For those late night cravings you can always have this handy in your freezer. Very easy keto ice cream that you can make in any flavor. I saw this recipe last year from my friend Lilly and adjusted it to my taste and flavor. She also gave me the idea of strawberry powder, which I used here. I always buy dehydrated strawberries and raspberries to have handy for baking. By they way, it's very easy to make if you have a food dehydrator. But, being in a small NYC apartment, many gadget are luxury.... unless you store them in your bathtub! So, if you have store bought dehydrated strawberries, you can put them in a Nutribullet and turn them into powder!
I absolutely love chocolate ice cream which is my go to flavor. I always use organic cacao by Viva Naturals but today I decided to use my favorite creamer, Prymal (See "Products I Love" for a link to their website). Courtney's Cacao Mocha creamer is delicious and brings back childhood memories, holding a cup of cacao in steam milk in cold winter nights. Given my obsession with this flavor, I often make it into ice cream. It already has sweetener that does NOT spike insulin levels which means, you don't need to add sugar. BUT if you like your ice cream very sweet, I would say add a heaping teaspoon of confectioners sugar.
It is important to use confectioners sugar because the regular, crystallized version will not melt. And here is a quick trick, if you don't have confectioners sweetener, put some of the crystallized one in a Nutribullet and create your own!
Now, for the important part...
Ingredients:
2 10oz or 12oz mason jars
2 cups of very cold heavy whipping cream
6 scoops (Tbsp) of Prymal creamer - Mocha Cacao (*)
6 scoops (Tbsp) of Prymal creamer - Vanilla Bean
2-4 tsp Strawberry powder (start with 2 and adjust to taste)
Chocolate extract (optional - I use Sweetlifeflavor)
Additional sweetener to taste
How to:
- Pour one cup of heavy cream in each jar
- Add Prymal flavor in each of the jars
- Add strawberry powder to the vanilla
- Add chocolate extra (if you decide to use) on the mocha cacao jar
- Add additional sweetener to taste
- Close each jar tight and shake each jar vigorously for 5-6 minutes - Yes, shake. That might me the most time consuming part of the process. The more your shake, the more the heavy cream will start to thicken.
- Put in the freezer overnight and enjoy with toppings on choice. You are welcome!
Notes:
- You can use any flavor of choice. If you choose unsweetened cacao, start with two tablespoon and adjust to taste.
- Using extracts, it enhances the flavor and it's optional. It won't affect the process but it may make you eat the whole jar!
- A trick that Lilly taught me was a way to speed up the process. You can wet a couple of layers of paper towel and wrap each jar before you freeze. Use a rubber band to hold it together. Using a wet paper towel will freeze the jar faster and you will have your ice cream within 3 hours.
- Another idea is to use frozen berries. Mix them with the heavy cream, add sweetener of choice (always confectioners sugar) and use a Nutribullet to blend. You can actually serve it almost immediately as the frozen berries will do the trick.
Let me know your thoughts if you make it.