Healthy Coconut Ice

If you made my one-step Coconut Butter from final week, then this Healthy Coconut Ice might be a cinch. Actually even if you happen to didn’t make it, it can nonetheless be a cinch. I believe my recipes have develop into progressively less complicated and presumably much more pink as my being pregnant has gone on. Any coincidence? Possibly..

Back to the ice. Coconut Ice is a kind of depraved little treats you little question had as a baby, however in all probability fell off the menu when you reached maturity. The conventional recipe as per my trusty Edmonds Cook Book (first printed in New Zealand in 1955, and a staple in most Kiwi households), combines icing sugar, cow’s milk, butter, salt, coconut and pink meals colouring.

Watch How to Make Healthy Coconut Ice

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My model as an alternative swaps out the icing sugar, dairy, and synthetic colouring for pure natural coconut milk, pure vanilla extract, himalayan sea salt, a touch of unrefined low GI coconut nectar or sugar and grated beetroot or berries for colouring.

Vanilla Ice Ice Baby

Seeing as we spoke about the advantages of coconut final week (you may examine that here), this week I’m tackling vanilla for you. Segway to 1989 earlier than studying on…

Pure and pure vanilla extract incorporates quite a few antioxidants, together with vanillic acid and vanillin. As you little question know, antioxidants shield our our bodies from injury from the growing variety of dangerous free radicals and toxins in our surroundings. Make positive you supply an natural pretty traded pure vanilla. This ensures not solely optimum style-issue, but additionally that the growers obtain a good wage from its manufacturing. After travelling via quite a few nations I do know all too properly how little a few of these communities reside on – in lots of instances $1 per day is the usual earnings, when even only one meal out may cost $3.

My absolute favorite model of vanilla is Heilala, primarily based right here in New Zealand and sourcing their vanilla from the gorgeous island of Tonga. The firm observe natural rising ideas, rising in natural virgin soil on pure coconut husk frames, with the vanilla hand pollinated and dried within the solar. Their Tonga plantation supplies employment for the native village, and has enabled working water, housing and childhood training amenities. Plus their vanilla powder is without doubt one of the solely I’ve discovered that doesn’t comprise a bunch of added sugar and preservatives – it’s simply 100% pure floor vanilla bean.

I made my Coconut Ice solely very mildly candy, so do style as you go and be happy so as to add a bit extra coconut nectar if you happen to like (*don’t add an excessive amount of, particularly if you happen to’re utilizing coconut sugar, as it can begin to make it go a bit brown). In truth I checked the Edmonds recipe and my model makes use of solely 8% of the sugar of the unique! And don’t fear if the beetroot or berries in your pink layer are not fully blended. I believe it seems fairly rustic with a couple of blood-stained blotches and smears working down the white layer as you slice. Finally, be happy so as to add kind of of your pink-colored ingredient to vary the pinkness as you want (are you a pale ballet pink form of man/gal, or extra of a vivid fuschia 80’s youngster?).

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Ingredients

5
c
desiccated coconut
round 350g
1/3
cup
coconut cream
18% fats
2
tsp
vanilla extract
4
tbsp
coconut sugar
or extra to your style
pinch
sea salt
3
tbsp
grated beetroot
OR 6 tbsp goji berries OR 6 tbsp raspberries OR 1 tbsp beetroot powder
Desiccated coconut for sprinkling

Instructions

Blend 4 cups of desiccated coconut in a meals processor till a silky easy butter types (save the final cup so as to add on the finish for texture). This might take wherever from one minute in a Thermomix (my beast of selection), to 5 to 10 minutes in a normal meals processor. Scrape down the perimeters every minute as you go to get an excellent creamy end result. It ought to find yourself being a pourable liquid moderately than a gritty paste (and barely heat from mixing).
Add the remaining elements besides the beetroot/goji berries/berries and ultimate cup of coconut, and mix once more till fully mixed. Now add the final cup of coconut and pulse to combine (don’t mix, you wish to retain the feel).
Pour half the combination right into a tray lined with baking paper (needs to be round 1 cm thick), easy down with a spatula till fully flat, and put within the freezer.
Now add your pink colored ingredient to the remaining combination and mix once more till mixed.
Remove your tray from the freezer, and as soon as it’s comparatively agency (however not rock laborious), pour the pink layer on high and flatten down once more along with your spatula.
Sprinkle desiccated coconut on high whereas it’s nonetheless moist so it sticks, then put again within the freezer for an hour to agency.
Slice into squares, and hold within the fridge for rapid consumption. They will also be saved within the freezer in a sealed container for a couple of months.

Recipe Video

Recipe Notes

If your coconut sugar is sort of darkish, you would possibly wish to use a light-weight coconut nectar as an alternative – this can be sure to hold a pleasant white color to the bottom and crisp pink to the topping.
The beets will make your high layer extra pink, the goji’s extra pink, and the raspberries extra purple – the photographs I’ve taken listed below are with the beetroot choice.

Nutrition Facts

Healthy Coconut Ice

Amount Per Serving

Calories 272
Calories from Fat 225

% Daily Value*

Fat 25g38%

Saturated Fat 22g138%

Sodium 24mg1%

Potassium 225mg6%

Carbohydrates 12g4%

Fiber 6g25%

Sugar 5g6%