I have a personal question for you. Dig deep now and be your most authentic self, okay? This is a safe place . . . you won’t be judged for saying the wrong thing. No, really. I’ll love you no matter what your answer is. Ready? Alright. Here goes:
If you could have only ONE ice cream for the rest of your life, would it be vanilla or chocolate?
Pick your favorite! Don’t worry, I’m not going to actually take away one of them. You can have ALL THE ICE CREAM!
Do you love homemade ice cream? Here are some great recipes to try out!
- Cherry Sorbet by Nourished Kitchen
- Kefir Ice Cream by Cultures for Health
- Vanilla Bean and Fresh Mint Ice Cream by Nourished Kitchen
- Blackberry Sorbet by Nourished Kitchen
- Chocolate Ice Cream by Our Nourishing Roots
- Butter Pecan by Wellness Mama
- Vanilla Bean by Holistic Squid
- Salted Caramel by Sprouted Kitchen
- Chocolate “Peanut Butter” Ice Cream With Chocolate Shell by PaleOMG
- Coconut Milk Ice Cream by me
- Mint Chocolate Chip by The Nourishing Gourmet
- Piña Colada by Holistic Squid
- Chai by Food Renegade
- Unless you don’t have an ice cream maker, of course. If not, I recommend a Cuisanart 2-Quart Ice Cream, Sorbet & Frozen Yogurt Maker. It’s what I use to make treats for my precious littles.
What is your favorite homemade ice cream flavor?
Micaela
April 4, 2014 at 11:13 AMOne flavor?! Tough choice…probably dark chocolate ;).
Briana
April 4, 2014 at 11:18 AMI think I would choose vanilla ice cream, by the way. In the past, I would have said chocolate, but vanilla is just more versatile. And a really good, quality vanilla is so rich and creamy….mmmm. 🙂
Vikkie
April 4, 2014 at 11:20 AMIf I could only have one kind of ice cream it would be vanilla.. because you could add any topping to it.. good luck to me.. 🙂
Jenni
April 4, 2014 at 11:30 AMMy dad is the ice cream making patriarch of our family and he would love a new machine!
Olinda
April 4, 2014 at 11:32 AMI LOVE ice cream but my son and I are dairy free among other things. So I would share my Vanilla Bean Ice Cream with my son because he too needs ice cream to live fully. Then my sister Eva becuase she has done so much for me and SHE would love coconut ice cream too.
bebe
April 4, 2014 at 11:56 AMMy LO has lots of food sensitivities, so most conventional ice cream is out. I would love to share some homemade ice cream with her!!
Sophia
April 4, 2014 at 12:33 PMI love ice cream and i’d rather make my own so i can leave all the toxic additives out.
Dawn
April 4, 2014 at 12:51 PMI raise Nubian dairy goats. I have 32 at last count. Me and the hubby have chairs set up outside the field where we sit and watch “GoaTV” with our dessert. So besides my hubby I would be sharing with the amazing critters that provided the milk and cream. They love it!
Therese' Pureveen
April 4, 2014 at 1:08 PMAlways wanted one so that I can make a dairy free ice-cream that is delicious but wont make me sick!
Melissa
April 4, 2014 at 1:14 PMI think I’d probably choose chocolate, because everything goes with chocolate 🙂 I would share the first batch with my husband and daughter.
Jenn
April 4, 2014 at 1:22 PMI would share mine with my husband, since his weakness is ice cream. My daughter would enjoy some as well! 🙂
Lynne
April 4, 2014 at 1:27 PMI would love one of these. I would make natural ice cream so that I wouldn’t be giving any artificial chemicals to my grandkids.
Ann
April 4, 2014 at 2:03 PMI would choose Vanilla. I enjoy Chocolate, but for long term, Vanilla would have to be my choice, and my husband (and best friend) would be sharing it with me.
Julia Geraghty
April 4, 2014 at 2:10 PMThanks for all the good you do! A ice cream maker is most definitely on my wish list. My toddler is turning 2 this July and i have several food allergies that have kept me away from ice cream for over 3 years now. It would be amazing to share a bowl with him. 🙂
Jen C
April 4, 2014 at 2:46 PMMy boyfriend is still using an old-school ice cream maker (has to add the salt and everything!) and I think this would be a welcome reprieve from that!
Kathleen Lane
April 4, 2014 at 3:19 PMI would love love love to have an ice cream maker. Have thought about doing it in my food processor and just freezing and reprocessing it but it seems like too much work!!
Jennifer
April 4, 2014 at 3:30 PMI think I will make ice cream for my daughter’s 4th birthday this month and share it with all our friends and relatives!
Karen McAdams
April 4, 2014 at 4:26 PMAs I read this post, I am actually eating (store-bought) ice cream with my boys. Chocolate all the way, baby! This is the exact ice cream maker that I’ve been trying to save up to buy so I can share some yummy homemade custard ice cream with my kids, just like I used to make with my parents when I was a kid.
Barbara
April 4, 2014 at 6:58 PMI would have a Sunday dinner and share it with my family. I’d serve vanilla ice cream with toppings; strawberries, chocolate, maple syrup, bananas, coconut and chocolate chips. I think maybe whipped cream, too.
Jenni Rom
April 4, 2014 at 7:09 PMOur family would be first–for coconut ice cream–and then our small group … probably peach! YUM!
Karen
April 4, 2014 at 7:55 PMVanilla. I can always add chocolate syrup if I want to. LOL. I’d share with my first batch (and probably subsequent batches) with my 89 year old neighbors. We love a root bear float on a hot day…..
Brande
April 4, 2014 at 8:07 PMI love CHOCOLATE ice cream. My kiddos & I would share the first batch for sure.
I love all your post. One of my favorites has been the homemade marshmallows. It is always fun to make those traditional unhealthy goodies in a new healthy way.
Charice
April 4, 2014 at 8:29 PMMy mom has this exact ice cream maker and its awesome once you get the hang of it. I like vanilla raw goats milk ice cream! And I always share with my kiddos, unless it contains chocolate or coffee. ^_^
Nicci
April 4, 2014 at 8:56 PMI could live without chocolate. I always pick vanilla over chocolate, whether we are talking ice cream or cupcakes.
I would share with my handsome hubs and the two most fantastic and adorbs kids in the universe.
Kathleen
April 4, 2014 at 9:13 PMDefinitely vanilla!
I would share my first batch with my 10 year old daughter. We are both celiacs and my daughter loves icecream but of course often misses out on delicious flavours.
Leticia
April 4, 2014 at 11:51 PMI would choose chocolate ice cream and I would share my first batch with my family of course.
Jennifer Cook
April 5, 2014 at 3:54 AMVanilla, of course! Because it can easily become any other flavor! I would share my first batch with my adorable hubby of 18 years, our 16 and 13 yr old boys, and 11 yr old daughter. I have the best easiest recipe, too. I love your e-book DIY Cleaners. Just cleaned my toilet with lemony fresh — worked great, smells so good! Thanks!
Sarah
April 5, 2014 at 6:20 AMmy first batch will be made as soon as I get this beauty, so just my hubby and daughter. Then I’ll share with my best friend and my daughter’s best friend… and our regular potlucks… and… oh so excited!
Janell
April 5, 2014 at 11:16 AMI would love to choose chocolate because it’s my favorite, but I would have to go with vanilla because of more possible toppings. I would love to make frozen yogurt to share with my husband and baby, and ice cream for the adults, of course!
Karen
April 5, 2014 at 2:38 PMDo I have to share my ice cream? haha No, I’m kidding! I can share with my six-year-old daughter. She’d love making her own desserts!
Lesli
April 5, 2014 at 2:44 PMIf I had only one flavour for the rest of my life I’d go with vanilla, as it is more versatile. I could always add homemade fudge sausce 🙂 I’d share my first batch with my kids and hubby.
Kate
April 5, 2014 at 4:17 PMIf I had to choose one flavor, it would have to be vanilla (because you can have almost any topping, right?) I’d share my first batch of ice cream w/my daughter and husband.
Momma J
April 5, 2014 at 7:41 PMI would LOVE to be able to make lactose-free ice cream for my family!!!
Jordie
April 5, 2014 at 11:52 PMI would share my first ice cream with my brother, because he’s autistic and hasn’t eaten ice cream in YEARS because it makes his digestion stop and he gets sick after he eats conventional dairy.
Loretta
April 6, 2014 at 7:04 AMAt our house, the darker the chocolate, the better! So I’d make a big batch of that and share it with my hubby and daughter.
Sarah
April 7, 2014 at 10:47 AMChocolate! Although I have some kefir in the fridge I’m trying to learn how to use in more ways so that might be the first one I try making:) And I might share some with my hubby and kids before eating a gallon myself.
Linda
April 8, 2014 at 6:56 AMI will be sharing this with my kids who have not had icecream for a year now. We are on gaps/aip, so this would be awesome! We would have to make coconut based.
Courtney
April 8, 2014 at 9:31 PMI would choose vanilla 🙂 And I would share it with a person who appreciates ice cream 🙂
Jen
April 11, 2014 at 4:00 PMThe first one I’d share it with is my son, Josh. He has a lot of food allergies and it would be great, and so much cheaper, to be able to make allergy friendly versions of ice cream!
Mary Schaefer
April 12, 2014 at 10:42 AMCoffee 🙂
May Fynaardt
April 12, 2014 at 10:46 AMCoconut milk!
Kate
April 12, 2014 at 10:55 AMVanilla for sure. I can still add chocolate topping right?
Kim Campbell
April 12, 2014 at 11:01 AMI would make salted caramel and share with my hubby!!
Daisy
April 12, 2014 at 11:17 AMVanilla for me! I’m not a huge fan of chocolate ice cream, and there are so many ways to change up vanilla!
Amanda Gaines
April 12, 2014 at 11:26 AMChocolate. Without a doubt in my mind!
Lydia
April 12, 2014 at 11:26 AMChocolate. I only like vanilla ice cream in root beer, and chocolate might just taste good in that:).
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April 12, 2014 at 11:39 AMVanilla because it tastes so good with hot fudge and whipped cream {they would still be allowed, no?}
Judi Stavick Kase
April 12, 2014 at 11:52 AMvanilla, your creativity of different toppings could be used for a different flavor every day….
D Stevens
April 13, 2014 at 10:58 AMVanilla would be my pick, So many things I could top it with 🙂
Krystal Wight Armstrong
April 14, 2014 at 6:16 PMI will definitely share my first batch with my best buddy, my Husband! I’ve wanted an ice cream maker for years and years, since I once read a GuidePosts story about how making icecream together helped a marriage! 😀
Tamika
April 17, 2014 at 7:28 PMI took my kids to an antique store last week, and they saw a hand crank ice cream maker. We have not had ice cream in forever! We usually take frozen fruit and blend it in the blender as I have not had much luck with dairy free ice cream. I would love to get my kids and ice cream maker, so obviously my first batch would be shared with them. Pretty sure they would want chocolate.
Rosanne
April 18, 2014 at 10:32 AMI’ve been wanting a healthy replacement for store-bought ice cream, so this would be ideal! I have three boys at home who would love to share the first batch and we’d probably start with vanilla.
Milou
April 22, 2014 at 3:44 AMI dont know If it would be save to share my first badge of Ice cream.
I have a tendency to screw recipices up 🙁 However en machine like this should make the process a bit easier right?
The first actually edable badge I will share with my gramdma. She lives in a small villages in Holland and is to old to travel anywhere anymore. The local supermarkt doest sell to many different flavors and I know she loves mints. I would love to make her some chocolate mint Ice cream.
Wendy Hartley
April 23, 2014 at 10:40 AMSalted Caramel ice cream!?!? OMG!! I would share with no one, lol! All mine!!
Emily Davis
April 24, 2014 at 3:19 PMMy family and I would love some homemade ice cream! Especially if it didn’t involve all the salt and noise. 😉
Coral
April 26, 2014 at 10:02 PMVanilla- it goes better with sauces, and I’d share my first batch with my son. He’ll be old enough to try ice cream soon!
Rachel O
April 26, 2014 at 10:17 PMAs blue berry season is right around the corner, i will definitely be making that with my little 2 year old! shes an ice cream freak!
harini
April 26, 2014 at 10:34 PMI love chocolate.. be it icecream or a chocolate bar. I would sit down with all the icecream bucket for my own self & only think of sharing it if I am really full..
Kirsten
April 26, 2014 at 10:47 PMWe fell in love with homemade ice cream when I had to go dairy free while nursing my fourth baby! I “won” a white elephant gift (hehe) of an ice cream maker and tried many different coconut milk recipes. Loved them! Then the ice cream maker died…boo. Now have toddler #5 (also dairy free) and baby #6 on the way. My family (especially my ice cream-addict-but- oh-so-very-picky-“it has to be natural” -husband) would go CRAZY for a new ice cream maker!!!
Candice
April 27, 2014 at 2:19 AMChocolate ice cream with a peanut butter swirl. Hands down! I can hardly keep ice cream in my house with four people (two of them teenagers), so having this ice cream maker would be a big help!
Karen
April 27, 2014 at 7:36 AMI would love to make mint chocolate chip ice scream for my daughter’s 3rd birthday party! 🙂
Ashley
April 27, 2014 at 2:09 PMVanilla because you can add anything to it- even chocolate. I would share with my husband, my three year old, and my two year old…the baby would get it a few hours later. 🙂
Sheila
April 28, 2014 at 12:02 AMIt would have to be Goat Milk Ice Cream, the absolute BEST ice cream in the world and a life saver for my kids who could only do goat and sheep milk dairy – the ultimate! optional crowning glory is to toss in a crushed pecans, a bit of salt and shattered toffee crumbs and there we have i/c HEAVEN-SENT! This cheerful gadget would make it all go smoothly, that’s for certain! Thanks for the chance to be reminded of such splendid treats!
Elaine Sumner
April 28, 2014 at 7:48 PMVanilla – you can always add chocolate to it, and a lot of other goodies.