Hope you all are enjoying your summer as much as I am! I have been DYING to write this post for a while now! I am absolutely loving this ice cream recipe, and I know that it'll be a hit at your house too. I have always been a fan of Tiger ice cream, and when we went plant based and dairy-free, I wasn't about to accept the fact that I might never taste it again. I have been experimenting for a while now, doing a load of researching and looking for natural food dyes and gut health helpers, as well as ratios of flavours etc. After lots of experimenting, the results are better than I would have expected! The black liquorice ice cream is coloured with food grade, activated charcoal , which is great for gut health, and the orange ice cream is coloured with both sweet potato and a bit of turmeric to add not just colour, but also anti-inflammatory benefits and a little extra hidden goodness! I can now honestly say, this one is a gooder! I will even be bold enough to tell you
I have this wonderful friend whom I {sadly} rarely see unless she is serving me in some way. She's a gem, and I love her to bits. When my health problems came raining in on me just over a year ago, she went out of her way to bring me healthy meals and treats that were in accordance with my new plant based lifestyle. One of my favourites were these little babies, which she altered a bunch from the original recipe, and which I've altered a bit more since, as I've eliminated a few more things from my diet. These are enormous, delicious, filling, jam-packed balls of goodness, that we've lovingly named "K-Balls" in our house, after my friend. They are entirely plant based, nut-free, and could easily be refined sugar-free if you substituted the chocolate chips out for something else. I use dairy-free chocolate chips to keep the recipe plant based. So the pictures kind of make these look like they're just regular little protein balls, but just to bri