Yummy dairy free ice-creams

Having bought a lot of long life soya cream before Christmas that was just taking up far to much room in the fridge I decided to use it and make a batch of ice-creams.

I made a litre of soya milk to which I added 51/5 tubs of cream, and 300g sugar and heated to boiling. The other half a tub I mixed with 4 tablespoons of arrowroot, Once milk comes to the boil remove from heat and immediately stir in cream and  arrowroot mix.

the star anise mushed and sieved

At this point I split the mix into three, and to one I added 4 star anise to one lot whilst still hot to bring put the beautiful aniseed flavour. Once the mixture was cooled, I liquidised the star anise in the milk, and then strained off the tough bits, the smell was heavenly










I also popped some raspberries in a bowl and added a ladle full of the creamy mixture to release their flavour and soften them up. 

the chocolate ice cream

Once the mixtures had cooled I made one lot of star anise ice-cream, one lot of chocolate using the chocolate essence and one lot of raspberry.

The chocolate one was ok but I am not impressed with the chocolate essence at all, the other flavours I have are simply to die for, this one just is...

The star anise ice-cream

I have to admit the star anise one ( if you like aniseed) was so so delicious.

The raspberry one was a nice sharp ice cream. The raspberries taste as good as the real thing.


I like this recipe, it works well, and it is taken from The Vegan Scoop, one of many recipes in there, which was sent to me by Gaggia when they sent me the ice-cream maker.

To read what I think of the machine please see here


This is a review post but the findings are my own honest opinion