Iced Coffee “Ice Cream” - Iced Coffee, dairy free, optional soy free low sugar content, “Ice Cream”- diabetic friendly Ingredients

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Iced Coffee “Ice Cream” - Iced Coffee, dairy free, optional soy free low sugar content, “Ice Cream”- diabetic friendly

Ingredients

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By Debra J. Eichler-Elliott on Friday, February 26, 2016 at 8:09am

Iced Coffee “Ice Cream” - Iced Coffee, dairy free, optional soy free low sugar content, “Ice Cream”- diabetic friendly

Ingredients

• 1 1/2 cups vegan cream cheese cheese (preferably organic), or half pureed white bean/navy bean, half, cashew butter, unsalted...for nonsoy ice cream
• ½ cup espresso, cooled to room temperature 
• half of  a pureed avocado
• teaspoon of your favorite organic oil, optional, for richer texture
• 1 tsp liquid stevia extract (I would recommend NuNaturals or SweetLeaf)
• ½ teaspoon pure vanilla extract
• you can use any good mixer/blender/processor....if you don't have the desert bullet blender

Directions

1. In a large bowl, stir together all of the ingredients. The mixture will look strange and chunky, but that’s okay, the Dessert Bullet machine will blend it all together later.
2. Spoon the mixture into an ice cube tray or silicone cube mold (silicone molds work best for easy cube removal). Freeze until solid.
3. Thaw the frozen cubes for about 30 minutes.
4. Fill the Dessert Bullet chute with the cubes, place a bowl under the spout, then turn the machine on. Gently press down on the plunger until the ice cream starts to come out.
5. Scoop the ice cream into serving bowls. Serve with some mini dark chocolate chips, some fresh strawberries or spoons alone. Enjoy!

Yields 3 serving.
Calories: 93
Fat: 2g
Carbohydrates: 5g
Protein: 13g
I’m really liking the short and simple ingredient list! I know cream cheese might sound like a strange ingredient to use in an ice cream, but it is just as versatile as any vegan cheese, vegan ricotta and vegan yogurt. It has a very neutral flavor, too, so you can pretty much do anything you want with it. The cottage cheese adds richness and creaminess, this is the perfect amount of espresso (not too much and not too little), the stevia adds natural sweetness, and the vanilla rounds out the overall flavor and brings everything together.