Ok, so I don't know about all the other newbie vegans, but I personally find that ice cream is the hardest thing to replicate, and the thing I miss the most since going vegan. I mean tons of companys try, but I personally just don't like most of the products.
At all times there are like 10 pints of vegan ice cream in my freezer, most of which have two bites out of them, and then I keep them out of guilt for how expensive they were until they get freezer burn so bad I finally feel ok throwing them out. Sigh.
Now, to be fair, some vegan ice cream is great. Marry Me bars are amazing, Tofutti Wild Berry is like the Holy Grail, but the problem is I have trouble finding them in stores. So what is a vegan ice cream lover to do?
Buy mail order ice cream. You're probably saying "Mail order ice cream? Whaaaaaaaaaaat??" but I swear, it's real. A kosher company called Oh nuts! http://www.ohnuts.com/ sells Klein's amazing Vegan ice cream. I had to try this, obviously, so I placed an order for my two non-veg faves, cookies and cream and mint chocolate chip.
The ice cream arrived a few days later in a neat box of dry ice. The ice cream wasn't the slightest bit melty, in fact it was frozen solid, and I had to thaw it out just a little before I could get a spoon in it!
The ice cream itself is very good, aside from Tofutti Wild Berry, which is indistingishable from regualr ice cream, this is the best vegan ice cream I have ever had. The cookies and cream is a very light ice cream and the flavor is slightly reminiscent of marshmallows. The mint is quite good, but I wish it was just a pinch mintier. (not to nitpick though, this is still BY FAR the best vegan mint chip I have encountered!)
Of course just an ice cream review isn't much of a blog post, so I decided to make milkshakes and show you my absolute favorite milkshake recipe.
You will need:
Klein's cookies and cream ice cream
Hershey's Syrup
Peanut Butter
Almond Milk
Whizzer's chocolate beans (any vegan M&M style candy will do)
Put a couple of scoops of ice cream, a tbs or two of PB, a splash of almond milk and a squirt of the syrup in a blender with about a quarter of bag of chocolate beans. If your blender has a milkshake button, use it! :) When your shake reaches optimal thickness to your liking, pour it into a cup and enjoy.
I meant to show you what it looked like as a finished product, but it was so yummy I drank it before I remembered. So here is my empty glass, LOL!
If that isn't a testament to how yummy this was, I don't know what is, haha! Happy eating! :)
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