Being grateful for making raw vegan ice-cream:
A few weeks ago I lost my heart to Booja Booja.
A dear friend introduced me to their Hunky Punky Chocolate Ice Cream Alternative. My taste buds jumped for joy as I tucked into this heavenly bowl containing only four ingredients: water, agave syrup, cashews and cacao.
I’m not kidding when I say it tastes like a high quality Belgian chocolate ice-cream. Creamy deliciousness in every spoonful.
In fact, I would go as far to say this is one of the best ice-creams I have ever tasted: healthy or non-healthy. And I don’t usually go for chocolate ice-cream either!
I couldn’t wait to visit my local health food store and was over-the-moon to see they stocked it. But alas it’s a tad too pricey for my present budget.
So I had the great idea to try and make my own.
After lots of trawling online, I finally found a recipe that was right up my street. Most recipes use bananas as the base, my least favourite food in the whole wide world (the only exception I make is for Banana Bread, toasted with butter please. A staple treat for me when I lived in Sydney). Thankfully I found an alternative that uses cashews and coconut milk.
It’s so simple to make: pop some soaked cashews, coconut milk, vanilla essence and rice malt syrup (my choice of sweetener) into a blender and blend away.
But then comes the tricky part.
Pour into a shallow dish, cover well and freeze. Every 30 minutes, take out of the freezer and whisk with a small whisk or mix with a fork. For six hours. That’s twelve times. Twelve times! Then leave for a further eight hours and it’s ready to eat.
And you know what, it tastes mind-glowingly delicious.
I am so impressed with myself that I’ve actually made ice cream. By hand.
Even my mum is impressed. We sampled it this afternoon – although it hadn’t had its full proper freezing time, I mean who can wait overnight, seriously!
I added a scoop to my previously made Chocolate Cup Cakes (dairy, sugar and wheat-free too) and the ultimate afternoon snack was born.
Although, it’s pretty labour intensive and pretty expensive to make, there is a huge satisfaction of knowing I’ve made this bowl of deliciousness all by myself.
Booja Booja who?!
So with this in mind, my happy for today is being grateful for making raw vegan ice-cream.
YUMMMMMMMMMMYYYYYYY!!! Man that sounds scrumptious. I’d love to be with you right now taste testing your magnificent creation 🙂
Thank you my lovely. I would offer to send you some, but it may melt in the 24 hour+ transit 😉
So you made your own Booja Booja? That’s amazing! It’s pretty much my favourite health food, not that it has much competition! That stuff is pricey to buy, this could be a nice little sideline for you I reckon.
Hey Jools, I did 🙂 It was a labour of love! Unfortunately as cashew nuts are expensive, it didn’t really work out that much cheaper and was quite labour intensive – but still very satisfying to eat the end product 🙂
Well done you!! I’ve never made my own ice cream that isn’t banana based as the nuts are a tad pricey and sometimes cashews give me a belly ache. You should look out for a little book called ‘Vice Cream’ 🙂 It’s full of vegan ice ceam recipes! Yum yum!! Xxx
Ooooh thanks for the tip my lovely Xxx 🙂