarket. We know we should resist because it's loaded with sugar and unhealthy fats. So if we're trying to lose weight or on a healthy diet, do we have to give up ice cream altogether?
There are several options for those of us who can't eat dairy and those of us who simply don't want to. There are a few good soy ice creams on the market. You can find them in any grocery store. But what about people who don't want to eat soy? People on a (raw food diet often forgo soy, for example, and some people have a soy allergy. I don't eat dairy products and I limit my soy intake so I've had to become creative.
That's where a few kitchen tools come into play. To make your own dairy-free, soy-free ice cream you'll probably want to have a food processor and an ice cream machine. Ice cream machines can be purchased for as little as $20 these days and the investment is well worth it if you have special dietary needs.
I've recently been experimenting with healthy dairy-free ice cream recipes and will be posting my recipes in this blog. Full of fresh, organic ingredients like strawberries and bananas, these ice cream recipes will make you forget all about your "real" ice cream cravings.
If you have any of your own dairy-free ice cream recipes, email them to eat@healthdiaries.com and we'll publish them here.
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Ron,
Try wholefoods or wild oats. They have Tofutti and Soy Dream. The rice dream is pretty good.
Haagen Daaz chocolate sorbet is dairy free and pretty darn good too. THo loaded with corn syrup.
I have an alergy to milk soy and bannas i just got an icecream machine but i can't seem to find a banna free recipe did i not look hard enouf or do you not have one on this site???
hi,
a while ago a friend in america told me about these really healthy low fat vegan oat ice creams he used to eat, i bought an icecream maker in the hopes of making some myself but can find no recipes for vegan oat ice cream anywhere - can you help please?!
You must try Soy Delicious, it is incredible!! As a former ice cream fanatic gone dairy free for health reasons, I can say this is as close as it gets to the real thing, actually better I think. I saw that they sell it at the Produce Place, Krogers (E Elysian Flds), and all Wild Oats in Nashville.
My infant son has been diagnosed with numerous allergies including but not limited to peanuts, dairy and soy. Since my local stores do not offer rice varieties of ice cream and sorbet tends to be too full of sugar, we purchased an ice cream maker and have been playing with Grandma's old homemade recipies to fit his needs. So far our Strawberry Ice Cream has been the biggest hit. We use soft tofu (drained) instead of whipping cream and eggs and rice milk when the recipie calls for any kinds of milk. Just by making those simple substitutions, we've been able to give our little guy that special treat we all crave during the summer. We have found only one difference with this. That is that the ice cream should be ate within 3 days and NO ONE has ever visited our home and ate the ice cream and knew that they were eating a non-dairy, non-egg ice cream.
Hi,
I am buying a Cuisinart ice cream machine and I'm looking for recipes that are sugar-free (using honey or xylitol), dairy-free, and soy-free.
Does anyone have recipes using rice milk or almond milk?
Thanks.
Hi,
I am buying a Cuisinart ice cream machine and I'm looking for recipes that are sugar-free (using honey or xylitol), dairy-free, and soy-free.
Does anyone have recipes using rice milk or almond milk?
Thanks.
A note on making your own soy ice cream, the University of Illinois published a recipe in their soy bean experiments section, and I wrote up a piece on how to make soy ice cream if you are interested, here: http://www.gadgeteer.net/index.php?p=5
hi,im looking for a very simple ice cream recipe but i need it to be made with soy milk and not so many ingredients.I looked all over the internet but i keep finding recipes that have to much sugra in or they have dairy and i just cant fin the perfect recipe,can any one help???
DAIRY AND EGG-FREE VANILLA ICE CREAM
My SIL has come to live with us and won't eat dairy products (if she can resist them, that is). I made the following ice cream for her and was surprised at how smooth it was considering its (to me) extremely unpalatable ingredients. Though it was a little icy, I was expecting it to be totally inedible. It's a pity it's also egg-free because boy does my SIL need feeding up! No wonder she has no energy. Anyway, here's the recipe:
Makes approx 1 litre (810g)
2 teaspoons gelatine
1/4 cup (60ml) apple juice
1/4 cup (90g) honey
21/2 cups (625ml) Vanilla Soy milk or Rice milk
2 teaspoons vanilla essence
Gently heat gelatine and apple juice together until gelatine is dissolved. Stir in honey and vanilla essence. Cool and place in fridge until well chilled. Add chilled milk (I used rice; my SIL won’t drink soy). Beat mixture on high in a cake mixer (such as a Kenwood Chief) until well aerated. Set up your ice cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions and pour the mixture in. When it’s ready for the freezer (my machine lets me know this by starting to churn in the opposite direction) pour into small containers and freeze until firm. I prefer containers that hold one serving, or at most two. That way ice doesn’t form.
I was wondering if adding guar or xantham gum would make this recipe even smoother. Trouble is, I wouldn't know how much to add!
I'm looking for almond milk recipes too. I know almond milk makes a pretty decent latte. :D
A lady here also told me recently that she prefers oat milk because of it's creamy texture. Haven't tried it yet. Rice milk I don't like at all.
I can not eat any dairy. its hot and i am craving some ice cream.
i have looked at grocery stores around me in Los Angeles CA. but cant find any. could you send me a list of grocery stores that sells dairy free ice cream
Thank you
Soy is so not good for you and the last thing you should feed your child.
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/
Please educate yourselves about soy before you eat or drink anymore of it.
For those of you looking for Dairy Free ice cream, you really should look for two particular brands:
1) PURELY DECADENT
2) SO DELICIOUS (formerly Soy Delicious)
Both are made from fresh organic soy milk and come in lots of great flavors. Check out the website at www.purelydecadent.com or www.sodeliciousdairyfree.com . They have a Store Locator tool.
Hi, I am casein and nut allergic (amongst many other things) and can't easily get hold of non-dairy ice cream in the shops near me (in the UK), so I'm experimenting with rice milk. So far I tried the following:
1 litre of original rice milk, 3 teaspoons vanilla extract, 3 dessertspoons of clear honey and 5 egg yolks. Whisked these together over a low heat as per normal dairy icecream recipes, then cooled and froze. The flavour is fabulous, although I might use a little less honey next time as it is quite sweet. The texture is more like water ice or sorbet though. My next experiment will be to add gelatin or arrowroot to the custard stage and see if I can get the texture a bit thicker and creamier.
Any ideas for how to improve on this?
I am fructose & lactose intollerant & I am looking for
sugar free & lactose free
ice cream recipes to make with
my ice cream maker. I would
love to find a cappuccino,
maple walnut & plain vanilla
base that I can work with. I
use diabetic sugar & Xylitol
Sugar. Please send me recipes
& ideas. I would really like
to enjoy ice cream sometimes
like my family who indulges in
it.
I wrote to the Lactaid Co.
& inquired about Sugar free
ice cream & they wrote bk &
said they would work on it.
I'm waiting! Pls. help!
thanks,
Doreen
ALMOND MILK AND COCONUT MILK ICECREAM (VANILLA ICECREAM)
2C coconut milk
1C almond milk (plain or vanilla)
1-2 cups sugar (I use 2)
1 tsp vanilla extract
The more almond milk you use the less creamy. It has a slight coconut taste, you can add whatever fruit you like, it is creamy and my kids/hubby love it.
Some add lecithin granules (richer taste)
For dairy free ice cream the best available, in my opinion is Swedish Glace. I get it in my local Tesco. It tastes just like the real thing.
Please look up Aspartame in the www.wikipedia.org and you will be in for a Shocker, if you don't know this already!!
It is Artificial and is a subject of public controversy due to possible health risks.
This is what it says on Wikipedia:
This sweetener is marketed under a number of trademark names, including Equal, NutraSweet, and Canderel, and is an ingredient of approximately 6,000 consumer foods and beverages sold worldwide. It is commonly used in diet soft drinks.
It has been the subject of controversy regarding its Safety and the circumstances of its approval by the American FDA and European FSA. Some studies have also recommended further investigation into possible connections between aspartame and negative effects such as headaches, brain tumors, brain lesions, and lymphoma.
Date sugar is good for you and other beet and fruit sugars are to, as a substitute.
You might have read Anns entry as above: Posted by Ann at July 29, 2007 11:44 PM -------
SORRY FOR THE CAPITAL LETTERS BUT AFTER ANN POSTED HER COMMENT MIKE COMMENTED(15. Mike said on August 17, 2007) AND I went to her Web Site and you Wouldn't Believe what I read!!! PLEASE Read Below:
Soy has become synonymous with healthy eating. Who hasn't heard of the marvels of soy? Even Dr. Weil has jumped onto the soy band wagon, pushing the "health benefits" of soy during a recent appearence on Larry King Live. The USDA recently approved the use of soy in our children's school lunches. But could something that sounds so healthy actually be dangerous? Before you reach for that next bite of tofu and wash it down with some great tasting soy milk, we believe you should read about the dark side of soy.....
PLEASE AT LEAST GO TO HER Web Site and read a bit about the toxic ingredients in soy beans! I guess Mike didn't read Ann's article b 4 he posted his because he mentioned Soy Delicious/So Delicious. I personally tasted these products a couple of years ago and almost couldn't eat the whole thing!! IT WAS SO SWEET! What does the manufacturers want to do to Us?? Do they want to turn us into Diabetics? Excess sugar is Good for the bad bacteria in our mouth, stomach and colon!! I want(ed) to taste a Nice Tasty SOY treat, NOT eat sickly SWEET sugar! I love sugar but Not That Much.......
I should have given the URL that I was talking about to you folks again about the dangers of soy instead of you going to look for Ann's post:
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/ .............
To Kim:
I'm sorry to hear your son has allergies. That goes to prove that some "food" Shouldn't be manufactured as Real food for us and then we have to find out the hard way that we can't eat it because it is weakening Our Health!!
The most important thing is that your Son NOT eat tofu because as you said he is allergic to peanuts, dairy and soy. Didn't you realize that tofu IS soya??
Oat milk does do very well in recipies. It comes out much creamier than with any other milk sub. My dairy crazy family cannot even tell when a soup, or mashed potatoes is made with oat milk instead of milk. It has a bit of a funky taste in cereal but if you have an oat based cereal anyhow, it is not that noticable.
Also, Soy delicious and Soy dream both make some very good soy icecreams. They also make Rice dream for those of you that are soy intolerant. Soy delicious also has a fruit sweetened only variety. These can all be found in your local health food stores as well as Kroger.
I am looking for an Almond Milk ice cream recipe. I would like it to be a vanila plus fruit to serve at a party. Thanks







Hi,
I have been tring to find Soy Ice Cream in the Stores around me, to no avail! I have looked in all the major grocery stores around Nashville, Tn. with no luck. I can't eat Dairy foods! Do you know or have access to any stores in my area that have Soy Ice Cream?
If so, could you please email me a list of stores Please!!!!!!
Thank-you in advance!!!!
Ron Baker