Strawberry Nice Cream (Vegan Ice Cream)
Strawberry nice cream is a refreshing vegan ice cream full of fresh strawberry flavor. This frozen dessert is super easy to make. Only 4 ingredients are needed to make this healthy frozen treat.
Lime and fresh mint give this strawberry ice cream a frozen strawberry mojito flair.
What is nice cream?
If you haven’t heard of nice cream before you might be wondering what it is? Nice cream is homemade vegan ice cream that is made with frozen fruit and non-dairy milk.
This vegan ice cream is a delicious non-dairy alternative to ice cream if you can’t eat dairy or just don’t want to.
You can make this healthy frozen dessert with almost any fruit that you like. You can even add cocoa if you’re in the mood for healthy chocolate ice cream.
What You’ll Love About This Recipe
- Healthy. This frozen dessert is a real treat and it’s made with real food ingredients that you’ll feel good about eating.
- Easy. Making nice cream is super easy. You just need a high-speed blender and, if you have one, an ice cream maker. The ice cream maker is even optional.
- Endless flavor possibilities. Once you’ve figured out the basic method for how to make nice cream you can make it with endless flavor combinations.
Recipe Notes
Nice cream is made with frozen bananas, coconut cream (or other non-dairy milk), and fresh frozen fruit. The frozen fruit is blitzed in a blender. What you end up with is a healthy creamy, dairy-free ice cream.
What you’ll need to make nice cream
The basic ingredients for this recipe is frozen fruit and full-fat coconut cream.
- Frozen bananas. 3 to 4 frozen bananas. Extra ripe bananas work best for making nice cream. The banana adds sweetness and creaminess to this frozen dessert.
- Coconut cream. 1/2 cup of coconut cream of full-fat coconut milk. You can also use other non-dairy milk, cashew milk is a great choice and is especially creamy.
- Fruit. 2 cups of strawberries, frozen. You can also use other varieties of fruit.
- Lime juice. The juice of one lime.
How to make dairy-free ice cream
- Add the frozen strawberries, frozen bananas, lime juice, and coconut cream to the high-speed blender.
- Blend until smooth. The mixture will be the consistency of soft serve. You can eat it now or freeze more for a firmer consistency.
- Optional: Add the mixture to an ice cream maker and churn until the mixture is a firmer consistency.
- Place the frozen nice cream in a container and store it in the freezer.
- Remove from the freeze 10 minutes before serving to soften the ice cream.
This vegan ice cream can be served straight from the blender if you want a soft serve consistency or it can be frozen in an ice cream maker or in a container in the freezer if you want a harder freeze.
Recipe Variations
Different Fruit
This vegan ice cream can also be made with different fruits. These are my 3 favorites. Just freeze the fruit and then blitz it in a blender to make a creamy, fruity frozen treat.
- Mango
- Peach
- Raspberry
Chocolate vegan ice cream
If you’re craving chocolate ice cream, you can easily make this into a chocolate nice cream recipe.
- Chocolate. Add a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to make chocolate nice cream. Alternatively, you can add in a 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
- Chocolate, peanut butter. Add the chocolate as stated above and a few tablespoons of peanut butter.
- Rocky Road. Make the chocolate nice cream and fold in chopped almonds and mini marshmallows.
Storing + Freezing Tips
How to freeze
This ice cream is delicious right out of the blender. However, If you want this dairy-free ice cream to have a firmer texture, freeze in an ice cream maker or simple scoop it in to a bread pan, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for several hours before serving.
How to store
Store any leftover nice cream in an air-tight container in the freezer. Bring out of the freezer 5 to 10 minutes before serving to allow the nice cream to soften up a bit.
More Frozen Desserts That You’ll Love
Fresh fruit popsicles are always a refreshing summer dessert. Two of my favorite flavored ice pops are my Watermelon Popsicles and my Creamy Mango Lassi Popsicles.
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Strawberry Nice Cream
Equipment
Ingredients
Nice Cream Base
- 3 to 4 extra ripe bananas, frozen
- 2 cups strawberries, frozen
- 1 Lime, juiced
- 4 ounces Coconut Cream, or full fat canned coconut milk
Toppings
- 1 cup strawberries, diced
- 1 Lime, cut into wedges for squeezing
- 2 tbsp Fresh Mint, finely diced or julienned
Instructions
- Add the frozen fruit, coconut cream, and lime juice to a high spped blender. Process until smooth.
- Add the fruit mixture to the ice cream maker and churn until the mixture is the consistency of soft serve ice cream.
- Serve immedietly or freeze for later.
- If you do freeze the mixture, bring it our 10 minutes before serving to soften before serving.
Laura’s Tips + Notes
- Mango
- Peach
- Raspberry
- Chocolate. Add a 1/4 cup of cocoa powder to make chocolate nice cream. Alternatively, you can add in a 1/4 cup to 1/2 cup of chocolate chips.
- Chocolate, peanut butter. Add the chocolate as stated above and a few tablespoons of peanut butter.
- Rocky Road. Make the chocolate nice cream and fold in chopped almonds and mini marshmallows.
- How to freeze: This ice cream is delicious right out of the blender. However, If you want this dairy-free ice cream to have a firmer texture, freeze in an ice cream maker or simply scoop it into a bread pan, wrap tightly in plastic wrap and freeze for several hours before serving.
- How to store: Store any leftover nice cream in an air-tight container in the freezer. Bring out of the freezer 5 to 10 minutes before serving to allow the nice cream to soften up a bit.
- Serve immediately – Nice cream will have a pretty soft consistency right out of the blender.
- Freeze for later – For a firmer texture freeze for at least a few hours. If frozen overnight the nice cream will be too hard to scoop right out of the freezer. Let the nice cream sit out for 5-10 minutes before scooping.
