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This Caramel Peanut Vegan Ice Cream Cake comes from the cookbook, N’ice Cream: 80 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Vegan Ice Creams. It’s so decadent!
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Do you dream of ice cream? Have you ever wished it was healthy so you don’t have to feel guilty about eating it?
Friends, I have such a great post for you today! I am so excited to bring you a full review of the cookbook, N’ice Cream – 80 Recipes for Healthy Homemade Vegan Ice Creams by Virpi Mikkonen and Tuulia Talvio.
I’m even giving you their recipe for Caramel Peanut Vegan Ice Cream Cake that you are going to LOVE!
We make nice cream quite often. The kids ask for it almost daily. I’ve got two nice cream recipes on the blog so far: my Chocolate Nice Cream Breakfast Parfaits are made with a banana base and my Mint Cream Icebox Dessert is made with a coconut milk base. While bananas and coconut milk are certainly the most popular choices for a n’ice cream base, other plant milks and even yogurts can be used as well.
This cookbook is authored by Virpi Mikkonen and Tuulia Talvio.
Virpi is a food blogger, food writer and certified health coach. Her blog, Vanelja, has won a Saveur Blog Award for Best Designed Blog. It’s gorgeous – go check it out!
Tuulia is a food blogger, recipe creator and certified yoga instructor. You can check out her blog at Tuulia.co – also beautiful!
In their words, “this book was made for all ice cream lovers and people who love to relish without guilt and enjoy wholesome food with rich flavors.” I’m pretty sure if you are reading my blog, you are one of these people.
ALL of the recipes in this book are dairy-free, gluten-free and refined sugar-free. Most of them are also raw. The majority of them can be made without an ice cream maker, which was great news for me because I don’t own one.
In addition to the 6 recipe chapters, you’ll also find a chapter dedicated to Vegan Ice Cream Pantry Staples and How to Make Ice Cream at Home (includes a list of the tools you’ll need and methods for making ice cream in an ice cream maker, a blender, in ice cube trays, and also in ice pop molds).
Let’s take a closer look at the recipe chapters:
Creamy Ice Creams – Raspberry White Chocolate Ice Cream; Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream; Rum and Raisin Ice Cream
Instant Ice Creams – Mocha Sundae; Cinnamon Bun Ice Cream; Mango Passionfruit Tropical Delight
Ice Pops and Sorbets – Apple-Avocado Mint Pops; Strawberry-Basil Creamsicles; Pomegranate-Watermelon Ice Pops
Milkshakes – Super-Simple Strawberry Milkshake; Minty Triple-Chocolate Milkshake; Salted Caramel Milkshake
Ice Cream Cakes and Cookies – Cherry Ice Cream Cake; Raw Chocolate Ice Cream Cookies; Berry Cookie Crumble Ice Cream Cups; (and the Caramel Peanut Vegan Ice Cream Cake I’m sharing with you below)
Additions and Toppings – Caramel Sauce; Chocolate Cake Crumble; Berry Sauce; Waffle Ice Cream Cones and Cups
The recipe titles alone are enough to get you drooling, but wait until you see the pictures. The photography in this book is just stunning! I have never seen ice cream look so gorgeous.
But, even as creative and gorgeous as all of the recipes are – they are also simple to follow and easy to make. I kid you not, this N’ice Cream Cookbook has become one of my kids’ favorite books to “read.” They are constantly picking out what they want me to make next and oohing and aahing at all of the mouthwatering photos.
Speaking of my kids, they inhaled this Caramel Peanut Vegan Ice Cream Cake. It tastes like a frozen snickers bar!
I could eat the caramel filling with a spoon (and I actually did because I had a little leftover!).
The chocolate sauce is a bit like Magic Shell (if you remember that from your childhood – maybe they still make it, I have no clue). It goes on warm and liquid and hardens up as it hits the cold ice cream.
The combo of this peanut butter vegan ice cream, caramel filling and chocolate sauce – pure decadence!
I hope you love this recipe as much as we do! If you tried it, please use the star rating system in the recipe card and leave a comment with your feedback. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
For even more easy family recipes, be sure to check out my cookbook, The Meatless Monday Family Cookbook!
Caramel Peanut Vegan Ice Cream Cake
Ingredients
Ice cream:
- 14 oz (400-ml) can full-fat coconut milk (refrigerated overnight)
- 3 ripe bananas
- ½ cup (120 ml) peanut butter
- 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
- Handful of raw peanuts
- Pinch of sea salt
Caramel Topping:
- ½ cup (120 ml) peanut butter
- 10 fresh dates , pitted
- 4 tbsp extra virgin coconut oil
- ⅔ cup (160 ml) full-fat coconut milk
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- Pinch sea salt
Extras
- Chocolate sauce frosting (pg. 182 in N’Ice Cream), or use your favorite
- Crushed hazelnuts , for garnish
Instructions
- Line a 3.5 x 7.5-inch (9 x 19-cm) loaf pan with parchment paper. Set aside.
- Open the coconut milk can and scoop the thick white cream into a blender. Add the bananas, peanut butter, and vanilla and blend until smooth.
- Pour the ice cream mixture into the prepared loaf pan.
- In a small bowl, mix the peanuts with the salt, scatter the mixture on top of the ice cream, and set aside.
- Combine all the caramel filling ingredients in a blender and blend until smooth, adding more water if needed to achieve the consistency of a smooth caramel sauce.
- Pour about half the caramel filling over the ice cream. Reserve the remaining caramel filling. Place the pan into a freezer for about 3 hours, or until solid.
- Remove the ice cream cake from the pan and place it onto a serving plate.
- Pour the reserved caramel filling on top, then pour the chocolate frosting over the caramel sauce. Sprinkle with some crushed hazelnuts. Let the cake thaw slightly (this will make it easier to cut), serve, and enjoy!
Notes
Nutrition
Nutrition values are calculated using online calculators and are estimates only. Please verify using your own data.
Donna
I NEED to get this cookbook! We are totally nice cream obsessed, and these variations sound amazing!!
Jenn S.
Yes, you do NEED it! A summer necessity! Or all year round! 🙂
Corrine
I’ve had vegan ice cream but I haven’t made it myself. I like vanilla based flavors most!
Lydia Claire
I haven’t yet made nice cream but I really want to!
Jenn S.
You’ll love it, Lydia!
paige c
you wouldn’t be able to put nuts or dates in it 🙁 but for regular frozen fruit soft serve it is great!
Jenn S.
Gotcha! Thanks for filling me in!
Zahra Husein
I love to make mocha ice cream ?
Jenn S.
That seems to be a theme among my readers. 🙂 Good taste! Thanks, Zahra!
Melissa
This looks so good and I love that there’s no dairy or refined sugar in it!
Jenn S.
Yes, the fact that it’s made with all healthy ingredients (like ALL the recipes in the book) is a icing on the cake. 😉
Mel
This book could have been written for me. There is rarely a day that goes by that I don’t have nice-cream in some form or another. My nice-creams are never as decadent as this Snickers like cake though…it looks awesome!
Jenn S.
We make it all the time too and ours are pretty simple. Well, this was simple too, but it looks fancy! They definitely has a lot of options for quick ones you can eat right away!
Linda
That looks amazing! What a great idea for a book. I’d need a drool towel while looking through it-haha!
Jenn S.
HaHa! Seriously! That’s the truth! 🙂
paige c
We have a yo-nana that we use to make fruit ‘ice cream’ that is pretty good!
Jenn S.
Does that work better than a food processor? I’ve never tried one.
paige c
we love it! its super simple, you just let your frozen fruit thaw for 5 min then put in it in the yo nana and turn it on! We don’t own a food processor and are low on space and the yo-nana is small so it is perfect for us
Jenn S.
Thanks, Paige. Can you put other ingredients in it too? Or just the fruit? Like for example, would you be able to make this ice cream cake by just using the Yonanas machine? If so, that’s pretty cool! A great space saver for those that don’t have a ton of room in the kitchen.
Jess
I wish it wasn’t 845pm, otherwise I’d make some right now.
LOOKS AMAZING!
Jenn S.
Stick your coconut milk in the fridge right now so you can make it in the morning! 🙂
jacquie
i have never made nice cream. One of my biggest if not the biggest hold up of me moving from being a vegetarian to being a vegan is the thought of giving up ice cream. this book may give me a way to do that especially since it doesn’t require an ice cream maker.
Jenn S.
I totally understand that feeling, Jacquie. You definitely need to try it! I think you will love it! Try a simple one to start – 1 or 2 frozen banana slices, 1-2 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter), 1 -2 tbsp cocoa powder. Put in food processor and puree until smooth. Your food processor might seem angry at first, but keep going. It really only take a few minutes. You’ll have to scrape down the sides a few times. It’s soooo good! My kids beg for it!
jacquie
thanks so much for your kind suggestion. Unfortunately I don’t have a food processor either. Are there other possibilities for those who have a minimum of kitchen equipment?
Jenn S.
Do you have a high speed blender? That would work also.
jacquie
no I don’t. i really don’t have much in terms of kitchen equipment.
Jenn S.
Hmmm, I’m not sure then. I don’t know of any other way. 🙁
Casey the College Celiac
I love blueberry nice cream! So sweet and fresh!
Jenn S.
So refreshing!
Jeffrey
I’ve never made my own ice cream but its on my culinary bucket list! My favorite flavor of ice cream lately has espresso/mocha flavor paired with chocolate.
Jenn S.
I LOVE that you have a culinary bucket list! I need to make one of those! And I always go for the espresso/mocha flavors too! Yum!
Heather S
I’ve made homemade coconut ice cream before…..soooo GOOD 🙂
Jenn S.
Yes, so good!!
Jacqui Stivers
looks so delicious!
Jenn S.
Thanks, Jacqui!