Purely Decadent’s Chocolate Peanut Butter Swirl Ice Cream
This is my family’s favorite ice cream. I’d have to say they like it quite a bit more than my homemade Vegan Vanilla Ice Cream.
When I posted that recipe last week, several people asked if I had heard of various brands of store bought vegan, gluten free ice creams. Yes, I have and here it is. Purely Decadent comes in quite a few flavors and I can attest that each one I have tasted is delicious.
Many people also asked if I had ever made coconut ice cream from scratch. In fact, I have been making it for the last few years and my boys love it. They are big coconut eaters and I will post the recipe for my Coconut Ice Cream recipe in the next few weeks.
Although it is supposed to be ice cream weather, we have had day after day of rain here in Boulder. The creek is little higher every time we walk down to it. The grey weather has been quite soothing, though the boys are home from school on summer vacation and going just a tad stir crazy.
As for the winner of last weeks Freebie Friday… Gabrielle Dodd has won a copy of Elizabeth Hasselbeck’s G-Free Diet. Hooray for Gabrielle!
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Charlotte says
I believe this company also makes coconut milk based yogurts. It is very costly around $1.79 a cup at Whole Foods. I’ve learned to make my own from scratch using yogurt starter and adding my favorite flavors to it. I also made my own coconut milk using equal parts of dried organic sulfite free coconut and boiling water. I would blend the coconut-water mixture in my high powered blender for several minutes and sieve it thru a nut bag. Add the yogurt starter, flavoring and into the yogurt maker it goes. Fantastic non dairy yogurt!
Kimberly says
I have had Purely Decadent chocolate, vanilla and mint. Those are the only flavors I have seen. I liked them all but of course, chocolate was my favorite. I recently made my own coconut milk ice cream with cherries and dark chocolate. Yummo!
Christianne says
Wow, what a great country you have that sells these products! I checked out their website too and the icecream looks delicious to me!
@ alchemille, thanks for sharing your thoughts on the icecream! When there are allergies, you allways have to be careful, obviously. On the other hand, here in Holland I have seen many people with health problems because they were undernourished. Not because they were on a junkfood diet, but because they restricted their healthy diets so much they started to miss out on essential nutrients.
Right now, the Dalai Lama is here visiting our parliament. He talked about balance and the middle road in life. To me, the middle road contains coconut icecream every once in a while :-)!
Stacie K says
I have only tried Coconut Bliss so far because of the short, recognizable ingredient list, but this has inspired me to add some almond or peanut butter into the chocolate Coconut Bliss I bought Monday-YUM! Why didn’t I think of that sooner?? Thanks Elana! You are always an inspiration.
Andrea says
I haven’t seen the peanut butter swirl with coconut milk, but my daughter and I love the mint chip made with coconut milk. I’ll have to ask the manager to order it for us!
Gabrielle Dodd says
OMG I won? How exciting! I never win anything. Will I be getting an email? ^.^
That ice cream looks amazing by the way. I might ask my local health food store to carry it, or maybe somehow send it to my mom in california for her birthday… hmm.
gfe-gluten free easily says
Popping back in … just FYI–Coconut Bliss is made from all organic ingredients, certified fair trade ingredients, gluten free, dairy free, and soy free. You can read more below. Each flavor only has four or five ingredients.
http://www.coconutbliss.com/html/flavors.html
I’ve been making a version myself with just a blender using frozen ingredients (just coconut milk and bananas lately, per Coconut Gal’s recipe). You can make lots of ice cream that way. And, you can freeze just in a regular pan in the freezer for many recipes.
Looking forward to Elana’s homemade coconut milk ice cream recipe soon!
Shirley
Kate says
Alchemille voices most of my concerns but didn’t mention that this ice cream almost surely also contains GMOs. The soybean oil and soy lecithin are problematic enough but if they’re not organic (which it doesn’t state so they must not be) they almost surely are GMO soy. The Mocha Almond Fudge has beet sugar which could also be GMO as beets are now genetically engineered. GMOs are scary, folks. Try reading Jeff Smith’s book “Seeds of Deception” to find out just how scary they are. I’d avoid them at all costs and certainly wouldn’t feed them to my children!!
LK- healthy delicious says
its been rainy here lately too. i kind of like it, but its also a crazy busy time at work ,so i don’t feel like I;m missing out on the gorgeous weather anyway.
coconut ice cream sounds fantastic!
Rebecca Cherry says
Two things: 1) Coconut Bliss is truly the best i’ve had of all the store bought Coconut Milk and Non-dairy Frozen Desserts. I am waiting for the company to follow Purely Decadent’s footsteps and make chocolate covered ice cream bars on a stick.
2) I just bought an ice cream maker attachment to my Kitchen Aid so that i can make my own non-dairy frozen desserts. i saw a recipe book called Vice Cream, but, Elana, i await your recipe; please no eggs in it, though.