Aimee Ryan is the incredibly talented food blogger over at Wallflower Girl and she absolutely loves coconut milk ice cream. I’ve been following her blog for at least a year now and every single one of her posts are beautifully photographed and positively mouthwatering. She’s one of those bloggers who just gets it right every time.
When I saw she’d published a cookery book of her very own on Coconut Milk Ice Cream I jumped at the chance to review it.
I have to admit I was somewhat sceptical about using coconut milk to make ice cream. There was no way this was going to be comparable to the real thing, was there? I was going to have to put this through a taste test.
Containing over 80 recipes for vegan and grain free ice cream recipes there are plenty to choose from, and I opted for trying out the mayan chocolate, one of Aimee’s three favourite ice cream flavours (the other two being lemon poppyseed and salted caramel).
Oh my, how I was wrong! It started while I was whisking the mixture every half an hour to make the ice cream the old school way. I don’t own an ice cream maker any more (the replacement one I was sent after my first one exploded bright blue coolant all over the contents of my freezer also ended with the same fate and I’ve not yet replaced it) so following Aimee’s instructions I was whisking every half an hour for three hours.
After each whisk I licked the spoon.
Before it had even solidified into proper ice cream I became a coconut milk ice cream convert.
Oh… my.. goodness!
I had no idea! It’s creamy and delicious, just like real ice cream, but not like any old ice cream, like posh expensive ice cream that you need to let sit for 10 minutes or so before you tuck in with a spoon and scoff the entire tub in one go.
The next time I do a supermarket shop I will be stocking up on coconut milk!
Aimee’s self-published book contains recipes for familiar flavours like strawberry, pecan praline and rum and raisin, and plenty of exotic unusual flavours like wasabi, sweet chilli and fresh ginger. She has also included sections on the health benefits of using coconut milk, advice on the ingredients she uses, special diets and substitutions and tools and equipment. There are also recipes for other sweet treats including creamsicles, milkshakes, ice cream sandwiches, cones and sauces. Each recipe is refined sugar-free, grain-free, egg-free and vegan and uses easily obtainable ingredients.
Aimee has given permission for me to reproduce her Mayan chocolate recipe here so you can try it yourself.
Her book retails at £14-99 but is on offer just now from Amazon for £11-14 plus free UK delivery.
Book: Vegan & Grain-free Coconut Milk Ice Cream
Author: Aimee Ryan
ISBN: 9781499281026
Publication Date: 22 May 2014
Cover: Paperback & Kindle
RRP: £14-99 (£6-80 for Kindle)
Mayan Chocolate Coconut Milk Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 720 ml full fat coconut milk
- 2 tbsp arrowroot powder
- 20 grams cocoa powder
- 1 tsp ground cinnamon
- 1/3 tsp cayenne pepper or a tiny bit more if you like the heat!
- Shetland sea salt
- 120 ml Canadian maple syrup
- 90 grams plain chocolate chips
- 1 tbsp alcohol (optional)
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Instructions
- Mix 60 ml coconut milk with the arrowroot powder in a small bowl and set aside.
- Pour the rest of the coconut milk into a large saucepan with the cocoa powder, spices, salt and maple syrup and bring to a boil, stirring all the time.
- As soon as the mixture begins to boil, stir in the arrowroot mixture to thicken the liquid.
- Remove from the heat and stir in the chocolate chips and alcohol. Keep stirring until all the chocolate has melted.
- Chill the mixture in the fridge until cold and churn. Alternateively, place in a freezerproof bowl and pop in the freezer for 30 minutes. Remove from freezer, whisk with a hand held blender and return to the freezer for a further 30 minutes before repeating. Do this every half an hour for at least three hours.
- Transfer the ice cream to a freezer-safe container and freeze for at least 3 hours or overnight.
- To serve, remove ice cream from freezer and leave to soften at room temperature for 10 minutes before scooping.
Notes
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Two of my favourite foods: coconut & ice cream. This book must have some amazing recipes. Thanks for the review.
Rum and raisin
Rum raisin 🙂
Pralines
My favourite flavour is pistachio!
Chocolate 🙂
Clotted Cream
Salted peanut and caramel ice cream
Vanilla with homemade raspberry vinegar 🙂
Raspberry Ripple
White chocolate & raspberry
Chocolate
Rum and raisin but its a hard choice x
Raspberry or Cherry Ripple Yummy!! 🙂
Vanilla everyday!
pistachio
Oh, I didn’t know Aimee had published a book – how exciting. Asking us to pick a favourite flavour is just mean, because it all depends on mood and quality of ice-cream. But if you can find a good one, pistachio is pretty special. It’s also been the flavour of the worst ice-cream I’ve ever eaten too!
Coffee every time!
salted caramel and peanut
Mint choc chip
chocolate fudge brownie .. drool!
Apple pie and custard, I had it at the Icecream farm in Chester, was divine!
I recently tried some ginger ice cream. It is now my new favourite!
Raspberry Ripple xx
chocolate
Mint choc chip or cookies and cream
My all time favourite flavour has to be mint choc chip but I am partial to coffee flavour too 🙂 x
My favourite is chocolate or yoghurt cherry x
love mint choc chip ice-cream – always tastes fab
coffee flavoured!
i love mint choc chip mmmmmm
Mint choc chip – an oldie but a goodie!
I love anything with caramel – if it is salted caramel, even better!
I love bubble gum ice cream reminds me of being a kid! (It was the only time I was allowed to swallow bubble gum!)
vanilla!!!!
OMG; This book was made for me. I adore ice cream, I adore coconut and I adore all the other flavours too. I cannot wait to try some of these myself.
Rum and raisin 🙂
This sounds amazing btw!! I still have an ice cream maker so I’ll have to dust it off!
chocolate, definitely! 🙂 faye x
Yum! So exciting!
I do both the frozen banana and flavours in a blender ice cream as well as making ice cream this way… Usually with soya cream and the same arrowroot thickener.
My favourite flavour ice cream ever made is rosemary, yes you read that correctly, rosemary. It’s incredible!
Aimee’s book looks totally amazing! ♥
My favourite flavour ice cream is pistachio but sadly I haven’t had any in years (since going dairy free) 🙁
My favourite is Coffee flavoured ice cream
My favourite is vanilla.
Chocolate
it’s gotta be coffee or mint choc chip! mmmmm
I’ve been meaning to try coconut milk ice cream for ages! I love chocolate but my favourite is definitely pistachio!
I’ve been meaning to try coconut milk ice cream for ages!
mint choc chip or coconut
Rum and Raisin.
CHOCOLATE!!!!! … Ahem… Chocolate.
rum and raisin
Strawberry 🙂
vanilla all the way
really good vanilla
Black-currant is my favourite ice-cream flavour.
My favourite ice-cream flavour is Blackcurrant
My favorite flavor is Rum and Raisin.
Mint choc chip or cookie dough. Love them. 😀
VEGAN LOVELINESS. BRILL
@nightirosiecomp
Chocolate every time – but choc and chilli sounds even better!
It’s so lovely Julia!
chocolate 🙂
chocolate 🙂
Mint chocolate chip
I love homemade Vanilla & Daim Bar Ice-cream 🙂
banana flavour!!
Banana all the waaaayyy x
Honeycomb! Nom nom nom.
pistachio 🙂
It’s pretty much been ingrained in my head since I was a child that “vanilla is a waste of calories”. haha so chocolate is definitely my favorite! :]
I love Mint-Choc Chip
My favourite flavour is coconut. There is an ice-cream parlour (over an hours drive away) that does 60 flavours but I always go for the coconut! We don’t go very often as it’s a 2 hour round trip, so it would be lovely to know how to make my own.
Mint Choc Chip x
Pistachio
mint choc chip
Banoffee!
I love black cherry ice cream xx
Mint
this looks so good – I have tried some ice cream with coconut milk which wasn’t quite right so I have bookmarked this one – I don’t have an ice cream maker so am always interested to hear how people reach their creaminess without a machine
chocolate!
Toffee! MmM! 🙂
Neopolitan. If pushed it would have to be chocolate.
I do eat dairy, so mint choc chip is mine, but I do love coconut, so would be interested to try some of these recipes. Or maybe I would just send it to my vegan daughter, what do you think?
Vanilla with honeycomb.
For me it has to be strawberry ice cream
can’t beat mint choc chip
Raspberry ripple.
Mint chocolate chip
Mint
Pistachio
I love coconut ice cream… I add Maltesers, if I’m feeling a bit naughty, hehe!!
Vanilla 🙂
These recipes look delicious! I love any kind of icecream!
chocolate brownie
Maple Pecan Ice Cream
I’m intrigued by this alternative to ice cream. Just may have to give it a shot, once I figure out what arrowroot powder is.
Chocolate Chip Ice cream!! Yum 🙂
cookies and cream
As a child I used to love a slice of brown soda bread spread with ‘proper’ vanilla & topped with strawberries, these days I’m more of a brownbread, Bailey’s & vanilla fan!
Being part Irish and partial to the odd drop of whisky, now and again, it would have to be “Irish Cream Ice Cream” for me. Pleased you can make this without having to use an Ice Cream Maker.
Maura
My favourite is blueberry, lime and coconut – not from this book but BBC Good Food.
Yuuuum! Can’t wait to try this out, never had coconut milk ice cream even though I’ve been vegan three years. Definitely need to fix that! I used to love the ACE ice cream and meringue flavour ice cream. Haven’t attempted ice cream ever since going vegan!
My favourite flavour is pistachio.
I love ice cream, but traditionally made can be too calorific, so this book sounds like a godsend.
My husband and I were delighted to discover coconut ice-cream in our local grocery store in Sechelt, British Columbia (Canada). What a treat to have good tasting ice-cream without dairy in it!
Isn’t it absolutely fantastic! I’m a firm convert now – I have to try all the recipes in this book! Coconut milk is less expensive than cream/eggs too so it’s a good budget food 🙂
Thorntons Pralines and cream
Being dairy intolerant I buy coconut ice-cream which is my favourite, but would love to be able to make my own.
My favorite flavor of ice cream is mint chocolate chip
I’d love to have a book on coconut milk ice cream, especially one that doesn’t need an ice cream maker!
Pralines and cream or anything caramelly, oh so naughty but ooooooooooohhhhhhhhhhhhh so nice!!!
Coffee marshmallow!
Ps my fave flavour is mint choc chip – always
I have never made ice cream, but I am definitely going to try this weather – sounds perfect what with all of the hot weather we have been having!
I love vanilla so I can add to it – syrups, sprinkles, chunks of cookie dough etc! I do love strawberry too though!
My Favourite flavour of ice cream is Vanilla, I love it plain but also love topping it with many different things
rum and raisin – think this combo would also be perfect with coconut milk!
Yum! Very excited about this. Always looking for dairy free ice cream recipes.