The base for my vegan Peanut Butter cup ice cream are cashews, evaporated coconut milk and condensed coconut milk (for the last two ingredients I’m using Nature’s Charm brand). Make sure to chill the cans of evaporated and condensed coconut milk in the fridge before using them in the ice cream. For best results chill the ice cream mixture in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or overnight before turning it into ice cream. Cold ingredients help the ice cream freeze faster which prevents ice crystals from forming. I use spring water to ensure that the taste stays really pure but if not available you can also use regular tap water. A little bit of whiskey is added because it really helps with the creaminess of the ice cream. There’s no taste of alcohol in the ice cream however.
If you want to make this ice cream safe for children you can leave the alcohol out. Just make sure to otherwise stick to the process and put the mixture in the fridge to cool it down before transforming it into ice cream. This will help with the creaminess.
More delicious vegan ice cream recipes:
- Vegan Vanilla Bean Ice Cream
- Vegan Chocolate Ice Cream (and Chocolate Orange Ice Cream)
Vegan Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream (GF)
Ingredients
For the ice cream:
- 120 g cashews
- 120 ml (1/2 cup) evaporated coconut milk chilled
- 240 ml (1 cup) spring water chilled
- 160 g condensed coconut milk chilled
- 1/5 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp vanilla powder
- 20 ml (4 tsp) whiskey
- 120 g salty smooth peanut butter
Add-ins:
- mini peanut butter cups
Instructions
For mini peanut butter cups:
- Make mini peanut butter cups as per instructions. You will only need about 9 mini peanut butter cups for this recipe (for the quantity as originally written).
- After peanut butter cups are set, chop some of them in half, some of them even in smaller bites and leave some of them whole. It's up to you how many you're going to chop and how many you're going to leave whole. 1/3 of everything is a good measure. But I do like a lot of whole peanut butter cups in my ice cream.
For ice cream:
- Make sure to put the ice cream maker container in the freezer at least 12 hours before you start making ice cream. For best result chill in the freezer also the container in which you will store the ice cream.
- Add all ingredients for the ice cream in a blender and mix well together. Make sure the mixture is really smooth.
- For best results chill the mixture in the refrigerator for a couple of hours or overnight before proceeding.
- Take the mixture out of the refrigerator and give it a stir. When the ice cream machine is running, pour the mixture into the ice cream machine. Churn according to the directions.
- After ice cream is made in the ice cream machine, take it out, transfer it to a freezer-safe container, adding chopped and whole peanut butter cups as you are layering the ice cream so that the cups are relatively equally scattered throughout the ice cream. Seal the container and put it in the freezer for 30 hours so that the ice cream hardens even more and peanut butter cups also become hard (the ice cream needs only a few hours to harden but the cups need 30 hours).
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