Creamy, dreamy, smooth, classic, and completely dairy free homemade oat milk ice cream.
Vegan
Gluten free
Egg free
Super creamy
And just 4 ingredients
Making your own nondairy oat milk ice cream at home is so easy, you might never want to go out for ice cream ever again.
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Oat Milk Ice Cream Flavors
Chocolate: Add 1/4 cup cocoa powder to the base recipe below.
Banana: Sub half a cup of the oat milk for one ripe mashed banana.
Cookie Dough: Make up the base recipe below, and stir in your favorite cookie dough or this Chickpea Cookie Dough Dip!
Chocolate Fudge Swirl: Carefully melt 1/2 cup chocolate chips. Stir in 3 tbsp canned coconut milk until smooth. Let cool before swirling into ice cream.
Coffee: Add 2 tsp instant coffee to the base recipe before freezing. After blending into ice cream, you can also add chopped chocolate or the swirl idea above.
Leftover Oats? Make These Oatmeal Muffins
What’s your dream oatmilk ice cream?
I am a mint chocolate chip girl, all the way.
To make mint chocolate chip, simply follow the base recipe below using a neutral nut butter such as raw cashew or coconut butter.
Add 1/8 tsp pure peppermint extract (not regular mint or imitation peppermint), or more for a stronger flavor.
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Ice Cream Topping Ideas
Sliced banana or strawberries
Crumbled Vegan Chocolate Chip Cookies or Vegan Brownies
Sprinkles, shredded coconut, or mini chocolate chips
Chocolate syrup, cherries or raspberries, and Coconut Whipped Cream!
Above – Watch the video how to make oat milk ice cream
Oat Milk Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups store-bought or homemade oat milk
- 1/2 cup nut butter of choice, or allergy-friendly sub
- 1/3 cup sweetener of choice
- 1/4 + 1/8 tsp salt
- optional add ins (see earlier in this post for flavor ideas)
Instructions
- *If you don’t have an ice cream maker or high-speed blender, see these directions.Whisk all ingredients together. If using an ice cream maker, pour the mixture in and follow the manufacturer’s instructions for your specific machine. Or if you have a high-speed blender like a Vitamix, pour into ice cube trays and freeze, then blend the ice cubes until smooth, using the tamper to blend evenly. Either serve straight from the machine or freeze up to an hour for a firmer texture. Because of the lack of preservatives, homemade ice cream is best the day it’s made, although you can technically freeze up to a month and thaw before serving.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
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Mint chocolate chip all the way! I’m curious, for this recipe, do you recommend the “sweetener of choice” be a solid, like granulated sugar, or liquid, like maple syrup? Does it matter?
Honestly does not matter! Regular sugar will dissolve so liquid or granulated sweeteners both work well 🙂
Thank you Jason! I really appreciate how nice and patient you are with everyone’s questions about all the lovely recipes on this wonderful blog, and I’ll be sure to try this one out soon! (I just had some Coconut Curry for lunch, it was great and so easy to make!)
No problem, and thank you again!
Question about the nut butter… We have a nut allergy and I’m curious what else I could do to keep it vanilla flavor
Coconut butter, sunbutter, or if there’s a nut-free spread that you like the taste of (such as peabutter). We haven’t tried it with a regular butter spread such as Melt organic or earth balance, but perhaps that might also taste good… we might have to try that experiment soon!
Could I use cocoa butter instead of a nut butter? Does it have to be spreadable?
Can I sub dates for sugar? Thanks
Great question! I was wondering the same thing. I don’t see a response though. I’ll probably keep looking at other oat milk ice cream recipes and see if I can get more details.
You could definitely sweeten with dates :). We don’t know how many because we have not tried it, but we don’t see why it would not work.
What type of sugar for this recipe do you use? So excited to try this recipe!
Honestly, you have a ton of options here, so use your favorite! Coconut sugar, maple syrup, regular sugar or brown sugar, erythritol if you’re sugar-free, agave, date sugar… etc!
Could I make this with macadamia milk instead?
Yes!
Thoughts on a strawberry flavor? Just add strawberries, or do you think more is required?
This is from her almond milk ice cream post, but oat milk ice cream should be similar! “Strawberry: Use only 1 1/2 cups almond milk in the recipe. Add 1/2 cup mashed strawberries, and use a neutral nut butter such as raw cashew or coconut butter. Stir in 1/2 cup diced strawberries if desired just before serving.”
Is it possible to leave out the nut butter for a vanilla flavor? I dont have coconut butter at my store, and I’m thinking sunflower butter is too oily?
It really needs some kind of fat, or it will be ice milk, not ice cream. You could do coconut milk ice cream without nut butter though: https://lett-trim.today/coconut-ice-cream-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Can I use whole milk instead???🥛
Sure, most types of milk will work here.
Could I use cream of coconut instead of the nut butter, or tahini, or is there anything else? I only have peanut butter and I think that would be too strong of a flavor.
Cream of coconut would work! https://lett-trim.today/coconut-ice-cream-recipe/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Hi,
My boys would love this! We have several food allergies in our house, so nuts are out. We have one child that is allergic to sesame and sunflowers, so most seeds are out as well. Can you recommend a sub that isn’t seeds, nuts or coconut for the nut butter in this. Do you think avocado might work? Or a banana? Thanks so much!
You can definitely use a banana – just use this recipe! https://lett-trim.today/banana-ice-cream-healthy/%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
This turned out surprisingly good. We did chocolate with a hint of orange oil. We added more chocolate to get a dark chocolate flavor. There was a little bit of texture but when you add slivered almonds it is less significant. It tasted a little too salty so I would just go with a 1/4 scant teaspoon next time. Froze very well. We want to try with coconut milk as part of the fat and also use almond butter for more options on flavors. All we had on hand was Nutella and Peanut butter. We used mostly Nutella but also added peanut butter but it really wasn’t a noticeable flavor.
Can I use peanut butter as my but butter?