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Vegan Ice Cream Recipes
by Mattie    
Rating 
 
4.0

Best Homemade Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream

I don't give it 5* because I've had better store-bought vegan vanilla ice cream, but do give 4* because it's the best homemade version. I've tried many other recipes, none of them worth making again, but this one is a keeper. I used Silk Coconut milk. Next time, I'll try the cocoa butter and vanilla beans, hopefully to have a richer vanilla flavor. Since most tofu packages are 12 oz, I made 1.5 times the recipe. I following the recipe exactly. The hardness came out the same level as those in the supermarket (not rock-solid). I think that the key is to blend the xanthan gum enough, up to 3 min as the author says. I have a high quality blender (Vita-Mix), and could still tell that the thickness wasn't allowing it to mix well by itself, so I manually mixed it too while the blender was going. This is my first time using xanthan gum in ice-cream, and also my first time where my ice-cream didn't come out rock-solid, or decent hardness but with the nasty alcohol flavor. I'm looking forward to trying out the cashew version someday and experimenting with other flavors (cocoa and coffee).

Owner's reply

Great that this worked out for you bandita! Thanks for sharing your experiences on the xanthan gum.

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