Belated Foodie Friday: Raw Vegan Ice Cream or Nice Kream

Before becoming vegan and whilst being vegetarian and stuck in a rut with my eating disorder I wouldn't have dreamed about having ice-cream for breakfast. But hey, now I do, almost everyday. With this sickening heat in Queensland, it's all I want; something cold, refreshing and delicious. I'm not talking about your usual ice-cream though, not the dairy laden or coconut milk stuff, I'm talking about the low-fat fruit based stuff. After getting a high-speed blender for Christmas, I've made and created a fair share of fruitified ice-cream recipes, or as I like to say nice-kream recipes, which I have shared with you all below. However my all time favourite recipe in which I've created is my raw vegan banana and vanilla ice cream, with raw chocolate "ice-magic" and raw "cookie-dough" a little higher in fat then the other recipes, but boy this will take you back to your child hood. Instead of me babbling about how good this stuff is, let's just get straight to the recipes, that's what your here for right? (By the way, these are probably snack size, so increase the ingredients to your appetite, accordingly)

Blueberry-banana bomb diggity nice-kream

• 1 1/2 frozen banana
• Dash of coconut water or filtered water (literally a dash, it will become smoothie like, if you add to much)
• 1/2 cup of frozen blueberries 
• 1/2 medjool date 

Blend in a high-speed blender (vitamix or optimum) until thick and ice creamy, don't worry if there are bits of medjool date not 100% blended, it's adds a gorgeous texture. (Also top with more yummy fruit)

Pink pitaya hydro berry blast sorbet

• 3/4 frozen banana 
• 1/3 half a frozen red pitaya (or dragon fruit for you, Aussie folk)
• Dash of coconut water or filtered water
• 1/4 cup mixed frozen berries (preferably organic) 
• 1/3 medjool date

Blend in a high-speed blender (vitamix or optimum) until thick and ice creamy! Top with more fruit/buckinis/coconut whatever your heart desires

Raspberry kisses sorbet

• 1 1/2 frozen banana
• Dash of coconut water or filtered water
• 1/2 cup of frozen raspberries 
• 1/2 medjool date

Blend in a high-speed blender (vitamix or optimum) until thick and ice creamy (This one will dye your lips red)

Tropical papaya banana nice kream

• 1/2 cup red flesh papaya frozen 
• 1 1/2 frozen bananas 
• Dash of coconut water or filtered water
• 1/2 medjool date 

Blend in a high-speed blender (vitamix or optimum) until thick and ice-creamy, add more fruit, rawnola etc

And finally what you've all been waiting for,

Groovy raw choc chic cookie dough vanilla banana nice kream with ice-magic.

For the cookie dough

• 1/2 cup raw almond meal (I use almond pulp and make my own)
• 1 medjool date
• 2 tbs of cacao nibs 
• 1/2 vanilla bean pod 

Blend all ingredients in a high-speed blender till dough-like. Roll into balls using a teaspoon.

For the ice magic

• 2 1/2 tbs of raw cacao or carob powder
• 2 tbs of raw coconut oil
• 1 tbs of coconut nectar 

Melt coconut oil over very very low temp (I put mine on my dehydrator, but it's usually already melted because of this heat) makes about 8

Whisk in cacao or carob powder till smooth (you must whisk) 
Add coconut nectar and whisk, (adjust sweetness or bitterness accordingly to taste, adding less or more cacao or coconut nectar)

For the nice kream

• 1 1/2 - 2 frozen bananas
• 1/2 vanilla bean pod
• 1/2 medjool date

Blend the banana nice kream ingredients in a high-speed blender (vitamix or optimum) until thick and ice-creamy drizzle with "ice magic" it will go hard immediately and top with as many cookie dough balls as you like (or mix them in) seriously friggin delish.

I hope these recipes wow your taste buds like they do to mine, healthy, nutritious and full of carbs for essential energy, if you haven't already gotten on the banana nice-kream train, your gonna want to, especially after trying these recipes (specifically the cookie dough one)

Demi x