My daughter Louisa (14) and I have been sugar-free for a year and a half now. And guess what I miss most? Yep, ice cream! I’ve tried the artificially sweetened (or should I say “poisoned”?) ice creams, and although I’m thrilled to have ice cream in most any form, it comes at a high price: usually pain—in the form of earaches, digestive ouches, etc. It feels pretty obvious to my body that Splenda, and other sugar substitutes aren’t healthy.
So, in the quest for healthy ice cream, here’s what we came up with. This dessert is fresh, healthy, sugar-free and yum!
Instead of Ice Cream
4 cups plain unsweetened yogurt
1 cup milk (I like raw milk)
1-2 cups fresh or frozen fruit, optional
stevia to taste (here’s the brand I like best)
Mix ingredients together. If adding firm fruit like mangoes or peaches, use a blender to fully mix it in. Reserve some small pieces of fruit to add near the end of freezing if you want it chunky. If using berries, just pour them in, and they will get mashed in during the churning process.
Now taste your mixture and add liquid stevia until it tastes sweet. Pour into a 2 quart ice cream freezer and churn until frozen (about 25 minutes). Eat right away or scoop into a plastic container to store in the freezer. Take it out about 10 minutes before serving so it can soften and be scooped.
The “ice cream” in the photo was made by adding 1/2 of a 16 oz. package of frozen raspberries to the yogurt-milk-stevia mixture. The churning mashed it all up and made it a pretty pink color! I reserved the other half of the bag of raspberries to sprinkle on top. We also topped it with salted peanuts and the salty/sweet combination was tasty!
Delicious, wonderful, healthy, low calorie frozen yogurt! Yay!
Sugar-free Louisa thinks it's great!
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I'd sure love to hear your comment!
this is a wonderful idea. I'm just now making the transition to going sugar free and experimenting with Stevia. No artificial sweeteners here!
I use about 1/4 tsp. liquid stevia. It really works best to put some in, then taste it, then put some more in. If you use too much stevia, it is not good. It really only takes drops, not spoonfuls!
You can also mix in other natural sweeteners: a little raw honey, xylitol, date sugar, or sweet fruit like grapes.
Looks great!
How many drops of stevia did you use? I may use way too much stevia unless I have a ballpark figure to work with !