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4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream – ‘Free From’, No-churn, Guilt-Free

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In the past few months, we have been on holidays a couple of times, and I use my Vitamix blender so much I could not really imagine being apart from it during our holidays. When Zyliss asked me to try their portable Easy Pull food processor, I was over the moon as it would make the perfect travel substitute.

It is small, so despite the fact our car was fuller than you could imagine for both trips, we managed to squeeze in the tiny food processor. I used it for all sorts of things, from mashed apples to finely chopped veg for salads to homemade burgers to guacamole.

4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream – Crevette using the Easy Pull

The recipe I am sharing today is moreish yet guilt-free, versatile and free from egg, wheat, nuts or refined sugar. Oh, and you will only need four ingredients!

4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream – Ingredients

This is not the sort of ice cream you would have on a cone. It is a lot more moreish and fudgy than traditional ice cream. My brothers loved it and thought it was more like giant truffles than ice cream.

4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream –

You can use the recipe below to make scoops of rich chocolate ice cream (or chocolate dessert), bite-sized chocolate truffles or chunks to add to regular chocolate ice cream.

If you chop the ice cream into 1/2cm cubes and sprinkle it over regular chocolate ice cream, it will add a rich and fudgy touch and will be just like Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream.

The children really enjoyed creating the recipe with me and taking part in the whole process.

4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream – Beanie and Crevette Working Together

Although Zyliss clearly state that the Easy Pull must be kept out of the reach of children, I explained to Crevette (7 years 3 months) that it had really sharp blades and put it together myself before I let him do the pulling carefully under supervision.

Beanie (5 years 1 month) was also fully involved in the whole process. She poured, folded, moulded scoops, sprinkled toppings and ate a lot of it!

4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream – Beanie Making Scoops

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4-Ingredient Chocolate Fudge Brownie Ice Cream

A moreish chocolate treat that is vegan, gluten-free and free from refined sugar.
Prep Time 30 minutes

Ingredients

  • 8 dates
  • 100 g good quality dark chocolate
  • 400 g sweet potatoes
  • 2 heaped tablespoons cocoa powder
  • Optional: desiccated coconut if you can tolerate them, crushed dry-roasted pistachios or almonds

Instructions

  1. Soak the dates in cold water for 30 minutes.
  2. In the meantime, peel and dice the sweet potatoes. Boil them for 10-15 minutes, until cooked.
  3. Drain them and leave them side to cool.
  4. Stone the dates and blend them in a food processor.
  5. Chop and melt the dark chocolate in 10 second blasts in the microwave.
  6. Add the sweet potatoes and blend again.
  7. Transfer to a freezer-safe dish. Fold in the melted chocolate and cocoa powder.
  8. Cover and freeze for a couple of hours or until firm.
  9. Mould into scoops (small for truffles or larger for ice cream) and freeze again for at least four hours.
  10. Serve with coffee and if you wish, top with desiccated coconut or crushed nuts.
  11. Alternatively, to turn regular ice cream into Ben & Jerry’s Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream, chop into small cubes and sprinkle over chocolate ice cream.

Disclosure:
– This is a sponsored post.
– All opinions and photographs are my own.

 

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  16. Sue C says

    It does depend on my mood, but normally something chocolatey! Or peanut butter with chocolate bits!!

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  24. Bonnie King says

    Chocolate always! I’m going to sneakily see if I can make your recipe without preying eyes lol.

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  51. Hannah Budding Smiles says

    Mmmm, this looks amazing! Your newsletters dropping into my inbox are guaranteed to make me hungry! I love chocolate ice cream, more so since being pregnant which isn’t necessarily a good thing!xx

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  54. Vicki montague says

    Yum!!!! And what a great machine! I have a similar one I bought in aldi that I use for so much! That ice cream looks amazing but the sugar in the chocolate would make it off limits for me at the mo 🙁

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  89. Emily K (@EmilyK1983) says

    Really interesting looking recipe – will have to give it a go!

    It’s getting to the season when I make Christmas pudding and brandy sauce ice cream…so, so good – has to be my favourite! 🙂

    Reply

  107. Becky Yeomans says

    Oh god! This is a hard one, Its out of salted caramel or bubble gum – Im gonna go with bubble gum 😀

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  173. Rose Elise says

    I always have to get sorbet now (I don’t eat dairy), so this recipe is amazing because in reality, I’d love to eat the rich chocolate ice creams and not the fruity ones!

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    • Mel says

      I hope you like it! If you type ‘ice cream’ in the search bar on the blog, you’ll find a couple of other ‘ice cream’ recipes without dairy.

      Reply

  230. Lesley Bambridge says

    I would like to say some interesting variation, but if I’m honest, it’s chocolate!

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  240. Karen Laing says

    Tablet flavour,but,try it at your peril,it’s the most delicious ice-cream ever and once you start it’s very difficult to stop.

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  245. Jo Carroll says

    It’s funny because when you are really small you love vanilla and then as you grow up you seem to like everything but – as you consider it too plain – but you reach an age of enlightenment when you finally realise vanilla is best after all…especially the full dairy cream variety!

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  260. Karen Lloyd says

    I can never make my mind up which is my favourite ice cream flavour so I’m going to say neapolitan because it contains my 3 faves.

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  284. Kelly Hanson says

    I love strawberry cheesecake flavour or if I’m in a chocolatey mood Ben and Jerry’s phish food is amazing 😛

    Reply

  306. miss green says

    My favourite is Dark chocolate and mint .Im sure that would be possible to make from scratch

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  307. Serena La Pietra says

    Berry sorbets are my favourite but if it’s ice cream then it has to be chocolate and salted caramel.

    Reply

  347. Gem Cook says

    I absolutely love Mint Choc Chip. Fantastic giveaway, i love baking and cooking and I don’t have a decent food processor. Thank you for the chance x

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  361. alice lightning says

    has to be real vanilla ice cream ,banana ,and coconut sorry couldn’t choose just one

    Reply

    • Mel says

      You have to be creative when you have children with allergies, he he! I love it best chopped into tiny cubes and sprinkled over regular chocolate or vanilla ice cream. x

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