Enjoy learning how to make homemade vegan ice cream with this easy recipe. It requires only 3 ingredients, a few minutes of your time and is no-churn!

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I, like most children, LOVED ice cream growing up. In fact, my whole family enjoyed ice cream most nights of the week.

To this day, I still love a hefty scoop of vegan ice cream. Unfortunately, non-dairy ice cream is harder to come by, especially here in Asia.

That’s why I love to make my own homemade vegan ice cream!

There are so many ways you can make vegan ice cream at home. You can make healthier versions like my Vegan Banana Ice Cream Sandwiches or Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Banana Ice Cream Blizzards.

Or if you’re feeling extra decadent you can make my amazing Vegan Ice Cream Cake with Oreo Crust or this 3 ingredient Vegan Ice Cream Recipe I’m sharing with you today!

How to Make Homemade Ice Cream

There are a few different methods for making ice cream at home. I’m sure many of you as a kid used the bag and salt method at some point. Or, if you have the space and budget, you can always buy an ice cream maker and churn your own ice cream at home.

However, there are also a couple no-churn methods for making ice cream at home.

• For a healthy, whole food version, you can always make banana ice cream or fruit sorbet by just processing frozen fruit in a food processor or high speed blender until smooth and creamy.
• For a richer, more authentic ice cream, you can use the method I’m sharing with you today. For this version you’ll be folding together vegan sweetened condensed milk, vanilla extract and whipped coconut cream to create a decadent, scoop-able vegan ice cream!

Ingredients You’ll Need for Homemade Vegan Ice Cream

This easy, 3 ingredient vegan ice cream recipe results in vanilla flavored ice cream. For the basic vegan vanilla ice cream base, all you need are the following ingredients:

• Vegan sweetened condensed milk
• Vanilla extract (the real stuff that contains alcohol!)
• Coconut cream (not milk!). I use the Kara brand of coconut cream. It works great!

Vegan Ice Cream Mix-In Ideas

Unless its really really good gelato, (I’m thinking of you Sottozero Factory in Malta!), then my vegan ice cream has to have mix-ins.

Below I’ll share some ideas for things you can add to your vegan ice cream base to make it more exciting and textured.

Sometimes just one mix-in is all you need, but other times a combination of mix-ins is the winning ticket! You can always think of your favorite store-bought ice cream and try to create a version of that as well.

Mix-In Ideas for Vegan Ice Cream

• Vegan cookie dough
• Broken up Oreos (or any homemade cookies you have on hand!)
• Broken up dairy-free Reese’s cups with peanut butter swirl
• Vegan caramel sauce
• Brownie pieces and chocolate fudge sauce
• Fresh fruit (raspberries, cherries, strawberries, etc.)
• Chopped up candy bars
• Chopped up nuts (toasted would be amazing)
• Vegan marshmallow pieces and nuts for a rocky road flavor
• Crumbled up cake pieces

How to Make Vegan Ice Cream Without a Machine

If you’re trying to make homemade vegan ice cream without a machine, you need to make sure you use vanilla extract that contains alcohol. Adding alcohol to the base of this ice cream raises it’s freezing point, allowing the final produce to be non-icy, scoop-able, creamy vegan ice cream!

Step 1: Combine condensed milk and vanillaTo start you’ll need to whisk together the vegan sweetened condensed milk and the vanilla extract.

Step 2: Make coconut whipped creamIn a separate bowl using a hand mixer or in the bowl of a stand mixer, whip the chilled coconut cream until peaks form.

Step 3: Combine the condensed milk and coconut whipped creamNext you’ll loosely mix in about a cup of the whipped coconut cream to the vegan sweetened condensed milk mixture to loosen it up. Then pour the loosened condensed milk mixture into the bowl with the remaining whipped coconut cream and fold everything together until a semi-homogenous mixture forms.

Pro Tip: If you over-whip your coconut cream (like I’ve done a couple times!) it will be a lot stiffer and harder to fold evenly into the sweetened condensed milk mixture. Don’t worry. You can still use it to make this vegan ice cream recipe and the final result will still be delicious! You just won’t have straight-out-of-the-freezer-scoop-able ice cream and the sweetened condensed milk mixture will melt quicker than the cream mixture.

Video Instructions

Video instructions for how to make vegan ice cream are in the recipe card below.

Just to note, unlike in the video, you’ll want your base to be as smooth as possible before you freeze it.

Pro Tip: You’ll also see that I immediately stir in the mix-ins before freezing the vegan ice cream base. However, I recommend freezing the ice cream base for about 2 hours before stirring in the mix-ins. This keeps heavier mix-ins from sinking to the bottom of the ice cream. It’s not necessary, but just a tip!

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Please let me know if you give this vegan ice cream recipe a try! I’d love to know how it works out for you and what mix-ins you include.

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