N'ice Cream: 80+ Recipes for Healthy Homemade Vegan Ice Creams: A Cookbook

This book is amazing! I've followed Virpi's blog for years and love the idea behind the vegan ice creams. I'm not a vegan, but I don't eat dairy. These recipes appeal to ANYONE, regardless of their dietary preferences or allergies. They're also written in a way that you can make easy substitutions if you need/want to. I made the caramel-peanut ice cream cake tonight and used almond butter and cashews instead with great success. My children have bookmarked a number of the popsicles for their own pleasure. The Blueberry Pie Ice Pops, Salty Popcorn Ice Cream, Mango-Coconut Ice Pops, and the Zesty Orange Creamsicles are on my list! The beginning of the book has very useful information on making these without an ice cream maker, which is greatly appreciated as I previously gave mine away because it as causing bad habits :) The recipes are sweetened just enough that you feel satiated but not ever sick or too-full. I also have most of the ingredients on hand for a lot of these which makes it easier than having to load the kids into the car, drive to the store, and find obscure ingredients before losing interest and buying a box of popsicles instead. (As a side note, Trader Joe's sells cans of coconut cream, which alleviates the need to place the full-fat coconut milk in the fridge overnight. Just keep a few of these lying around and you can have ice cream anytime the fancy strikes!!!) I don't eat dairy or refined sugar and these recipes appeal to me SOOO much. The cake I made today took me about ten/fifteen minutes tops, and that was with washing the blender out between batches. This is easy, fun, and a great way to enjoy ice cream without feeling sick or guilty. Thank you for making such a splendid book! This will likely be on my counter all summer long!

This cookbook has significantly improved my family's life. I mean, we eat delicious ice cream every night now and it's not processed junk from the store loaded with sugar. Ice cream dripping down your fingers and chin is like a rite of passage for children, but with our being a health-conscious vegan family, I thought my little cherub would be destined to eat plain old boring yonanas for the rest of her life. The recipes in here are totally unique, yet surprisingly simple and the ingredient lists don't have any exotic, impossible to find items. I got the book 6 days ago and I've made 6 of the recipes and they were all incredible. The picture is of the caramel-peanut ice cream cake. It was AMAZING. However, I did need to freeze it longer than the recommended 3 hours to get the middle solid. We have also made the cinnamon bun ice cream, coconut sundae and dreamy chocolate sundae. So so sooooooo good. BUY THE BOOK!

I was rather disappointed in this book. Many of the recipes are for ice pops or milkshakes. Some are repetitive changing only 1 ingredient and the results have been inconsistent. I was looking for recipes for vegan ice cream for my new ice cream maker and some of the recipes don't require a machine.

I bought this for my daughter's 13th birthday that is coming up. We are vegans and have major sweet tooths, so this book is perfect. As I tell people all the time, being vegan is not a sacrifice, it's a joy and made even more joyous when it's so easy to whip up plant based, yummy treats such as the ones in this book! The recipes are easier than I thought and I can't wait to try them out. Since my daughter feels that ice cream is a food group, I'm thinking she'll love it ;-)

I've tried two recipes so far, and they were just okay. They thicken and freeze up in my ice cream maker before they can get creamy, so am disappointed in the texture. However, the book is gorgeous, the ideas are wonderful, and I will keep trying.

I love nice cream!!! It tastes amazing- usually better than the real stuff. Super convenient because you can have the ingredients in your pantry and not even make the trip to the store when cravings hit.Bonus: I actually feel good after eating it!

I've only tried one of the recipes in this book. The recipes are easy to follow and versatile, allowing you to make ice cream with or without a machine, and there are even ice pop recipes, too. However, I was not very pleased with the one recipe I tried, which was the chocolate avocado ice cream. It turned out bitter and I threw the whole batch out. It's also not accessible for people who live in food deserts and can't get things like raw cashews and dates, thus perpetuating the myth that veganism and healthy eating is for the privileged.

Love the recipes included here. I love ice-cream but am eating healthy, mostly Paleo, so I can't have a lot of dairy and trying to stay away from sugar. I like these recipes and they have also given me other ideas for coming up with my own combinations.

I felt I had to write a measured review on this book. There is no doubt that the recipes are wonderful, well thought out and they do work - I have tried some of them. And I do realise that the point is to have healthy ice cream and not the stuff that is full of fat, sugar and cellulose.But.Although this book says that you do not need an ice cream maker, I disagree. After experimenting and comparing my results with the photos, I can only come to the conclusion that the authors used a professional ice cream maker to make their ice cream. My ice cream turned out rock solid. Every time. I have made ice cream before, I know that you have to freeze-and-stir if you make it without using an ice cream maker. I did this. I also know that this ice cream was not going to be 'soft scoop' like 'normal' ice cream. But I have been cooking for forty years, I know a thing or two about cooking and I can only conclude that the ice creams in this book, at least in the photos, was made with a professional ice cream maker.I cannot fault the recipes, they are lovely, tasty, fresh and very healthy. But buyer beware - unless you have a professional ice cream maker (and buy that I mean the ones that cost £200 plus) your ice cream is not going to turn out like in the photos in the book.In conclusion, this makes this book useless to me. I say again, th recipes are gorgeous and they work. But rock solid ice cream is totally unattractive and hard/unenjoyable/impractical to eat. This book is sadly going to the charity shop.

SO many great recipes in here including my all time favourite, pistachio!!

Beautiful pictures, delicious and worth the effort recipes

This is a simple and easy to follow ice cream cookbook, with plenty of choices to help decided what ice cream treats to make.

Com certeza está na minha lista de livros de receitas favoritos. Dicas muito interessantes acerca da preparação de sorvetes, picolés, milk shakes, cones de waffles, coberturas. Uma surpresa saborosa foi o sorvete de pipoca que ficou delicioso. Precisava de um livro de receitas de sorvetes na minha coleção de livros de receitas e esse se encaixou perfeitamente às minhas necessidades. As receitas são maravilhosas... algumas mais fáceis, algumas mais difíceis, porém todas saudáveis e saborosas. O livro é, também, muito bonito. Valeu muito a pena.