Low Carb Keto Ice Cream Bars
Thank you to Wholesome Yum for this amazing recipe! It’s summer and you may be craving a creamy sweet treat on these hot summer days. You can make your own low-carb ice cream bars and this is a super easy recipe!
Ingredients
Unsweetened almond milk – Can use plain or vanilla, just make sure it’s the unsweetened variety.
Heavy cream – You could use full-fat coconut milk here for a dairy-free option, but it will give the bars a different flavor.
Besti Monk Fruit Allulose Blend – This is the closest to sugar and is particularly critical for the right ice cream consistency. Plain allulose will also work, but you’ll need about 30% more of it.
Vanilla extract – For vanilla ice cream inside! You can also add different flavor extracts, like hazelnut or fruity ones.
Sugar-free dark chocolate chips – You can also use milk chocolate chips here, just make sure they are sugar-free.
Coconut oil – Coconut oil shouldn’t be substituted, as it helps melt the chocolate into a coating for the ice cream bars.
Silicone molds to create your ice cream bars, you can also use a muffin tin
Popsicle sticks if you want to make them popsicle style ice cream bars
Directions
Mix ice cream base. In a medium bowl, whisk together almond milk, heavy cream, Besti monk fruit allulose, and vanilla extract.
Pour. Add popsicle sticks to silicone molds and pour the ice cream base into each mold. Freeze for at least 8 hours. Or you can pour the base into silicone muffin tins to create little muffin-sized bars, you obviously won’t be able to use popsicle sticks for these.
TIP: Freeze until solid. The bars need to be frozen solid before you move on to the next step so they keep their shape.
Make chocolate coating. In a medium bowl, melt the chocolate chips and coconut oil together in the microwave at 20-second intervals, or in a double boiler on the stove. Set aside to cool to room temperature.
Dip bars in chocolate. Take ice cream bars out of freezer one at a time and dip into chocolate mixture.
TIP: Use a spoon. When coating the ice cream bars with chocolate, it may be helpful to use a spoon to coat the bars completely.
Freeze. Put each bar back in the freezer immediately.
KETO-FRIENDLY ICE CREAM BAR VARIATIONS
White chocolate coating – Try swapping the dark chocolate chips with sugar-free white chocolate chips instead.
Double chocolate – Add a few tablespoons of cocoa powder to the vanilla ice cream base for chocolate ice cream on the inside of the bars.
Dairy-free – Replace heavy cream with full-fat coconut milk.