Here is the first of what I am sure is to be many dairy free ice cream recipes. If you read my Thoughtful Thursday post a couple of days ago (And if you didn’t, go back and read it right now. I can wait. Hmm, hmm. Done? Good.), you will know that I have found a new passion…dairy free ice creams. Ooohh! They are so good!
One of my and C’s favorite ice cream treats is rocky road at a certain national ice cream chain, so that is one flavor that I wanted to try to duplicate. This recipe is in the “lick it!” vegan ice cream cookbook. In my humble opinion, this is just as good if not better since the nuts and marshmallows taste fresher in this homemade version. Try this now!!! (If you want this recipe to be truly vegan, you will need vegan chocolate and marshmallows.)
1 1/4 cups soymilk or other non-dairy milk
1/3 cup granulated sugar
2 tbsp. unsweetened cocoa powder
6 oz. milk chocolate chips
1 14 oz. can full-fat coconut milk
2 tsp. vanilla
1/4 cup chopped almonds
1/2 cup mini marshmallows
Combine the soymilk, sugar and cocoa powder in a medium saucepan and whisk until smooth. Warm on medium heat until the soymilk begins to simmer. Remove from heat.
Put the chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl. Pour the hot soymilk mixture over the chocolate and stir until smooth. Whisk in the coconut milk and vanilla extract. Cover and chill in the refrigerator for at least 3 hours.
Then freeze in an ice-cream maker according to the manufacturer’s instructions. (The instructions for mine say: Turn on the machine. Pour the ice cream base into the machine and process for 20 minutes. Add the almonds and marshmallows for the last 5 minutes.)
At this point you will have soft-serve ice cream which is awesome in itself. If you want hard ice cream, pour the soft-serve into a lidded freezer-safe container and freeze for 2-3 hours if you can wait that long!
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This is great idea. My son-in-law can’t take dairy and with this, I can make him, ice cream. Thanks.
Thanks for visiting! I will have more dairy free treats in the next few weeks. Please check back!
This looks yummy!!!! Love Rocky Road ice cream
Thanks for your comment!
When using the milk chocolate chips does it not add dairy to the recipe? My sister cannot have any dairy products so what would you subsitute for the choc.chips ?
The regular chocolate chips do add just a tiny amount of dairy but I can handle that much. The cookbook recommends vegan chocolate chips so there will be absolutely no dairy involved. Those kind of chips just aren’t available in my rural area. Hope this helps! Thanks for your comment.
Thanks for sharing this recipe at Cast Party Wednesday. I hope to see you again next week.
Oohhh, you’ve got such a delicious looking treat there. I’m so crazy for ice cream. Thanks for linking it up to Sweets for a Saturday.
Your Rocky Road Ice Cream looks delicious. I really wish I could have a bowl right now, it would be so good. Hope you are having a great week end and thank you so much for sharing with Full Plate Thursday.
Come back soon!
Miz Helen
Happy Monday! I wanted to thank you for sharing this delicious recipe at Recipe Sharing Monday. The new party is now up and I’d love for you to link up again 🙂
Thank you for linking up on Whisking Wednesdays last week. Just wanted to let you know I featured your recipe this week! I hope to see you back and would love you to link up another recipe or two this week!
http://pinchofthisthatandtheother.blogspot.com/2011/08/whisking-wednesdays-15.html
My son has a milk allergy. This looks great! I can’t wait to try it.
I hope you enjoy it! I have several more recipes coming in the next few weeks so please check back. Thanks for your comment.
making this right now! it’s 80F here today! also love that it’s DF 🙂
~Michelle @ The G-Free Wifey
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