This smooth and creamy peanut butter ice cream can be totally dairy free and vegan, with just 150 calories per serving!
Just a few basic ingredients, and no ice cream machine required.
Top with peanuts, chocolate syrup, and Coconut Whipped Cream for the ultimate vegan peanut butter ice cream sundae!
Also Try This Chocolate Mug Cake
The recipe can be made with peanut butter, almond butter, cashew butter, sunbutter, or even coconut butter.
Have fun experimenting with different add-ins, such as shredded coconut, mini chocolate chips, jam or diced strawberries (peanut butter and jelly ice cream!), a pinch of instant coffee, or homemade Chocolate Truffles.
Recently I’ve discovered the new Ben & Jerry’s nondairy Netflix & Chill’d, and it is dangerously good. If you want to make your own healthier version at home, try adding crushed pretzels and crumbled Black Bean Brownies to this peanut butter ice cream base.
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Is it obvious that I really love ice cream??
My favorite way to make this ice cream is with crunchy peanut butter and canned coconut milk.
For a healthy lower calorie option, feel free to use almond milk, soy milk, oat milk, or your favorite milk of choice.
Above, watch the video of how to make the vegan ice cream
Vegan Peanut Butter Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 2 cups milk of choice
- 4-5 tbsp sweetener of choice
- 1/2 cup peanut butter, or allergy friendly sub
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp pure vanilla extract
- optional banana, chocolate chips, chopped peanuts, etc.
Instructions
- Stir everything together. If using an ice cream maker, process according to manufacturer’s directions. Otherwise pour mix into either ice cube trays or 1-2 shallow containers. Freeze. Once frozen, pop the block out of the containers, thaw just enough for your blender or food processor to be able to handle it, and blend until smooth. If you don’t have a high-speed blender like a Vitamix, you can still use a food processor – just thaw a little longer, then scoop out and freeze up to a half hour for firmer ice cream. For authentic presentation, I scooped it out with an ice cream scoop.View Nutrition Facts
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Notes
More Peanut Butter Recipes:
Chocolate Peanut Butter Nice Cream
Chocolate Chip Peanut Butter Bars
I have so many favourite foods! I was going to say chocolate and then there’s oats…and almond butter…can’t choose! 🙂
OMG this looks incredible!!! I love pb icecream and this recipe is so simple! Gotta love ease! 🙂
I have a carton of unsweetened soya milk waiting to be used up in the fridge! This link is going top of the list that’s is growing on the sticky notes on the desktop of my laptop (they are all links to your recipes at the moment BTW!)
As for a favourite food, its kind of treat foods that i really can’t afford to eat too much of – on the sweet side thats dried fruit starting with figs, then raisins/sultanas/berries, mango, prunes oh there’s so many to choose from. I’ve been craving semi/sun dried bananas recently – not the chips but the whole chewy ones. Via http://www.graze.com (a fab UK thing) i discovered there are some i don’t like though – physalis (cape gooseberry) and goji berries.
So can you narrow it down again Katie? Or is that just impossible? – is there a variety of chocolate you prefer? Plain or mint, orange, with nuts etc?
Hmmm… my favorite chocolate is Dagoba 100%. But I also like Endangered Species chocolate-raspberry bars (chocolate raspberry is my favorite combo), and Theo chocolate-coconut bars (my second favorite combo). Oh, and mint chocolate Wild bars. Mint chocolate is pretty awesome too! Eh, I just like chocolate! 🙂
see i knew you couldn’t choose 😉
had my fortnightly graze box today with a couple of new things – the sweet chilli dipping sauce to go with the dried mango was too spicy for me! and one mix had dried pomegranate – not keen on the crunch in the middle of those. But the chewy banana coin, coconut flake & raisin mix was yummy!
Hi Katie ! This looks amazing I’m gonna try it tonight. Do u think it would work if I used a food processor ? I don’t have a vita mix and my blender isn’t too good.
It wouldn’t work to turn into ice cream… but you could probably get a yummy ice-milk texture out of it, maybe similar to a Wendy’s frosty?
Ooh, not to disagree to be annoying, but FYI I have tried this (ok, not this exact recipe, but something that involves frozen bananas and frozen “ice cubes” of flavored milk) w/ a Cuisinart and as long as you use the pulse button instead of just putting it on, it actually *does* work! Whoo hoo! 😀 Also, relatedly, if you Cuisinart frozen pieces of banana using pulse instead of just on, you actually get soft-serve ice cream, swear to god, no additional ingredients needed!
It definitely won’t work in a food processor with the recipe as written, but if you cut the milk way back (basically just blend frozen bananas and add milk to the desired consistency, no ice necessary), you can make something like soft serve as Liz and others have said. Good luck and have fun experimenting!
YUM! you always make food that looks so dang good! And it is sooo simple! I love it. My heart belongs to chocolate as well- but sometimes I have an affair with peanut butter…shhhh 😉
I made the base today. Excited for some pb ice cream tomorrow!
Oh, and my favorite food is definitely nut butters of all kinds!
“It was $6 on sale. See, you do not need to spend a ton of money for cute dishware!”–
Totally true…the cheap and thrifty finds are the best kind! I never spend more than $10 and usually try for about $3 bucks. TJ Maxx, Marshalls or Thrift shops. Lucky to live in an area with tons of great thrift shops (must hunt and peck and look for diamonds in the rough but when found…such a good feeling!)
The recipe looks delish.
and I’m with you on the chocolate trumping peanut butter 🙂
Gosh I need a Vita!!! But I definitely plan on using my (not so) trusty blender to make peanut butter banana soft serve soon 🙂 Thanks for the idea!!
My favorite food in the world? Probably peanut butter. But dark chocolate is a CLOSE second. And I love that dish!
Can’t wait for my room mate with a Vitamix to move in so I can steal it and make all of your recipes!
Among my favorite foods are apple pie, sweet potatoes, pesto, and perfectly ripe mangoes.
Oh man, I was never so lucky in college! Well, I guess I was lucky in a way… my roommates hated to cook, so at least I got all the fridge and freezer space ;).
good recipe. I am so pumped too that I finally got my Vita! I will try it out.
I agree with you…chocolate is my favorite and I know it sounds odd but veggies too. 🙂 Without both our bodies would be so angry at us, as they both make me feel so happy and good!