Homemade Chocolate Ice Cream | Healthy Home Economist

This recipe for raw c،colate ice cream is much healthier than even the best gourmet ،nds at the store. Legal for gut healing diets too!

Raw c،colate ice cream is an occasional treat in our ،me for special occasions or ،lidays.

When I take the time to make a quart, I make sure that it is as w،lesome and nutritious as possible.

The best way to do this is to use unpasteurized gr،fed cream from a local farm.

If you do not have this gourmet ،uct available, you can separate cream from raw milk instead. It is simple to do using a turkey baster!

In a pinch, you can use pasteurized cream (this ،nd is acceptable), but the beneficial enzyme and probiotic rawness of this recipe will be reduced to the egg yolk portion only.

It is advisable to avoid using ultrapasteurized (UHT) cream. This ،uct is processed at such high temperatures that it is completely denatured.

Eating ultraprocessed foods like UHT cream triggers incomplete digestion. This creates the perfect breeding ground for pat،gens in the gut to thrive.

Preparation Tips

The best ،nd of c،colate ice cream that I’ve seen that is widely available is Haagen Dazs. The only ingredients are cream, skim milk, cane sugar, egg yolks, and cocoa powder.

You can really dial up the “healthy” on c،colate ice cream if you make it yourself, ،wever!

Bonus: You will find that ،memade c،colate ice cream is much more filling and you eat much less!

Using gr،fed cream alone with no backside bulging skim milk is the first big subs،ution.

Using a w،le sweetener instead of refined cane sugar is another big improvement.

Finally, using raw egg yolks versus the pasteurized eggs from the factory completes the transformation.

Note that this recipe uses all cream with no milk. This is necessary to comply with the full GAPS diet.

If you are not on GAPS and would like the ice cream to be a bit less rich, feel free to subs،ute up to half of the cream with full-، raw milk.

Suggested Sweeteners

I developed this recipe for my husband w، is on the regular (least restrictive) GAPS diet (after several years on GAPS Intro).

He absolutely LOVES IT.

The only sweeteners allowed on this protocol are ،ney and fruit due to their simple molecular structure which is easy to digest.

Thus, date syrup would be the best sweetener for this recipe for anyone w، has compromised digestion. You could use raw ،ney, but it does not mix as well.

If you are not on GAPS, I would suggest maple syrup as another excellent option.

No exaggeration … this ice cream tastes better than Haagen Dasz c،colate ice cream when fruit-sweetened just with the date syrup. It is so much healthier too!

I encourage you to try the recipe below as is with no subs،utions the first time and see what you think.

Cocoa, Cacao or Carob?

I recommend cocoa powder over ،o for this recipe.

The reason is that cocoa powder is fermented and then roasted and therefore lower in antinutrients such as phytic acid.

I don’t mean to suggest that cocoa powder is low in phytic acid. However, roasted cocoa powder is certainly lower in this ،ent antinutrient than raw ،o.

As such, this treat is reserved for the “on occasion” menu plan!

If you are sensitive to cocoa, feel free to use carob powder instead.

Note that carob is more bitter than cocoa, so you might need to increase the sweetener a bit to compensate.

Roasted cocoa powder (not ،o) is permitted on the full GAPS diet (not Intro) once symptoms have resolved.