The absolute best Healthy Ice Cream made with wholesome, nutritious ingredients, and no frozen bananas! What are we using instead of bananas? Sweet Potatoes! Don’t worry — you can’t taste them! This recipe can be made dairy-free, vegan, vegetarian, and gluten-free. Top this creamy chocolate ice cream with a
healthy caramel sauce and finely chopped dark chocolate. Try some of our other healthy ice cream flavors next like this blueberry ice cream or cashew ice cream. This isn’t your typical banana “nice cream” that has taken the internet by storm. Essentially, “nice cream” is blended up frozen bananas with a few other ingredients added and labeled as healthy ice cream. To me, those concoctions just taste like flavored bananas with a smoothie-like consistency — not a thick and creamy ice cream texture. So today we’ve got a healthy ice cream without
bananas and it actually tastes like ice cream. It’s rich, creamy, and deeply chocolate-flavored. This healthy ice cream is made with natural, wholesome ingredients and free of artificial sweeteners. It’s also very easy to make — the mixture can be whipped up and loaded into the ice cream maker in a matter of minutes! Healthy Ice Cream doesn’t have strange, specialty ingredients — there’s no need to make a trip to a health food store. Everything can easily be found at just about any grocery
store. And, there are only six ingredients needed! So if there are no bananas in this recipe, what exactly are we using? Promise you’ll stay with me here? A sweet potato. More on this below!
Let’s start by chatting about ingredients. Healthy Ice Cream Ingredients
QUICK TIPConfused about coconut milk options in the grocery store? Look for shelf-stable, unrefrigerated cans of coconut milk. You’ll find canned coconut milk on the international aisle, with Latin or Asian products. For this ice cream, I personally use Lite Thai Kitchen ®Coconut Milk.
Let’s talk more about sweet potatoes
Recipe tips
Ice Cream Maker
QUICK TIPIn my particular ice cream maker, it takes about 25-30 minutes for this ice cream to set up. If the ice cream is still too soft for you after being churned, you can transfer the contents into an airtight container and freeze until further thickened. We typically put it through the ice cream maker and then freeze it for another 2-3 hours.
Can I substitute ingredients in this recipe?Of course, you can always experiment and try any substitutions you’d like, but I likely won’t be able to tell you if your specific substitution will work out. I’ve only tested this recipe as written and can’t say how recipe substitutions will work out. The most common question on this recipe is how to replace the chocolate chips. There is no substitute I know of that will work for chocolate chips. Cocoa powder won’t work the same in this recipe.
QUICK TIPOne substitute you can make (that we’ve tested) to boost the protein content of this ice cream is to replace the coconut milk with a Premier Protein® chocolate shake. With this addition, you may want to leave out the coconut sugar since the protein shake is fairly sweet.
Healthy Ice Cream Dietary Concerns
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Note 1: Use dairy-free chocolate chips if you want this ice cream to be vegan and/or dairy-free. Serving: 1serving | Calories: 214kcal | Carbohydrates: 30g | Protein: 3g | Fat: 9g | Saturated Fat: 8g | Cholesterol: 1mg | Sodium: 183mg | Potassium: 334mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 16g | Vitamin A: 6438IU | Vitamin C: 1mg | Calcium: 100mg | Iron: 1mg We do our best to provide accurate nutritional analysis for our recipes. Our nutritional data is calculated using a third-party algorithm and may vary, based on individual cooking styles, measurements, and ingredient sizes. Please use this information for comparison purposes and consult a health professional for nutrition guidance as needed.
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Store bought ice creams are often full of preservatives that you won't need in homemade ice cream (which is likely to be eaten very quickly!). They're also full of sugar. Sugar is important in ice cream. But you really don't need as much as they put in commercial ice cream.
What makes ice cream healthy?Did you know that ice cream happens to be a huge source of vitamins A, B-6, B-12, C, D, and E! It doesn't stop there. Apparently, ice cream contains vitamin K, which prevents blood clotting. Let's not forget that ice cream also contains niacin, thiamine, and riboflavin.
Is Homemade ice cream better with or without eggs?You can make tasty ice cream without them, but there's a reason that almost every recipe published in the last 50 years calls for them. Here's why: After water, egg yolks are mostly fat and protein. Fat, which freezes differently and less hard than water, makes ice cream soft and creamy.
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