dairy, nut and soya free 'ice cream' recipe anyone?

[sphil]

Worthenshaws are rebranding their Freedom frozen dessert and it'll be off the shelves for six months, Sainsburys tell me - aaaaargh! Dh has just been to the health food shop and bought a coconut nut milk alternative which looks delicious but is £4.95 for a small tub. You can buy an ice cream maker on Amazon for £19.95 atm, so I am seriously considering making my own, but can't find a recipe anywhere. Any ideas?

Hello. Have you thought thought of adapting a vegan ice cream recipe and using coconut milk or oat milk instead?

Here are some coconut milk recipes
www.yummly.com/recipes/vegan-ice-cream-coconut-milk

Any of these any use? Not read them for soya, but some look to be nut free.

sorbet?
Can you find dairy and soya free chocolate?

I quite like lemon and orange, but can totally see it isn't a real substitute for ice cream.

A friend gave me a vegan ice cream recipe book when DS was diagnosed with a dairy allergy. I'll dig it out in a bit ...

Thanks so much - these recipes look great. I love the look of some of the more unusual ones, but DS2 (who is autistic as well as allergic) just wants a plain old vanilla or failing that, a mango sorbet! I think it may be a case of experimenting a bit...

Basically you make a vanilla egg custard but with oat milk or some other creamy substance instead of mil and churn in an ice cream maker. It really is that simple.

mil = milk

Birds custard powder (the "add milk" one) is milk and egg free, and tastes of vanilla, I make it up with wysoy in the ice cream maker (Aldi are selling them for £19.99 this week), it makes a quite acceptable ice cream.

Just noticed the soya, you could use nutramigen etc. instead of wysoy, I find formula powder mixes nicely with the custard powder and gets less lumpy than liquid milks.

How about something more sorbet-based? Use bananas as a base, because those would give a nice texture. If you froze them, and blitzed them up with soft fruits, you'd get a soft-set sorbet sort of thing. And if there was a soya free yoghurt that you use and trust, you could blitz that in too, to give a creamier texture.

The book I've got is called 'The Vegan Scoop' by Wheeler Del Torro. Most of the recipes include soy milk and soy creamer but there is a note at the front explaining that the also make ice cream using other milk substitutes like coconut and rice milk. I wonder if oatly cream would work instead of the soy creamer? I could scan you a recipe or two if you wanted to take a look?

Forgot to mention that Ds is also gluten-free so no oats sadly. He drinks rice milk - I need to see if there's a rice cream I coul use too as I think milk will be too thin on its own. If I find one, I would love to see a recipe Therein - thanks

Similar to what SDT suggested, I used to make a df ice cream with frozen chunks of banana and mango, plus milk of choice. Came from a g- and df recipe book. You just whizz it up like a smoothie and it comes out the texture of a McD's milkshake but without the coating of grease on your palette and the rank aftertaste.
And there's loads of other frozen soft fruits to choose from these days too.

Hello
I make the same sort of ice cream for DC that Shotgun mentions. Frozen blueberries and milk of choice, or custard, or yogurt and something to sweeten it. I use sugar but you could use honey.

Blitz it in a blender as quickly as you can and hey presto you have soft scoop icecream. YUM!!!

I tried the frozen bananas a while ago and found that it went really hard and icy in the freezer. I didn't mix it with milk though, so that might make a difference. I like the idea of getting fruit in. Did you (mum@39 and shotgun) use an icecream maker or just a blender and then freeze? ( My blender is broken, so woukd have to use food processor).

Mine wasn't intended for the freezer - more like a thick, ice-creamy smoothie to be eaten straight away. I just blended it. I don't think I like the idea of anything with banana in it hanging around - it goes brown so quickly < boak >!

Sorry I used a food processor not a blender.

Ah, now thats interesting. It was always called Freedom, but the company was Worthenshaws. When I googled, it said that the company had decided to change its name to Kirsty's, after the founder, because market research had shown that Worthenshaws wasn't memorable. Does your pot say ' Kirsty's'? If so, maybe they've brought it out already. It wouldn't surprise me if it takes six months to get out to the Somerset sticks though...

It is quite watery, but the great thing about it for Ds2 is that it uses fruit sugar - he responds to this much better than to cane sugar, which seems to exacerbate his autistic traits. I do think it would be better to make my own - it's just so much more time-consuming, as I already make most of his food from scratch.

spill, hello I use a Ninja which I saw on QVC (sad I know) and used that to make icecream. If you click on the link, there is a video presentation that you can watch that shows the annoying lady making some icecream with berries. They also offer a no quibble 30 day money back guarantee so you could get one if you fancy it, try it for a couple of weeks and send it back if you're not happy. They'll refund the cost of the item but not the P&P but it's a good way to try before you buy.

As Shotgun says, the stuff I've made is good to eat straight away. I did try to freeze some but it freezes too hard if that makes sense. It's so easy to make that it's not really a problem to make a fresh batch whenever you need it.

Also, you could get some Innocent Fruit Tubes, which are just fruit puree's and stick those in the freezer as an alternative to ice pops.

I bet if you froze some chocolate Kara in an ice cube tray and then blitz that , that would taste really good. I am dairy intolerant and use the kara regular stuff and am really looking forward to trying the choc version.

I hope this helps (even though I've outed myself as a saddo buying things from QVC )

so many ideas - thank you all. DS2 will want something frozen I think - to him its not 'right' unless it comes from the freezer. He won't eat the Freedom dessert if it's gone slushy.