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4-Ingredient No-Churn Vegan Tahini Chocolate Ice Cream (Gluten-Free, Paleo)

August 1, 2018 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 36 Comments

The easiest, creamiest, decadent and healthy dessert recipe you can make! This 4-Ingredient No-Churn Vegan Tahini Chocolate Ice Cream is gluten-free, paleo, top 8 allergy-free, and sugar-free! No dairy, no fuss, and no fancy ice cream makers for this frozen delight!

Our ice cream dreams are realized! Tahini, chocolate, in ice cream form? Yes, yes please! When I say ice cream, I’m not talking the quick, throw it in a blender for a soft serve effect kind of “ice cream”, I’m talking scoopable from the freezer kind of ice cream! Yes, that one appliance (or attachment) I do not have is an ice cream maker. BUT, I know I’m not alone and if you don’t have one either, your life is about to get a whole lot cooooler!Read More

Raw Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free, Paleo)

July 31, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine Leave a Comment

A healthy homemade recipe for the classic frozen dessert! Raw Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches that are also gluten-free, top 8 allergy-free, and paleo! A simple chewy tigernut flour and sunflower butter chocolate chip cookie dough, sandwiching banana nice cream!

Who here loves a good ice cream sandwich? I know I’m raising my hand! Far, far too long since I’d had one too. Summer could not be over before I made some ice cream sandwiches. We did sundaes, fudgsicles, and popsicles this year; I was not about to neglect the ultimate “sandwich”. Now it depends on who you ask, but when “ice cream sandwich” comes to mind you either think of a chocolate chip cookie with ice cream (i.e. the “chipwich“) or, my humble childhood favorite, the soft brownie wafer/bar and fake vanilla ice cream (i.e. these bad-boys wrapped in that glorious white paper and preferably generic store-brand).

Nothing will ever beat those…the best. I can still remember unwrapping those ice cream sandwiches, delicately pealing off the paper and revealing the somewhat gooey ice cream that was exposed on the sides to the paper (and licking the excess ice cream off said paper). I can even still remember the fake soft chocolate bar and fake vanilla ice cream taste…one in a million. That, my friends, was a quality childhood delicacy!

Sadly, those store-brand paper-wrapped bars will never grace my tastebuds again, but at least there’s always the memories. The memories and some gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free, egg-free, and so on, substitutes! I have a mental list in my head of “foods to eat one more time before you die”. I’m talking about all my old childhood favorites when I was able to eat any and every thing! I was talking to my mom about this the other day and she has a few she wouldn’t mind having one more time! This list is super long though, but those ice cream sandwiches are 100% on that list!

One day I’ll have to make a post with that list. And it’s not just “bagel, pasta, pizza”. It is a super specific list, from brand/store to the spread lines of peanut butter on a PBJ. There is no fooling around when it comes to this list! Since this is just a “hypothetical wish-list” right now, we have some REAL ice cream sandwiches to get too! These are super easy, no cooking or baking required, just some freeze time! The cookie bar is made with grain-free tigernut flour, sunflower seed butter, and a nice little dose of mini chocolate chips. The ice cream is that trendy “nice cream” made from bananas. I hate the term “nice cream” and I’m not even fond of bananas, but I wanted to make these with homemade ice cream and the easiest homemade ice cream to make is with frozen bananas. I bit the bullet and sucked up my pride. Good thing, because these turned out to be one TASTY combo!

Raw Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches

Raw Vegan Ice Cream Sandwiches (Gluten-Free, Allergy-Free, Paleo)

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Author: Rebecca Pytell

Recipe type: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Serves: 5

Ingredients

Cookie Bar Dough:
2 Cups Tigernut Flour
⅓ Cup Unsweetened Applesauce
¼ Cup Sunflower Seed Butter
¼ Cup Erythritol
2 TB Mini Chocolate Chips
½ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract
Ice Cream:
3 Small Bananas (cut into chunks, frozen ahead of time)
⅓ Unsweetened Flax Milk (or non-dairy milk of choice)
1 TB Sunflower Seed Butter
1 Tsp Cinnamon
¼ Tsp Pure Madagascar Bourbon Vanilla Extract

Instructions

In a large bowl, combine all the cookie dough ingredients and mix/knead to combine with your hands.
Roll the dough out on a flat surface, either between sheets of parchment paper or Silpats, to about ¼ inch thick.
Cut the dough into 10 rectangles and freeze them on a baking sheet for 1-2 hours.
To make the ice cream, simply blend all ice cream ingredients together in a food processor until thick and creamy.
Remove the cookie dough slices from the freezer and place about 2 tablespoons of the ice cream on 5 of the slices, placing the other 5 on top to make 5 sandwiches total.
Freeze the sandwiches for about 2-3 hours before consuming.

Nutrition Information

Serving size: 1

Drooling, right? It is such a good combo! The sweet tigernut flour with the sunflower butter paired with that cinnamony banana ice cream…bingo! So have no fear, you can still have a fantastic ice cream sandwich option this summer. It may not be fake and wrapped in paper (although I should look for some of that specific paper), but they win in other categories. I’m just glad we can all enjoy them. “Free” for all!

So tell me:

+ Are you a chipwich person or a soft chocolate bar ice cream sandwich kind of person?

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Triple Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream Sundae (Gluten-Free, Vegan)

June 19, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 85 Comments

A devilishly decadent dessert recipe for when you just need chocolate! Triple Chocolate Brownie Chunk Ice Cream Sundaes that are gluten-free, vegan, and allergy-free! Chocolate frozen dessert with soft brownie chunks and a homemade magic chocolate shell!

Summer doesn’t officially start until we break out all the frozen treats and ice creams! When people talk about summer desserts, what’s the first thing that comes to mind? Cold! Frozen! Ice Cream! Besides a big glass of homemade iced tea (or coffee), what better way is there to cool off after a long hot summer day? In my family, ice cream has always been a staple to normal family functioning. A year-round, 365-day, addiction. There are always a dozen ice cream containers taking up precious freezer space, not to mention the tubs of sprinkles, chocolate sauce, and whipped cream always on hand for my family’s nightly ice cream sundae creations!Read More

Freedom Feature: Incredible Foods “perfectly free™”

January 5, 2017 by Rebecca @ Strength and Sunshine 51 Comments

Connecting the celiac disease and food allergy/intolerance community together by sharing our stories to food freedom. From our beginning struggles to striving after a diagnosis, we can all relate and help each other out by sharing what we’ve learned and our unique personal journeys.

You guys are in for a “treat” (pun intended) with today’s Freedom Feature! I was introduced to perfectly free at the GFAF Expo last October. They may just be the most fun frozen “free-from” treat you will ever eat! The brand is run by some fantastic people who care so deeply about food allergies and making sure no one is left out when it comes to a great sweet dessert. I’ll let them do the talking, though, but these frozen bites of creamy goodness will blow your mind! (Good thing they were kind enough to throw a killer giveaway for you all at the end of the feature!)

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