Raw Chocolate Ice Cream

There’s no refined sugar or milk in here and it’s completely raw. When we first made it we weren’t sure what to expect but when we tasted it we realized it was exactly like chocolate ice cream…only healthier. Yummy and good for you – you can’t go wrong.

Ingredients

1 cup young coconut meat – may need two young coconuts to yield 1 cup meat

1/4 cup agave

1 cup cashew nuts – soaked in water for about an hour

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 cup water – could use coconut water if you want

1/4 maple syrup

2 tbsp cocoa butter/powder

1/4 tsp sea salt

1/4 tsp vanilla bean seeds – can use liquid vanilla as well

1 cup brazil milk – recipe below

Scrape meat out of coconuts. Measure out about 1 cup. Put in blender. Add cashew nuts into blender. Melt cocoa butter lightly on stove (90 degrees Celsius is enough it melts very easily). Add cocoa butter to blender. Add agave, maple syrup, cocoa powder,salt,vanilla, and brazil nut milk. Blend. If you have an ice cream maker you can put the mixture in there or if you are like me and don’t you can pour the mixture into ice cube trays. Leave overnight. The next day take out ice cube trays, pop the chocolate ice cubes out and put it into food processor. Blend it to give it the ice cream consistency. Voila. Raw chocolate ice cream.

Brazil Nut Milk

1 cup raw brazil nuts, 4 cups water, 1/2 cup agave or raw honey, 2 tbsp cocoa butter, 1 tbsp vanilla, 2 packets stevia, pinch of sea salt.

Blend nuts and water. Strain milk through a nut milk bag or just a fine strainer. Rinse blender, place milk back in and add remaining ingredients. Blend together and your done.