I’ve know about healthy ice-cream for a while now and how popular it is within the raw food community. But I thought if I wanted to sample some of it myself I’d have to either hunt down a raw food restaurant or figure out how to make it myself. So I was ecstatic when I found a raw, organic ice-cream in Edinburgh that contains no dairy, refined sugar or soy!!
The ingredients list on Booja-Booja’s Hunky Punky Chocolate ice-cream are simply amazing. If you can believe it, this ice-cream contains only four ingredients – water, agave, cashew nuts and cacao powder.
It seems impossible to make ice-cream out of these few ingredients (especially considering it contains no dairy or dairy alternative) but I’m willing to bet that if you served this ice-cream up to someone who didn’t know that it was a “healthy” alternative, they wouldn’t know the difference at all.
The sweetener is agave which I’ve talked about before. Agave is high in fructose which some people don’t like, but it has a low enough GI to be safe with diabetics so that makes it safe enough for the skin. Apart from the cashew fat content, this stuff is so healthy you could eat it for breakfast. It certainly beats a bowl of cocoa pops anyway.
The hunky punky chocolate ice-cream is great frozen because it looks, feels and tastes like ice-cream. I don’t know if I’m breaking the rules here but I actually love it melted. I pop it in the fridge instead of the freezer and it turns into chocolate mousse (the ultimate comfort food).
If you’re not a chocolate lover like me, you can get Booja-Booja’s stuff in a tub in four other flavors – Smiling Vanilla M’Gorilla, Pompompous Maple Pecan, Coconut Hullabaloo and Feisty Winjin Ginger.
Oh, and just to prove that other people like it too (apart from the fact that my travel buddy ate a whole tub himself in less than 3 days), Booja-Booja’s ice-cream has won an award for best organic food product in 2007.
If you want to get yourself a tub of Booja-Booja, unfortunately you have to live in the UK …or at least be visiting. And you have to find it in Wholefoods or health food stores because they have a “no supermarket” policy (I’m assuming for ethical reasons so kudos for that Booja-Booja!).
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Seems impossible then get this……there’s a way to make coconut ice cream here in the caribbean with like 3 ingredients.It tastes like it has either a ton of honey or sugar but its really just the coconut itself.I also know about making rum and raisin ice cream without anything unhealthy except the rum itself probably.
Looks delicious. THanks Fran.I would love to try this and get my mouth on eating more health cacao procuts.
Oh, that sucks that they don’t make it in the U.S. The ice cream here is PACKED with so much sugar and other junk it’s ridiculous. Maybe they will in the future…
Ooh Kevin, how do you make the Caribbean ice-cream?? I’d love to know. I also read online last night that you can make an ice-cream by blending a frozen banana with cacao and agave or honey. Sounds so good. There are so many raw ice-cream recipes out there, when I get back home I might dust off my ice-cream maker (that I’ve used once) and have a go at making some of these myself, because Booja-Booja or anything like it isn’t sold in Australia either
It’s a shame that I can’t try the Booja-Booja ice-cream
since I don’t live in the UK. But I will definitely try the recipe you suggested Fran – this home-made ice-cream sounds delicious! 
Although not necessarily raw…this is a great organic alternative to dairy & refined sugar ice cream & it’s available in the states.
*Have you tried Purely Decadent Coconut Milk ice cream? So rich & rewarding.
http://www.turtlemountain.com/products/purely_decadent_Coconut_Milk.html
*Luna & Larry’s Coconut Bliss (Cherry Amaretto – YUMM-0, Fran – you may really like the Chocolate Hazelnut Fudge.)
http://coconutbliss.com/html/flavors.html
Sometimes I put a banana in shakes that I make and sometimes it tastes sinfully sweet to me, but not that sweet to my siblings. Please keep us informed if you find any great recipes since I live in the US which, as mentioned, doesn’t normally have any great varieties of ice cream.
Ok here it is, if you ever want the unhealthy version that tastes like something out of this world then let me know.
Note: The 3 ingredient recipe is not availabe at the moment for my use on the internet but here’s another option thats just as good with only a few more ingredients.The other one has a mellow taste but I think this one is more palatable.But I’ll be rattling the recipe maker to give up the answer for the 3 ingredient one.
INGREDIENTS
3 coconuts
1 tin of condensed milk or healthier alternative if available
2 cups of soy milk or alternative
2 tbsp of custard powder or cornstarch
almond essence
1 tin of cream
METHOD
1. Peel the brown covering of the coconut and grate or use the osterizer
2. Extract the coconut milk
3. Add the custard or cornstarch to the soy milk to make a paste then cook until mixture thickens
4. Remove from heat and cool a little ; add coconut milk.Use sugar alternative if necessary .
5. Add cream then Chill then Freeze.
This recipe is a local favorite here in the caribbean so I hope you like it.If you dont then dont base the taste off all the caribbean food on this recipe ok, lol.
Also just let me know if any of the ingredients are unhealthy.
Hi Fran! Oh, that ice cream sounds SO good! Pity I can’t get it here in Singapore though. We don’t even have Wholefoods here I think!
Anyway, I was wondering if by any chance could our skin get “used to” tea tree oil? And if olive oil clogs our pores?
Thanks in advance!:D
Lynn- tea tree oil is a natural antiseptic and the body doesn’t get used to antiseptics so I think it’ll keep on working.
Olive oil has a medium rating for comedogenicity (2) so it may clog your pores but it’s not at a rating that means it will definitely clog your skin and you should avoid it, just use it with caution.
I love this stuff ! But it’s just so darn expensive. But certainly worth a once a month pot ! I have only tried the chocolate one and once i start i just can’t stop… i am so lucky to have a great health food store 5 mins away from my flat so i can pop out anytime to get this stuff
Yee har !
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