This Happened the Other Night!

Amazing and refreshing paleo ice cream

One of the hardest things for us since going "Paleo" are the sweets or later night snacks.  There are a few treats that I crave and one of them being ice cream.  Of course, I have pinned a zillion things pertaining to paleo ice cream but I just never took the plunge, until the other night.  I decided that I needed try a recipe and my mom brought me over an ice cream maker.

After I scanned a million paleo ice cream recipes, they were all different in some sort of  way so I just decided I was going to whip up my own.  I figured the worst I would have to do was make sure it was sweet enough.  Let me shoot of on a tangent on how cool an ice cream maker really is!  I was so amazed that after 20 or so minutes, my mixture looked like ice cream.  So cool!  Now onto my ice cream recipe.

Paleo Blueberry Chip Ice Cream

Prep Time:  5 minutes

Mix Time:  20-30 minutes

Yield:  8 or so yummy little dishes

INGREDIENTS:

1 can of coconut milk

1/4 cup of maple syrup

3/4 cup of blueberries

1 TS of vanilla extract

1/3 cup of dark chocolate chips

DIRECTIONS:

Get out that handy dandy food processor.  Put in all of your ingredients except for the chocolate chips and pulse until mixed well.  I actually only put in half of my sweetner (of which you can sub for honey or agave) and tasted it before adding just a little more (I used less than 1/4 cup).  

Once mixed, put in your chocolate chips and just pulse a little bit to get them mixed around.  You could pulse more if you want your chips broken up a little bit more than I did.  Then place your mixture into you ice cream maker and follow the directions to get it started.  It should be ready to eat in about 20-30 mintues depending on your machine.  It is that easy!

NOTES:

My kiddos were not keen on the coconut flavor as much as myself and the hubby.  The hubby liking this is something sort of a miracle because I think he is allergic to eating fruit or something.  He found it refreshing and I loved how it was not so heavy like regular dairy ice cream.  Obviously, I can't imagine why you can't sub your  own fruit choices and combos.  I am going to try a blackberry/raspberry chip soon.

Enjoy!