Dairy-free Mint Chip Ice Cream is made with a coconut milk base studded with dark chocolate chips. The only other ingredients you need to make this paleo dessert recipe are hemp seeds, honey, peppermint, vanilla, and water. That’s right, this ice cream is made with 7 ingredients total.
Last week I made a huge dinner of my Spicy Grilled Chicken, Roasted Broccoli and Kaleslaw for my older son and a couple of his buddies. My goal was to fill ’em with good grub before another big baseball tournament.
After they scarfed down their meal, the boys asked if I had any of that “special ice cream.” They then proceeded to feast on several of my dairy-free ice cream recipes including Banana and Coffee. A gang of three 13 year olds can be tough critics so I was very happy!
Vegan Mint Chip Ice Cream
Ingredients
- ½ cup hemp seeds
- 1 cup water
- 1 can full fat coconut milk
- ⅓ cup honey or agave nectar
- 1 tablespoon vanilla extract
- 1 teaspoon peppermint extract
- ¼ cup chocolate chips
Instructions
- Place hemp seeds and water in a vitamix
- Blend on high for 30 seconds until smooth
- Blend in coconut milk, honey, vanilla, and peppermint
- Blend in chocolate chips until they are in tiny pieces
- Pour into ice cream maker per manufacturer's instructions
- Serve
This dairy-free ice cream recipe is adapted from the book Dairy Free Ice Cream by Kelly Broznya.
I hope you all enjoy this quick and easy, healthy frozen dessert recipe. I love that it meets the needs of of people on gluten-free and dairy-free diets. If you’re wondering how to make ice cream without an ice cream maker, see my quick and easy 2-Ingredient Banana Ice Cream recipe.
Here are some additional dairy-free ice cream recipes:
Elana says
Marie, I haven’t tried that so not sure –I can’t drink soy milk :-)
Marie Callahan says
Elena, I am severely allergic to coconut milk. And can not have nut milk.
Is soy okay?
Kendra says
This sounds wonderful! is it possible to substitute almond milk or flax milk for the coconut milk. I have a coconut allergy!
Elana says
Kendra, I would not do that, but here’s a coconut-free ice cream recipe for you:
https://elanaspantry.com/vanilla-ice-cream/
Enjoy!
Elana
Dori Panagis says
can you use DoTerra Peppermint oil instead of the extract?
Elana says
Dori, I haven’t tried that so not sure :-)
Tina says
I’ve been wanting to try this as everyone of your recipes become fast favorites. It was even better than I thought. So creamy and that homemade consistency I love so much. Thank
you, thank you, thank you for all of the work you put in on these recipes to make them easy and delicious for the rest of us!
Elana says
Tina, thanks for your wonderful comment! We love this ice cream too :-)
Christine says
Can I use hemp hearts n place of hemp seeds?
Elana says
Christine, I think that will work :-)