Virpi Mikkonen - N’ice Cream: 80+ Recipes for Healthy Homemade Vegan Ice Creams

If youre reading this book, you probably have wild ice cream dreams. You know the ones: where you eat huge, decadent bowls of creamy sundaes and still feel light and happy afterward. Well, guess what? That dream is now turning into reality.

Does that sound too good to be true? Actually, its just common sense: All you need to do is trade low quality for high qualityand your body will love it! Store-bought ice cream is usually made from highly processed dairy products, refined sugar, and ingredients we dont know how to pronounce, which help ice cream keep for long transit times and during long weeks of sitting in a store freezer. These arent things you want to put in your body! Luckily, you now have this book, and your ice cream world is about to change.

Who are we to make your ice cream fantasies come true? We are two healthy-food lovers from Finland, a north European country with thousands of lakes and forestsand endless reserves of clean, wild food. We live in Helsinki, a city with a lovely spirit and a quickly growing interest in wholesome eating. Finns are crazy about ice cream and eat lots of it. Despite our cold winters, Finland is actually one of the biggest ice cream consumers in the world!

Sure, were healthy-food lovers now, but it wasnt always that way. Both of us used to eat store-bought ice creamand plenty of other store-bought and processed foods. But we felt sick almost every day. Virpi had stomach and skin problems, and Tuulia found out she had celiac disease. Finally, about six years ago, we made the decision to cut out dairy, gluten, and refined sugars from our diets, and shifted to a more wholesome way of eating. We both felt a big difference in our well-being, and we havent looked back.

We are both ice cream maniacs, and we love to indulge in frozen treats. But after our food awakening, we wanted to make sure what we were eating was wholesome and healthy, not like the stuff we used to eat. So we started creating healthy alternatives and were thrilled to find that they tasted even better than the traditional options we were used to. We soon discovered that fruits and different kinds of plant-based milks and nuts make perfect ice creams. Coconut milk makes a fantastic, smooth base; nuts can provide a dreamy creaminess thatll make you swoon; and natural sweeteners like maple syrup and berries are better than any refined sugar. And a major perk? Each recipe we created required only a few simple ingredients and was quick to throw together! We didnt even need an ice cream maker. As soon as we started eating this way, we couldnt imagine going back.

We had so much fun (and ate so many delicious treats!) making our vegan ice creams that we decided to bring our passions together and create a guide for healthy homemade and plant-based ice creams: a book of all our favorite recipes, such as strawberry cheesecake, chocolate sundae, and mint chocolate ice cream sandwiches. We decided to make the collection an e-book that we could share with our followers, and to our great delight it quickly became very successful. Before we knew it, we were making a real book out of itwhich you are now reading.

Why NIce Cream? All these recipes are free of gluten, refined sugar, and dairy, and most of them are raw, too. The recipes in this book are also vegan, which is a kind way to liveit means caring for your body, the environment, and the animals of the world. When you make these recipes, youre being nice. Plain and simple!

This book was made for all ice cream lovers and people who love to relish without guilt and enjoy wholesome food with rich flavors. Within these pages youll find more than eighty recipes, all made from pure and natural ingredients. No weird stuff, just good-quality unprocessed or minimally processed ingredients that make you feel good. With these recipes, you will turn a whole new page in your ice cream life and relearn the meaning of real indulgence.

We hope youll find lots of new ice cream ideas and delicious kitchen adventures within this book. Go ahead and step into the world of nice cream! We wish you a pleasant stay, and hope you will make a lot of new ice cream friends!

Virpi and Tuulia

Without ice cream, there would be darkness and chaos.

DON KARDONG