Vegan Coffee Ice Cream

Scoops of coffee ice cream in a black bowl.

5 from 8 votes

This vegan coffee ice cream is so good no one would ever guess it is vegan. Rich and creamy and loaded with coffee flavor.

Prep Time1

Total Time1

Course: Dessert

Cuisine: American

Diet: Vegan

Servings:

Calories: 409kcal

Author: Alison Andrews

Ingredients

Homemade Cashew Milk

⅔ cup Raw Cashews (100g) soaked in hot water for 1 hour
¾ cup + 2 Tablespoons Water (210ml)

Ice Cream:

1 ½ cups Homemade Cashew Milk (360ml)
1 ½ cups Coconut Milk (360ml) Canned, Full Fat, Unsweetened
1 cup White Granulated Sugar (200g)
¼ cup Water (60ml)
¾ cup Cacao Butter (100g) Chopped
½ cup Coconut Oil (109g)
¼ cup Instant Coffee Powder (14g)
1 Tablespoon Cocoa Powder
⅓ cup Coconut Sugar (50g)
1 teaspoon Salt

Instructions

At least the day before you want to make ice cream, make sure the bowl for your ice cream machine is placed into the freezer so that’s it’s ready to go the next day.
Prepare your homemade cashew milk. Add the cashews to a bowl and then pour over boiling water and let it sit for 1 hour. Then drain the cashews and add them to the blender jug along with ¾ cup + 2 Tablespoons fresh cold water and blend very well until completely blended in. You should not have to strain this milk at all. It should be totally smooth. Use all of this milk in your ice cream.*
Add the homemade cashew milk to a big bowl along with the coconut milk and set aside.
Then get all your other ingredients ready before proceeding.
Add white granulated sugar to a saucepan along with the quarter cup of water. Stir constantly until the sugar is melted. You’ll know it’s melted when the wooden spoon is no longer making a scratching sound along the bottom of the saucepan.
Add cacao butter, coconut oil, instant coffee powder, cocoa powder, coconut sugar and salt and whisk in until everything is melted together.
Pour this out into the bowl with the cashew milk and coconut cream.
Use an immersion blender to blend everything together. If you don’t have an immersion blender, then transfer everything to your blender jug and blend it and then return it to the bowl.
Take the whole bowl and place it into the freezer for 15-20 minutes so that the mixture gets chilled. When the mixture is chilled you might find that the mixture has started to harden along the sides, just stir it up well again and then pour it into the ice cream machine.
Churn the ice cream according to the manufacturer directions until you reach a soft serve consistency. Depending on the ice cream machine you have this could be anything from 25-45 minutes.
When it’s reached soft serve consistency, pour it out into a loaf pan and smooth down with the back of a spoon, cover and place into the freezer to set completely.
When it’s set, scoop and enjoy.

Notes

If your batch of cashew milk makes slightly more or slightly less than 1 and ½ cups (360ml), don’t worry about it. It should be close, and if so, then just use it all in the ice cream. The difference would come about from the amount of water your cashews absorbed while soaking and if it’s a little more or less, you may end up with a little more or less volume. If it was a fairly big difference (like ⅓ cup short) then you could use a little extra coconut milk to compensate. Even if you do have to use a little extra coconut milk to compensate then don't worry, mixed with the cashew milk it will still be a very neutral base for this ice cream.
Prep time excludes time the spent soaking the cashews and the time spent chilling the mixture or for the ice cream to set completely in the freezer. It is for the hands on time, including churning.
Recipe adapted from the book Artisan Ice Cream.

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