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
- 2 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
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!
Why do you freeze before putting in the Vita MIx? Can you put all ingredients in the Vita MIx and make ice cream that way?
The vita-mix doesn’t make things cold, so it wouldn’t freeze without pre-freezing.
What Katie said. 🙂 The Vita Mix isn’t an ice cream machine, just a high-powered blender. You can do this recipe in an ice cream maker (I have), but if you don’t have one you need to freezer the mixture first and then put in the Vita Mix to get the texture of ice cream. Hope that helps!
I love you for this recipe! When I was pregnant I craved mint chocolate chip ice cream all the time!!! I live in Guatemala though and I’m not sure if I can get peppermint extract but I can get fresh mint. Any ideas on how I could use fresh mint or make my own extract
Love your site Katie! Just a question for you…i’ve tried to make a few of the ice cream recipes and i use a vitamix…but as soon as i start to blend, it just immediately turns to ice chips/grainy slushy consistency no matter how long i blend. i have been using almond breeze almond/coconut milk..and that’s the only different ingredient than you that i used. any tips? thanks so much in advance and thnx for all these great recipes!
ps..im a “new” vitamix user so i dont know if I’m just doing something wrong or….?? thanks again!
I have a question, can you make the best tasting dessert but with less than 90 calories per serving?
Silk products DO have a form of ‘soy’ in them!!! Namely: d-alpha tocopherol is soy! ……..(‘dl’ -alpha tochopherol is the synthetic form, ‘d’ is the soybean oil or wheat germ form).
Can you sub coconut milk with greek yoghurt??
Chocolate-Covered Katie, I think I just fell in love with you… I am lactose-intolerant, I don’t have an ice-cream maker, I have 4 siblings who eat ice-cream all the time… and I just sit there and watch, dying a little inside each time.. I LOVE ice-cream… (and chocolate) !
And your recipes are AWESOME!! I never knew making ice-cream was so easy! I have become totally obsessed with your website! I love to bake, but hate it at the same time, because I always end up eating too much, and your healthy recipes are perfect for me!! Thanks so much!! Keep up the good work!
Hey Katie, I love your website! Trying out this recipe, but using oat milk and my ice cream machine. Fingers crossed! Thanks for the inspiration =)
the calories and other nutritional info, is it for the entire recipe, or a specific serving size?
I love love love your recipes! But I have 2 questions:
1. how many of your desserts do you actually eat, per day, for example?
2. would this be too bad without the ‘blending’ part?
Thanks!:)