Secretly healthy birthday cake batter ice cream, with no eggs or dairy!
I had the privilege of babysitting two adorable little girls last night, and I brought my Vitamix.
As a teenager, I didn’t really like babysitting, even though do I love children.
It’s just… after a while, I get to a point where I never want to see another Barbie or play the role of the dad in “House,” can’t stand the show Dragon Tales, and wish the kids would just go to bed already.
(Now I am very sorry for tormenting my own babysitters and never going to sleep for them.)
That being said, I had the rare opportunity (rare because I pretty much stopped babysitting after high school) to babysit for these little angels last night and actually found myself having fun!
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I got the cake batter ice cream (or birthday cake ice cream) idea from my popular Cake Batter Milkshakes.
And last night seemed like a perfect opportunity to try it out, since kids love sprinkles. Plus, kids seem to really love blending things. In any case, it beat watching Dexter’s Laboratory.
The girls adored the cake batter ice cream, which we called “Fairy Dust Ice Cream.”
Did you ever babysit?
When I babysat, the kids often wanted to just watch tv, which made my job easy, but boring. And some of the shows were really awful. Cow and Chicken, Ed Edd and Eddy, Lizzie McGuire, SpongeBob…
(Ok, so I secretly liked SpongeBob.)
Were you good about going to bed for your own babysitters? I was not. But these kids were incredibly good.
I’m already looking forward to spending time with them again. Our next project is to cake batter-ify these Vegan Donuts.
Or, as the girls would say, fairy dust doughnuts!
Cake Batter Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups milk of choice
- 4 tbsp sweetener of choice
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1 tbsp sprinkles, or homemade sprinkles
- 1/2 cup butter, or coconut, almond, or cashew butter (for no butter, try this Coconut Milk Ice Cream)
Instructions
- *For more cake batter flavor, add 1/4 tsp butter extract, which is surprisingly vegan. If you don’t have an ice cream maker or high-speed blender, see these directions.Whisk ingredients. If you have an ice cream machine, churn according to manufacturer’s instructions for your machine. Or if you have a high-speed blender like a vitamix, pour the mixture into ice cube trays and freeze, then blend the frozen ice cubes until smooth, using the tamper to blend evenly. Eat now, or freeze about an hour for a firm texture. Due to the lack of preservatives, homemade ice cream is best the day it’s made (you can technically freeze up to a month and thaw before consuming).View Nutrition Facts
Notes
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What a great idea! It is colorful and perfect for kids.
I love my Vita-Mix… and as a kid my dad would take me to the Texas State Fair where we’d watch the VM demo. How funny is that?!? I loved it.
Ah the Texas state fair… I didn’t know they allowed healthy-living products such as Vita-Mixes in there ;). Well, unless they were blending deep-fried twinkies? LOL last year I heard they had deep-fried Coke! Not sure how that would work…
Check this out: http://texasstateveggiefair.com/
While the traditional state fair is funnel cakes and hot dogs, there is a Texas State Veggie Fair, which is very progressive. Though the VM demo was at the old fashioned fair.
I love everything about this recipe! You are most likely (if you weren’t already) now those girls favorite babysitter 🙂 I love the name too – how perfect for the children!
I didn’t babysit that much but I’m going home in July to Omaha and have already offered to babysit for my best friend’s ADORABLE 1 year old boy. I cannot wait!
Seriously? I was only looking up the Cake Batter Milkshake recipe last night and now you came up with c.b. ice cream!! I love it! I wish I had a babysitter who brought their vitamix (!) and made us ice cream (!) with sprinkles (!).
I do love babysitting and I have been doing it for ages! Also, I have been an aupair twice 🙂 But I certainly didn´t like having someone babysit ME! All I wanted was my mummy and I rarely went to bed when she wasn´t there 😉
I babysat all through college. The family I worked with ended up being MY second family and I am still very close to them three years after graduating! I worked in the husbands law firm through college too – and just recently went to the bar mitvah of the oldest boy. It is awesome watching them grow!
I rarely ever got babysat..because I would CRY the WHOLE time.. because I wanted my mom!
I wish I had YOU as my babysitter when I was younger!!! Those girls are so lucky to be able to enjoy your awesome kitchen creations. You seriously amaze me with everything you make…so much creativity and nothing but pure healthy REAL ingredients. I love it..and you! 🙂
Awwww 🙂
My kids would LOVE you!!!!!!!
I was good for my babysitter. But I did often ask a lot of inappropriate questions, to which she replied “Ask your parents. PLEASE ask your parents!”
ah! I lOVED Lizzie McGuire! and before I ever started babysitting! haha 🙂
but agreed, i HATE playing house. UGH!!!! im like, cant I just sit and watch you guys play? but nope! they wont have that!
i dont remmeber if I was a good “going to bed” child, but my mom told me I would scream and cry when she left the house with my babysitter. I was a demon child!! 🙁 haha
What can you use to blend your ice cream if you don’t have a vita-mix? Will a regular food processor work?
My specialty with the kids I babysit for has been brownie cupcakes (brownie batter in cupcake tins). Easy to decorate, not as messy to eat.
Hi Katie. I hope you don’t mind me answering – Barb I’ve used a food processor for Katie’s ice cream recipes before and it’s worked fine. 🙂 I just sometimes use less liquid.
Thanks!!
Thanks LB! 🙂
Hi Barb,
I wrote the following in the recipe: If you don’t have a vita-mix, you’ll probably have to thaw longer, but you can still get a yummy ice milk.
I hope it works for ya! 🙂
I babysit my niece and nephews. I love tricking them into eating soy ice cream and such. They have no clue and they love it. And I do remember giving my babysitters a hard time when it came to sleeping. If I only knew then what I know now about how wonderful napping is, I would have happily taken all of them.
My cousins are AWESOME! They actually WANT to try all my crazy soy food… and my one cousin even became a vegetarian. Awww :).
My job right now is babysitting, but it’s not on a schedule. I babysit when people call. One family has twin boys and they just play video games all evening and go to bed when I tell them to, so I kind of just laze around and watch television. The other family I have to keep entertained but no television for them while the parents are gone. I put the little girl down for a nap and the boy just likes to talk.
My parents were always home in time for bed, so my babysitters never had to deal with that.