Healthy cookie dough ice cream? That means you can eat twice as much, right?
Right???!!!
Is there anyone in this world who doesn’t love cookie dough ice cream? Melty vanilla ice cream with bite-sized pieces of soft, unbaked cookie dough packed into each creamy scoop. What’s not to love?!
At least, that’s what I was thinking yesterday as I devoured this cone.
And then went back for seconds.
Healthy Cookie Dough Ice Cream
(can be gluten-free)
Recipe found here: Healthy Ice Cream Recipes.
- 1 1/2 cups creamer (such as Silk) or canned full-fat coconut milk (see nutrition link below, for notes on a lower-calorie substitution)
- 1/2 cup milk of choice (or omit and increase the creamer or coconut milk to 2 cups)
- 1/4 cup brown sugar or coconut brown sugar (Agave or pure maple syrup will also work. I haven’t tried xylitol in this recipe.) (40g)
- 1 packet nunaturals stevia, or 1 extra tbsp of the sugar or agave listed above
- 1/8 tsp salt (don’t omit)
- 1/8 tsp baking soda (This is for flavor and can be omitted if desired)
- 1 and 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- chocolate chips
Mix all ingredients (except chips) in a dish. Transfer to your ice cream maker. (I have a Cuisinart, and it took 15 minutes to turn the liquid into ice cream.) Mix in chips. Eat now, or freeze for 20 minutes if a firmer texture is desired. (Note: homemade ice cream has its best texture if eaten the same day it’s made.) If you don’t have an ice-cream maker, freeze mixture and then re-blend in a Vita-mix or Blend-tec. Or you can use a different ice cream recipe as the base and still make the following cookie dough recipe:
For the cookie dough:
(Alternatively to the recipe below, you could also use my recipe for Cookie Dough Truffles.)
- 1/3 cup plus 1/4 cup oat flour (70g) (You can probably sub a different flour; I’ve just not tried it and therefore can’t vouch for the results.)
- 1/8 tsp salt
- 1/4 tsp baking soda (for flavor)
- 2 tbsp brown sugar or coconut brown sugar (You can use xylitol; you’ll just lose that extra “cookie dough” flavor from the brown sugar) (20g)
- 1 tbsp plus 2 tsp xylitol or white sugar (21g)
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- 2 tbsp plus 2 tsp milk of choice, or more if needed (40g)
- optional: 1 tbsp vegan butter or oil (vegetable or coconut oil) (14g)
Mix your dry ingredients very well, then add in wet and mix. Squish into a giant ball, then break off pieces and stir into the already-made ice cream base.
I’m really can’t stand cilantro!! It’s not that it tastes like soap to me, I just don’t like it. lol I’m actually not surprised that you don’t like avocado. It tends to have a very mild flavor – and if I had to guess, you are probably what is known as a non-taster…which is why you don’t care if something is as sweet as what other people like. My husband (who is a non-taster according to testing done in high school biology class) thinks the avocado has NO taste. lol It’s just slimy to him. He says he’ll leave it to those of us who can taste it. 😀
Love cookie dough ice cream! Do you know of any brands of chocolate chips that stay soft in the freezer? It seems like all the ones I buy become like little rocks and then I can’t taste the chocolate in them 🙁
if you buy melting wafers or melting chocolate which isn’t as high in cocoa content they will stay much softer in the freezer. I’m in Canada and I get them at Bulk Barn. You could also take also make softer chocolate chips by melting dark chocolate and adding a little bit of coconut milk and firm it in the fridge. Then just before adding it to the ice cream, break it up into pieces.
The only thing I’m pretty against food wise is coconut. Coconut flavoring I’m okay with but actually shredded coconut on things (especially desserts!) makes me queasy!
I don’t know you, but I love you! 🙂 I am making this today!! I can not wait!! Oddly enough I just made mini cookie dough cookies, which will go perfect in the ice cream!!!
I absolutely detest walnuts. I like every other type of nut but cannot stand the taste of walnuts, I don’t like them in anything, I’ve even thought of going the “I’m allergic” route! I don’t understand the dislike of coconut though I love it, it’s a close second to chocolate 🙂
So I am babysitting tomorrow night and bringing my new ice cream maker and the kids asked for Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough. I was searching everywhere for a healthy version and what do you know? You posted it this morning! You are seriously a mind reader!!!!!
Oh my god, so many avocado haters?!! I love them, just ate a whole avocado without anything else, haha.
I hate mushrooms of any kind and mashed potatoes (it’s a texture thing, I like potatoes in general). As a kid I was the most fastidious eater, but thankfully I’ve gotten better over time 🙂
Yes, but that’s because mushrooms are awful on every conceivable level. *shudder*
I’ve heard that same thing about cilantro! But I absolutely love it. Fortunately, my husband loves it, too, because I use it a lot in my cooking!
This looks amazing!
I can’t think of any foods that I really hate that everyone else loves. There are certainly a few foods I don’t like, but they don’t seem to be popular ones. My big issues tend to be with slimy or gelled textures. Hmm, are olives popular? I don’t care for those at all. They have such a strong flavor.
I’m very much with you on the cilantro. It tastes very strongly of detergent to me. Even just a tiny amount makes a dish inedible.
I’ll take your share of avocados though. Love them in salads, sandwiches, and even a soup or two.
I have the cilantro gene too!!!! People look at me like I’m crazy. I always have to ask about it in restaurants. I can’t even stand the smell of the fresh herb. Here’s a tip I’ve learned though…if you douse it with lemon juice it will neutralize the flavor to at least a tolerable level. I do this with salsa if I really want to have some. Also, if it’s pureed…like really pureed and in something acidic, I can stand it. It’s really about the oils in the leaf for me at least. Crunching into a cilantro leaf will make me choke.
But yay!!!!! Cookie dough ice cream!
Really? So lemon can cover that hideous smell/taste? I have been having the same problem with cilantro since I remember myself! I only found out about that gene-thing 3 years ago! Everytime I was eating something that had even a hint of cilantro, was like biting on a soap and when I was telling people, they looked at me like I was an alien! At the beginning I thought that maybe the dishes hadn’t been rinsed well or whatever but then figured it out…
Thanks for the tip… From now on, I will be carrying lemons everywhere I go eheheh (I live in a country where cilantro is like a national herb!!! IT’S FREAKING EVERYWHERE! 🙁 )
Don’t get me wrong…lemon won’t cover the taste completely. But it does the smell. At least so that it’s not offensive. I found this out accidentally when making a tagine. And thank god I did!