We all scream for ice cream!

It's plain ol' hot outside and nothing says summertime like ice cream.  Ice cream is one of my favorite treats no matter what the weather, so when I came across the old ice cream maker circa 1990s in storage I decided it was time to put that old guy back into action. I researched quite a few recipes but for my first outing I wanted to keep it simple. I found one with only 4 ingredients and ran with it. I froze my ice cream container and went to bed with dreams of ice cream in my head.
Vegan Almond Milk Ice Cream
Ingredients:
1 1/2 c almond milk

bananas not pictured

2 heaping Tbsp cocoa powder
2 Tbsp sugar
2 ripe bananas

Prep:
Whisk together the milk, sugar, cocoa. Once combined put into blender/food processor and add the bananas. Pulse till pureed. Pour the mixture into your ice cream maker, and let it do its magic. Mine took about 15 min to set up.

I'm sure you could get 4 servings out of this recipe but if  you eat ice cream like I do it's more like 2! Have fun with it, you can add in nuts, berries, chunks of chocolate.
I already have my canister washed and in the freezer ready for the next batch! This will certainly not be the last time I make ice cream.
Hope you like it, Happy Summer!

Vegan Chocolate Truffles

Summer is in full swing and I don't know about you but I always want sweet things even more in the summer! (Ok let's face it any season is an excuse for me to have sweets) Like any good idea lately I found this recipe on Pinterest. You can follow me, sassycassy@gmail.com. The original recipe called for an enormous amount of the ingredients so I scaled back. Didn't want to have too many sweet treats around to tempt me.

The ingredients are simple: 10 pitted medjool dates,

2 Tbsp cacao powder 

2 tsp coconut oil

If your dates aren't pitted just cut them in half and take out the pit. Put the dates and cacao powder in a high powered blender or food processor. I used the single serve container on my Ninja. More about my love of the Ninja in a post real soon. Pulse them till the dates are all mashed up. Then add the coconut oil and pulse again. When everything is good and gooey scrape it all out and put in a bowl. Refrigerate for about 15 min so it's cool and easy to work with.









Now the fun begins, roll them into the size you would like. I made mine pretty small and got 18 truffles, I will keep to myself how much I "sampled". You can roll them in more cacao powder or almonds like I did. Obviously you can use any nut you would like. Also you can cocoa powder that just breaks the rules of being raw, which you may or may not care about. I'm pretty sure some powdered sugar would taste great too. 
So there you have it, a quick easy to make, guilt free snack!