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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I love how you brought your vita-mix with you to babysit! Fairy dust ice cream sounds amazing especially with this summer heat 🙂
This ice cream looks fabulous…and the name is so cute!
I hate babysitting, but maybe I’ll grow out of it like you did. When I was younger I was always really shy and quiet around my babysitters which is weird because now I hate it when I babysit a shy kid. Ooops. 😉
Awww how sweet! Fairy dust ice cream haha I love kids 🙂 When I used to babysit I would always make homemade pizzas with the kids. They loved that
Ohh I love the “fairy dust” ice cream idea! It looks so pretty and I bet it tastes even better! You are an excellent food photographer too- your pictures always look so pretty! I’m glad you had a nice time babysitting! I’m with you- I think I’d enjoy babysitting now more than I used to! And I wasn’t so bad for my babysitters but the combination of me and my 2 older brothers was the bad part- the 3 of us together must have been quite a handful!!
I hate babysitting! Ugh! I’ve managed to avoid it most of my life, but I have one friend who used to always make me watch her kid. Thankfully, that kid is now 14, so my babysitting days are over. I’m pretty sure the task would have been much easier with a scoop (or five) of that ice cream. Geez, I NEED a Vita Mix!
I love that you can make icecream without an icecream maker! I have a food processor and have used it to make banana soft serve, but I bet I could make your ice cream recipes as well. I was never watched by a sitter in the evening, so I never got the opportunity to terrorize them about not wanting to go to bed. I used to go to daycare during the day and at nap time, I would just lay there, bored to death. I never was a nap-person.
I babysat constantly! I actually liked it a lot better then than I do now. I find that I have much less patience for watching kid TV and replaying the same game over and over and over and over now. Although I hung out with my niece (7) and nephew (5) this past weekend and I had NO idea how excited they would be to shred papers. I bet those kids liked blending, because these kids went bat-sh!# crazy shredding paper after paper!
I think I just might be making this!
I am babysitting this summer for 6 week straight! I’m running out of ideas to do with the kids.. Yesterday we made vegan orange sorbet, but they wanted something like real ice cream. I will have to try this.
Thanks for the ideas!
Wow Katie this is beautiful! I love that it’s “fairy dust,” I bet the girls you babysat liked that 😉
I babysat a bit, but I never got into it so much. I feel like parents got less willing to pay for a babysitter as the economy went bad, so I lost lots of opportunities. I probably wasn’t good at going to bed for a babysitter because my babysitter was oftentimes my older sister; and no one likes to take orders from his/her older sister!