Description
This ridiculously creamy fresh strawberry ice cream uses just 4 simple ingredients and no ice cream maker (nor Ninja Creami!) is required! Deliciously sweet, refreshing, and unbelievably dairy free!
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 pint fresh organic strawberries
- 2 cups (480 mL) heavy vegan cream, cold
- 1 can (11 ounces) vegan sweetened condensed milk
- 1 tbsp vanilla extract*
Instructions
- Prep: Place a large bowl or the bowl of a stand mixer into the freezer to chill. Wash and hull the strawberries.
- Make the strawberry reduction: In a food processor or high speed blender, blend the hulled strawberries into a puree. Pour the puree into a small saucepan, and heat on medium-high heat on the stovetop until the mixture begins to bubble. Reduce the heat to medium, and continue to stir occasionally until the strawberry puree reduces down to about 1 cup or roughly 240 g. Pour the reduction into a bowl to set out to cool to room temperature. To speed things up, cover the bowl and place it into the fridge to cool.
- Make the ice cream: Once the puree is cool, remove the bowl from the freezer and pour the vegan heavy cream in. Use a hand mixer or stand mixer with whisk attachment, and cream the heavy cream as is until you achieve stiff peaks, about 3-5 minutes. Then add in the vegan sweetened condensed milk and vanilla extract. Mix again until thoroughly combined.
- Finish the strawberry ice cream: Pour in the strawberry reduction, and mix again until fully combined, stopping the mixer every so often to scrape the sides of the bowl to fully incorporate.
- Chill: Pour the strawberry ice cream into a 9×5 loaf pan, and place into the freezer for freeze for 4 hours, or overnight.
- When ready to serve: Allow the ice cream to sit out for 10 minutes. Then scoop and serve!
Notes
Sweetened condensed milk: I like Nature’s Charm oat milk sweetened condensed milk here because it’s a neutral flavor, and allows the strawberry flavor to really shine. Edward & Sons is also really good, so you can use that as well! It will just have more of a coconut flavor.
Vanilla extract: Make sure you’re using a vanilla extract with alcohol. The alcohol will help make this strawberry ice cream more scoop-able.
