If you are anything like me, you love homemade ice cream! But not just any homemade ice cream…but a healthy and naturally sweetened dessert!
Our family absolutely loves homemade ice cream from our Cuisinart maker that we purchased awhile back (highly recommended by the way!). In a matter of 30 minutes we have a fresh batch of delicious ice cream! We can use quality raw milk and cream and an array of ingredients!
Here is our favorite concoction:
4-5 cups fresh whole milk (preferably raw – for more info on this, check out realmilk) – best texture is achieved by replacing 2 cups or more with heavy whipping cream (we scrap the cream off the top of our raw milk for this purpose)
1 cup peanut butter
1/4 cup cocoa powder
1/2-3/4 cup rapadura (our favorite natural sweetener choice, but you can also experiment with maple syrup, agave nectar, etc)
2 tsp vanilla extract
Combine together in a mixing bowl and pour into your ice cream machine, as the manufacturer’s instructions suggest. If you don’t own an ice cream machine…you can also just put it in your freezer till frozen!
For our coconut ice cream recipe, visit here.
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Yum! That looks sooo good!!
Thanks for participating in Kitchen Tip Tuesdays, by the way.
You always have such good stuff to share! 
Will you be posting about your tomato canning adventure soon?
I’d love to hear what all you made! 
Hey, thanks for the recipe it really will make a good dessert for Valentine’s Day!
This recipe sounds SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!! The boys were asking me recently if I could make some ice cream. I may just have to!! I’ve used maple syrup in mine and it is very good!! I usually just make vanilla, but chocolate and peanut butter? YUM!
This looks really good.
Wow, this sounds scrumptious! I’m going to try this next week! Thanks for sharing!!
Yum! I had seen a recipe for coconut milk strawberry ice cream, now I’ll have to add this to the list of things I want to make as well.
DeAnna, I was wondering if you could post the recipe for the coconut strawberry ice cream? It would be great because alot of us in our family can not have ice cream made with dairy.
Thanks
Here’s the link to the coconut strawberry ice cream. Its from the site Wholesome Goodness. She also has a link to a recipe that she used and then modified — the original recipe had agave, she changed it to have stevia so I guess you could use hers or the other recipe depending on your taste. http://wholesomegoodness.net/2008/09/15/a-truly-dairy-free-sugar-free-ice-cream-recipe/
Thank-you so much!
OMG, this looks so frickin’ good. I want to make it like yesterday. One of the Fierce and Nerdy bloggers, Debra, convinced me to get an ice cream attachment for my Kitchen Aid in her post today. So I think I’ll try this recipe, first things first along with hers. My husband is going to be really happy. To see Debra’s article and get a recipe for peach ice cream, go here: http://fierceandnerdy.com/?p=1403
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sounds de-lish! I just scored an ice cream maker from a yard sale. Nothin beats ice cream made with real milk!
Just wanted to thank you – I made this ice cream today (had everything but the cream) and we all LOVE it! It was SO easy, made me decide homemade ice cream wasn’t such a hassle after all. And I don’t normally like chocolate, but because this used cocoa, I really like it! Can’t wait to try the coconut (MY favorite flavor!).
I made this tonight and while it tasted great, I need some help in the texture department! When you mix cold cream/milk with peanut butter and then put it in the Cuisanart freezer bowl, it just blobs up! Help!!
Can’t wait to try this one! I don’t have an ice cream maker, but am excited to know that I can just stick it in the freezer.
I just put it in the freezer. It thickened nicely while mixing. The stuff on the spoon sure was yummy!