Can't Live Without Ice Cream? Try a Vegan Recipe

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If you're vegan, chances are you've heard someone say, " Oh, I respect what

you're doing, but I could never give up ice cream. " It's an understandable

reaction: ice cream is good. Really good. And many of us have a lot of positive

associations with ice cream from our childhood. But when you consider how dairy

cows and their calves are treated, it may make you scream against ice cream.

 

Thankfully there are plenty of non-dairy alternatives. Here's a very simple

recipe for vegan ice cream. It requires an ice cream maker, but trust me, it's

an investment you will not regret. (I can personally vouch for this model, which

you can get for just $50.)

 

Chick-O-Stick Ice Cream

 

Ingredients

2 cups Mimiccreme

½ cup peanut butter

2 large Chick-O-Sticks (2 oz size), crushed

 

Directions

 

Combine the Mimiccreme and peanut butter in a blender until blended.

Chill the mixture until cool (unnecessary if the Mimiccreme was already

refrigerated before step 1).

Follow the instructions for your ice cream maker (for mine, you just pour the

mixture into the frozen drum and turn the machine on; it mixes for about 20-30

minutes).

Add the crushed Chick-O-Sticks about 10 minutes before the machine is finished,

just long enough to incorporate the pieces into the ice cream.

Serve immediately or freeze (I prefer to freeze the leftover ice cream in

several small containers because it tends to freeze too hard if you use one

large container).

 

What makes this recipe so easy is Mimiccreme, a non-dairy cream that comes in a

shelf-stable carton, like soy milk. The sweetened variety is ready to go

straight into your ice cream maker, so you don't have to mess with boiling soy

milk with sugar or blending cashews or any of the other more labor-intensive

methods of making vegan ice cream. Mimiccreme is available at various stores

across the country, as well as online.

 

And for those who are not familiar with Chick-O-Sticks, they are a crunchy,

peanut-buttery, coconutty, accidentally-vegan candy from my home state of Texas.

They've been around since the Great Depression and are a staple here at ALDF.

You can find them in the candy aisle of most gas stations or you can order them

online.

 

All in all, this ice cream takes less than ten minutes to make (excluding

freezing time) and, as far as I'm concerned, it can go toe-to-toe with any dairy

ice cream.