It is so hot here!
Can someone please invent the Ice Cream Diet?
Where you eat ice cream for breakfast, lunch, and dinner? A few of you told me there already is an ice cream diet. Why am I surprised? After all, there’s a grapefruit diet, a cabbage soup diet, even a No White Foods diet. So why not ice cream?
Why not, indeed.
Hey, it can still be a healthy diet.
After all, there’s always this: Spinach Ice Cream.
Yay! We can now follow an ice cream diet and be healthy at the same time. So go ahead and embrace your new healthy ice cream diet right away, by devouring a gigantic serving of the following recipe for healthy mint chocolate chip ice cream. I guarantee that, by the time you finish your serving, you won’t feel hot anymore.
And if it happens to be cold where you live… please send some of your cold weather to me in Texas. I’ll happily mail you our hot weather in return!
Maybe I wouldn’t want to be on an all-ice-cream diet. I’d miss my pancakes and oatmeal too much! Not to mention salads, beans, and even spaghetti. But if I were to eat ice cream all the time, mint chocolate chip—my favorite, as a kid–would probably be the flavor I’d consume most often.
Healthy Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream
(Makes 1 huge serving)
- 1/4 tsp pure vanilla extract
- scant 1/16 tsp salt – don’t omit
- pinch uncut stevia OR 1 tbsp sugar of choice
- 1 cup milk of choice – See note below
- 2Â tbsp chocolate chips OR sugar-free chocolate chips (recipe on page 199 in the book)
- 3-6 drops pure peppermint extract, or as desired
- optional, I like to add 1 tsp cocoa powder
- optional pinch spirulina or natural food coloring
*This ice cream has a very light texture when made with almond milk. For a creamier texture that’s more like real ice cream, use coconut milk–the kind that is full-fat and comes in a can, not a carton–or cashew cream. To make it look like real ice cream, scoop out with an ice cream scoop.
Mix the ingredients together, and pour into ice cube trays or 2 shallow containers. Freeze. Once frozen, pop the blocks out of the container and blend in your Vitamix. (If you don’t have a vitamix for vitamix ice cream, you’ll probably have to thaw longer, but you can still get a yummy ice milk. Or try this healthy ice cream in your ice-cream maker.) Feel free to add more chocolate chips, post-blending. But be sure to add the 1-2 tbsp before blending!
View Mint Ice Cream Nutrition Facts
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Serving suggestion: Serve with a side of fresh mint. And…
Accompany it with this recipe: Healthy Shamrock Shakes.
Milkshakes are allowed on the Ice Cream Diet, right? There’s spinach in this milkshake too!
Hi Katie, This looks amazing! Do you know if it would work in an ice cream maker?
Opps Guess I should read all the comments before asking! Just saw your response to a previous question about this 🙂 Happy St. Patty’s day!
Saw your coconut-chocolate ice-cream on pinterest! Very clever!
So I started looking around your web site. Love it!
Just one little note! This Mint CC ice-cream saddened me that you had to put coloring in it just for the photo shoot! I think it would be just as beautiful without the green coloring! Because I am an all naturalist it really made me unhappy to see that. Would love to see the one you make without the coloring. Coloring in food actually looks very unappetizing!
Thanks for listening to me rant a little! 🙂
Hi Joy,
You’d probably like this one better! https://lett-trim.today/2011/03/13/spinach-ice-cream/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
What about Cookies ‘n Cream ice cream??
Here’s a thought – how about adding an avocado in place of coconut milk? Not only will it be creamy, but also a pale green minty colour!
Loving the blog and can’t wait to try this recipe…
This is AWESOME ! I absolutely positively DETEST bananas, and it makes me so angry because they are so good uber good for you!! I have tried dozens of ways to incorporate bananas into things, so I can get the benefit of their goodness without having to taste the banana flavor. Until now, I have not had any success at all. However, I am now happily sitting here sipping a chocolate mint shake, with the benefits of banana AND spinach, and cannot taste the banana one single little bit! Thank you soooooooo much!!! Love your blog!
I have a question…do you know if you’re able to make a big batch and store this in the freezer, or must you serve it right away? There is an ice cream making technique I read about recently (that does not use an ice cream maker) that is very similar to what you do here – make the ice cream base, pour it into a container or freezer bag, then break it up and process until smooth in a food processor or blender. But then, instead of serving right away, you pour it into a container and pop it back in the freezer and freeze until firm. I’ve only seen this done with dairy ice cream bases, but I’d love to be able to do it with almond milk. It’s almost exactly the same technique, so I don’t see why it wouldn’t work – unless there is a significant chemical difference between dairy versus nondairy milk that might cause it to emulsify differently in the blender. Any thoughts? Thanks!! <3
Sorry, I haven’t tried it, but like you, I don’t see why it would make a difference. 🙂
Hi katie:)
I just bought an ice maker & I love ur recipes. Anyway, I was Googling more recipes & I think a website : bodyofscience.com or some name close to that, has taken one of ur ice cream recipes without giving you credit? Sorry, I’m using my phone so I don’t know how to copy & paste the link onto this msg. Thought id just let u know since u work so hard on them and they r tasty PLUS healthy.
Cheers,
Samira
Thank you, Samira. I can’t tell you how often it happens… almost every day, it seems like :(.
I couldn’t find the recipe on bodyofscience when I searched, so if you have time and get a chance, please do leave the link.
Hey Katie!
First off, LOVE this website. I love ice cream, shakes, pies, cookies… well.. anything sweet or with chocolate 😉
Two questions about this recipe…
1: when it freezes, does it become really icy? I really want creaminess!! 😀
2: can i use a blender?
Let me know soon! It is freezing right now. Can’t wait to try it 😀 If I blend it and it turns out icy, i am thinking of adding a frozen banana maybe and more chocolate, of course!
haha well i just read all the comments and nvm. 😛 I am going to add a frozen banana and blend it 😉
Would it be ok that if I don’t have a VitaMix that I put it in a blender or a food processor?
Oh never mind I just read the comments. I made this the other day and even though it wasn’t all the way frozen I took it out of the freezer when it was a little slushie but I couldn’t wait to eat it! And it was so good!!!!