Fresh Strawberry Ice Cream :: Refined Sugar Free, Egg Free, With Dairy Free Option

Summer is (finally!) here, and for our family that means more access to fresh cream from a quality source for ice cream!

I give our guts a bit of a dairy break come fall, and in the deep of winter our raw milk share decreases so we get even more of a break. It is such a great practice for everyone to rotate food around with the seasons! Come May we are just craving that nutrient dense dairy from cows grazing on fresh spring grasses all day! The taste difference will blow you away if you have never tried! If you can tolerate dairy, I encourage you to go to your local farmers markets and ask around for quality dairy sources! THIS is also a good website to look for local raw dairy in your area.

So let’s talk ice cream! In the summer I make ice cream every couple weeks so we can enjoy a bowl as a family on Saturday nights! I change up the flavors each time, and come the end of June, our ice cream gets a fresh strawberry make-over! We go picking every year and bring home quite a haul. This year I made up a double batch early as my daughter had requested it for her birthday party this weekend.

I spent a *lot* of time over the course of last summer trying to figure out how to make ice cream without egg yolks. Yolks are an amazing nutrient dense food, but I have a nephew with a severe egg allergy, and it is so important to me that when he is here he gets to enjoy the same food as everyone else – especially at a birthday party! The fat in the yolks makes ice cream super thick and creamy. I tried some other methods to achieve this same texture and tapioca starch won out the test. This method makes ice cream every bit as fluffy, rich, and creamy as ice cream with yolks! And if you can tolerate eggs, by all means get those in there! I left some notes in the ingredients on how many to use.

And a note for my dairy free friends! Using plain, whole coconut milk in equal parts as the cream works just as well!

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Tips:

• Change the fruit to the season! We’ll be making blueberry ice cream this July, peach and cherry ice cream this August, and raspberry ice cream at the end of summer!
• I have just a simple ice cream maker, and it works great! No need for something fancy, *although* I have my eyes on THIS larger, 2 quart ice cream maker!
• I recommend THIS brand of coconut milk as it has no added ingredients and is in a BPA free container.