Keto Chocolate Avocado Ice Cream

This keto chocolate avocado ice cream is a super creamy keto chocolate ice cream 100% dairy-free and made with almond milk and coconut milk.

Plus, one serving of this healthy recipe contains only 2 grams of net carbs! A real summer treat.

How To Make Keto Chocolate Ice Cream

You must use a blender to make this keto avocado chocolate ice cream. This is the key to pulsing all the ingredients together.

Ingredients

However, it is also important that you always add the ingredients in the right order to make it easier for the blade to blend all the ingredients.

The ingredients you need in order of addition are:

• Ripe avocado – add the avocado flesh first. It should be creamy as softened cream cheese or sour cream. Ripe avocado flesh is not firm, hard, or dark in color.
• Erythritol – next, add the sugar-free granulated sweetener. You can also use xylitol or stevia drops in this recipe. Use my keto sweetener converter to check how many Stevia drops you will need to replace erythritol in this recipe.
• Vanilla extract
• Salt
• Unsweetened cocoa powder or cacao powder. Note that cacao powder is a raw version of cocoa that has a stronger dark chocolate flavor. If you love dark chocolate desserts, then cacao powder is a great option.
• Canned coconut milk – you must use coconut milk from the can with a minimum of 15% fat (or heavy cream but at room temperature!). Most of the time, coconut milk and cream are separated in the cans. That is why you must shake the coconut milk can before opening it to make sure the coconut milk is consistent. Also, note that you can’t use coconut beverages in this ice cream recipe. This is a keto ice cream recipe made with an ice cream maker. And an ice cream made in an ice cream maker requires a higher amount of fat, or it would form crystals. That is why you can’t use coconut water which mostly contains water and barely any fat. Another option is to use canned coconut cream. Coconut cream contains around 30% fat, so it would make this keto ice cream fudgier but difficult to blend as well. You may have to add a splash of more almond milk to help the blender combine the ingredients.
• Unsweetened almond milk – you need a combo of coconut milk and almond milk to achieve the right texture. You can’t replace almond milk with more coconut milk, or the batter will be so thick that it won’t blend.
• Coconut oil – the best is to use refined coconut oil to avoid a coconut flavor in your ice cream. You can’t replace coconut with another keto oil. This is the key to making fudgy keto and paleo ice cream!

Churning

You should obtain a thick, shiny chocolate pudding batter after blending all the ice cream ingredients. It shouldn’t be runny or watery.

If it were the case, it would mean that you probably used coconut beverage and not full-fat coconut milk.

To make ice cream, add the chocolate avocado pudding to the ice cream maker bowl.

Churn until the ice cream maker blade stops spinning and the ice cream is frozen.

Freezing

Transfer the chocolate ice cream into an airtight sealed container in the freezer and freeze for at least one hour before serving.

Making Keto Ice Cream With An Ice Cream Maker

Keto ice cream maker recipes are higher in fat than popsicle ice cream recipes.

In fact, the fat in the recipe prevents the ice cream from forming crystals in the ice cream maker machine, resulting in a highly fudgy texture that scoops easily even after hours in the freezer.

That is why you cannot always use a popsicle ice cream recipe in an ice cream maker! You must use a fail-proof ice cream maker recipe for the best texture.

Add the keto ice cream batter to your frozen ice cream maker bowl and churn following the manufacturer’s instructions.

Serving Suggestion

Keto ice cream made with ice cream makers won’t form crystals and scoops very well, even after spending days in the freezer.

However, always bring the container to room temperature for 10 minutes before scooping for the best fudgy texture.

Then, serve this keto chocolate ice cream on top of a chocolate cake, keto brownie recipe, or on its own. The best keto toppings for ice cream are:

• Heavy whipping cream – or whipped coconut cream if you are making paleo ice cream. Also, make sure you buy unsweetened whipped cream to avoid added sugar. Learn more about net carbs in dairy products.
• Chocolate sauce – melt sugar-free dark chocolate (or chocolate chip) with coconut oil and drizzle on top of your ice cream scoops. In fact, melting dark chocolate with coconut oil decreases the hardening point of the chocolate sauce. It means that it will create a chocolate shell instantly when in contact with the ice cream. For paleo ice cream, dark chocolate with more than 85% cocoa can be used.
• Dark chocolate chip – use sugar-free chocolate chips sweetened with stevia, no maltitol! Maltitol is not a keto-friendly sweetener.
• Sugar-free caramel syrup – Many delicious stevia-sweetened keto-friendly ice cream syrups exist to serve with ice cream. The best flavor is caramel syrup or vanilla syrup.

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