Many people who have shifted to a healthy plant-based diet have told me that the hardest food for them to do without is quality ice cream. Now, thanks to Jeff Rogers, you can make your own gourmet frozen desserts without dairy products. And theyll taste better than Ben & Jerrys or Baskin-Robbins ever did!
JOHN ROBBINS, author of Diet for a New America and The Food Revolution
Quite delicious. We enjoyed the taste test and felt honored to be among the first to try this exciting cruelty-free dessert. We are all nut lovers, so the Maple Walnut was a huge hit.
INGRID E. NEWKIRK, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
Sinfully sumptuous, fun to make, and all vegan! Thats one improvement in ice cream thats long overdue.
DR. NEAL BARNARD, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and author of Power Foods for the Brain
An impressive addition to the world of delicious, healthy desserts that adds pleasure to life without artery-clogging cholesterol and saturated fat. Jeffs recipes are simply and sinfully great.
FRANCIS JANES, international restaurateur
Jeff Rogers doesnt just give you a slice, but a whole spoonful of heaven with his amazing frozen dessert recipes. His creations are delicious and unforgettable. Yum!
SABRINA NELSON, WebWitch, VegSource.com
Vegan Ice Cream shrinks the fallacy that a chasm exists between nutritional food and good tasting food. Jeff does an amazing job of proving through his work that we can both enjoy our food and live healthy at the same time!
JERROD SESSLER, cancer survivor and author of Food Chains and Five Percent Chance
Jeff Rogers creates decadent ice creams that match, even surpass, their dairy counterparts. His ice cream recipes are perfect for people who cant digest dairy or just want to live a healthier lifestyle.
TAL RONNEN, chef/owner of Crossroads, Los Angeles, and author of New York Times best-seller The Conscious Cook
Copyright 2004, 2014 by Jeff Rogers
Photographs copyright 2014 by Clare Barboza
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House LLC, a Penguin Random House Company, New York.
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Originally published in the United States in somewhat different form as Vice Cream , by Celestial Arts, Berkeley, in 2004.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Rogers, Jeff, 1961
[Vice cream]
Vegan ice cream : over 90 sinfully delicious dairy-free delights / Jeff Rogers.
pages cm
Revised edition of Vice Cream.
1. Ice cream, ices, etc. 2. Vegan cooking. I. Title.
TX795.R586 2014
641.862dc23
2013040160
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-60774-545-7
eBook ISBN: 978-1-60774-546-4
Food styling by Julie Hopper
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Thanks to Zel and Reuben Allen for all of their help and guidance. As someone who rarely uses recipe books, I appreciate the time and effort you offered to help bring my recipe book to fruition.
Thank you to my mother, Dottie; my brothers, Paul and Sam; and all of my friends and relatives for their support on this project.
A very special thank you goes to Bill Amey, my good friend and cofounder of SoyStache.com, for all of his support, his friendship, and especially his sense of humor. He will be missed.
Thanks to the wonderful staff at Ten Speed Press.
And thank you to all who dedicate their lives to helping others improve theirs, whether through diet or otherwise, as well as to those who strive to inform and educate so that others may make truly informed decisions.
Introduction
In my younger years, I consumed a lot of ice cream and favored the rich flavors of Ben & Jerrys, whose factory happened to be in the neighboring town. Over the years, I experimented with my diet and discovered the effect of foods on my overall health. While moving toward a plant-based diet, I reduced (and later eliminated) my migraine headaches, and my high blood pressure returned to normal. I also had far fewer colds and fewer instances of the flu. Their severity and duration were also much less. After I discovered the benefits of a vegan diet, I found that the vegan ice creams on the market were simply not satisfying; they were not rich enough for me, and I did not enjoy the aftertaste.
Since there are many people who cannot eat dairy and many more who choose not to for ethical, environmental, and health reasons, I wanted to create a wonderful ice cream alternative. For those who were already vegans, this would add a new dessert to their diets. For others, it would allow them to give up the dairy they had been wanting to do without.
I thought that there must be a way of making a rich, flavorful vegan ice cream that would easily satisfy the expectations I had developed when I ate dairy. Having used cashew milk to replace cows milk and cream in other recipes, I realized that was how I should make my homemade vegan ice cream. In 1999, I moved to Seattle, purchased an ice cream maker, and began experimenting with vegan ice creams. The results were as rich as I wanted them to be. A luscious, homemade vegan ice cream was finally born!
I began sharing these ice creams at local EarthSave potlucks and at other EarthSave chapters in cities like Vancouver, Canada; Portland, Oregon; and San Diego, California, as well as at WorldFest in Los Angeles. I soon had many people asking for my recipes or for the ice cream itself. Over time, Ive traveled to many vegan, raw, and health food shows to demonstrate how delicious vegan ice cream can be and how easy it is to make. Sharing this healthful alternative to dairy ice cream has become part of my lifes work. In the years since I first started making vegan ice creams, veganism has become much more popular. Vegan products have become more available in stores and online, plus vegan options at restaurants have greatly increased.
I soon realized that Id rather distribute my recipes widely than produce vegan ice cream commercially, because using organic cashews, the base for many of the recipes, is rather expensive, and allowing people to make vegan ice cream themselves would make it more affordable. I believe that these recipes will make a difference in peoples lives.
I certainly hope they succeed in doing so.
SWEETENERS
I created these recipes to suit my own taste in sweetness, but feel free to adjust them according to your preference. Consider adding sweetener to a recipe gradually, to taste. You are also welcome to mix and match sweeteners to suit your preferences. For additional sweetness, the water in any recipe can be replaced with fresh juice, such as young coconut water or grape juice. As fruits vary in flavor and sweetness, you may need to adjust a recipes sweetener accordingly.