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Chocolate Ice Cream!!! 10 Months, 2 Weeks ago
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This is one of my favorite treats ever right now! I used to love non-raw chocolate ice cream, and this recipe REALLY tastes like chocolate ice cream. It's perfect for this glorious warm weather we're moving into!
To actually make this into a traditional ice cream consistency, you'll require an ice cream maker. These are really fun, and you can purchase a good one on Amazon for $50-$100 (click here for a list of choices!)
This recipe is from Cafe Gratitude's amazing dessert recipe book, Sweet Gratitude. Their desserts REALLY resemble "traditional" desserts, with astonishing exactness in flavor and consistency -- and yet with healthy ingredients, which means you can actually eat them as a nutritious meal, instead of just a treat!
I love their Chocolate Ice Cream recipe, because it's so easy and satisfying. Here's how to make it:
Soak 1/2 cup or so of hazelnuts overnight.
Soak 1 cup of truly raw cashews overnight.
The next day, make hazelnut milk with the soaked/rinsed hazelnuts (add 2 cups of water to the hazelnuts in a blender, blend well, then strain through a nut milk bag or cheesecloth)
Then add the following to your blender:
- 1.25 cups hazelnut milk (almond milk works, too!)
- 1/2 cup Vanilla Agave Nectar
- Your soaked cashews
- 5 Tbs Raw Chocolate Powder
- 1 Tbs Lecithin Powder
- 3/8 tsp Sun Fire Salt
Blend until smooth. Put in a container & chill in the fridge for a few hours. Make sure your ice cream maker, per the instructions, has been in the freezer for 24 hours or longer. Then follow the instructions for your particular ice cream maker, and in 15-20 minutes it will be the best ice cream EVER!!
By the way, if you have yet to acquire an ice cream maker and will love to make this recipe anyway, the "pudding" that's made from chilling this mixture in the fridge for a few hours is also AMAZING. Many times, I've just eaten the pudding!
Also... I usually make a double batch of the above recipe, since I LOVE IT! Isaac loves it too, so it's really smart to have plenty of it made 
Enjoy!
~ Courtney
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