Benefit Jewels Vintage

Last night Aislinn and I had an ice cream party! We made Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Ice Cream and it was wonderful. I believe no ice cream is bad but when you put your hard work into it and know exactly what the ingredients are it tastes a million times better! Below I am going to outline how we made this treat as best I can. It's a slightly complicated process so invite a buddy over and make a night of it!




The first step is to make the cookie dough:

3/4 cup dry sweetener
1/2 cup margarine
1/2 cup oil
3 tbs. water
2 tsp vanilla
2 1/4 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda (optional)
1/2 tsp salt
1-1 1/2 cups chocolate chips

Cream together wet ingredients and sugar. Sift together dry ingredients in separate bowl, except chocolate. Add chocolate to wet mixture and blend thoroughly. Slowly add dry ing. to wet mixture until mixed. Make dough into 1/2" to 1" balls. If you are using a real ice cream maker then you should freeze the dough balls for an hour. It will help them stay together.

The Ice Cream is made up from:

1 package silken tofu
Between 3/4 to 1 cup plain soy milk
1/3 cup maple syrup or brown rice syrup
2 tsp vanilla

In a food processor blend all ingredients until very smooth and creamy.

In a real ice cream maker:

Add ice cream base and frozen dough balls into frozen cylinder. As you churn the dough balls might clump together but just open cylinder and poke apart with a spoon. After churning occasionally for about 20 minutes (or however long your model suggests) you should have delicious ice cream. Vegan ice cream stays a little softer so If you want to it firm up you can put it in the freezer once churning is done.

If you do not have an ice cream maker:

Put ice cream base in a sealable container and freeze. Remove from freezer and defrost for 20-40 minutes. Blend again in food processor. Spoon back into container, mix in your cookie dough balls, and refreeze again. Remove from freezer 5 minutes before eating. (these instructions courtesy of How it All Vegan)

*If you cannot find vegan chocolate chips at your local grocer buy a dark chocolate bar and chop it up with a knife. You can add interesting flavours this way as well!