Despite its reputation, ice cream, even fancier flavors like peanut butter ice cream, can be a very healthy dessert to serve your family when you make it yourself at home with quality ingredients.
Commercial ice cream has many dangers as I’ve outlined in the previous post Antifreeze in Your Ice Cream. Once you realize that store ice cream is best to avoid and you want to try making your own, be sure to check out my recipe plus video tutorial on homemade vanilla ice cream.
Once you’ve got the hang of the basics, you can get creative with flavors and textures to delight your family!
Homemade Peanut Butter Ice Cream
My friend Dorsey sent me this fabulous dairy free, peanut butter ice cream recipe. She just loves to experiment with Real Food in her kitchen. Dorsey shared another recipe published on this blog on how to make a delicious grain free angel food cake. It was a huge hit for readers on a grain free diet or those on a gut healing protocol such as GAPS, AIP, or SCD.
Dorsey’s encore recipe below for peanut butter ice cream will prove just as popular I’m sure.
Try this sugar free chocolate syrup recipe (sweetened with fruit) drizzled on top!
Peanut Butter Ice Cream Recipe
Recipe for peanut butter ice cream using only whole ingredients that the whole family will enjoy. Any nut butter can be used. Dairy free too!
Ingredients
- 3 cups coconut cream
- 3 egg yolks preferably pastured or free range
- 1/4 cup raw honey
- 1/2 cup creamy roasted peanut butter
- 1 tsp expeller pressed coconut oil
- 1/2 cup maple syrup or coconut palm sugar simple syrup
- 1 Tbl arrowroot powder
- 1/2 Tbl vanilla extract
- 1/3 cup barley malt
- 2 Tbl vodka optional (to make ice cream scoopable)
Instructions
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Mix peanut butter, honey, and coconut oil together well and set aside.
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Mix remaining ingredients and process in ice cream machine.
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When the ice cream is finished, spoon about a quarter of it into a container. Spoon about a quarter of the peanut butter mixture into the container and swirl with a knife. Repeat until all the ice cream and peanut butter mixture are used.
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Freeze your dairy free peanut butter ice cream treat and enjoy!
Recipe Notes
Any nut butter can be substituted for the peanut butter. I recommend this line of soaked and sprouted organic nut butters.
Coconut palm sugar simple syrup is made by using 2 parts coconut palm sugar to 1 part filtered water. Heat to boiling so sugar dissolves well. Cool and store in refrigerator.
More Information
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Yummy, I will have to try this!!
In your homemade ketchup is there something else I could use instead of the liquid whey? Could I leave it out? Dairy gives me acne unfortunately. Thanks!
Have you tryed raw dairy? I am very allergic to pasturized/homogenized diary. If I drink it, I get intestenal cramps and exzema all over my arms, not to mention it puts me in a very bad mood for a few days! However, I can drink fresh, raw milk, no problem! In fact, raw milk makes me feel better after drinking it.
If you haven’t tryed the raw milk, give it a go and see what happens!
Sure, you can sprinkle in a the contents of a probiotic capsule instead if you like.
Ariel, I just recently got a hold of some raw milk and I made it into kefir. I got a huge pimple! I can’t say for sure if its from the raw milk or not because I did have some pasturized dairy too. I will have to try again but its frustrating because the pimples don’t show up right away, its take about 3 – 7 days for it to happen. I could have pasturized dairy all the time from birth to about age 13 and then thats when various food allergies begun.
Could it be detox from all that friendly bacteria in the kefir causing a die off of pathogens in the gut? Seems a likely explanation to me.
I wish I could make this – coconut cream is way to expensive to use 3 cups at one time. Good idea though!
Yes, good coconut cream ain’t cheap. But, then again, neither is good quality grassfed raw cream which would be the alternative. Good food is not cheap no doubt.
YEAH. I get mine from Tropical Traditions and it’s the bomb. Grassfed cream is expensive too but more so affordable. Canned coconut milk would be a good compromise…
This looks so good! I love anything with coconut in it. I may have to give it a try!
I have recently discovered coconut cream and I LOVE IT. I will have to give this recipe a try. Thanks
My husband has coconut cream mixed with tahini and fermented apricot butter for breakfast many mornings.
Could you post the fermented apricot butter recipe?
Hi Linda, I did a videoblog with written recipe on this last year. Here’s the link:
https://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/video-apricot-butter/
I wondered if you did. Thanks.
Sarah, what do you mean by coconut cream? Is that the one sold in asian stores where you have dissolve a block of coconut cream in water?
thanks in advance for your response!
No, coconut cream is really smooth with no texture issues like the blocks from the Asian stores. Check out my Resources page for a description.
What can u make with peanut butter that’s dairy free? http://t.co/ltONj5XE
This looks fabulous. As much as I love the taste of dairy, the casein really bothers me.
Then use raw goat milk. It makes beautiful ice cream.
If it’s dairy free it’s not ice cream.
I agree. Coconut cream is gross. I was shocked to see the dairy-free part in the title and that’s where Sarah lost me.
Question: what do you think about the idea that it is not safe to give honey to young children?
Only before they’re 1 year. After that it’s fine.
What a yummy treat! This is perfect:) Thank you for sharing this.