Ice cream, Cuisinart Ice 21, and sweet potatoes & chocolate

[MandysMom]

Attention getting title, Yes?
Tonight we used the Beth recommended ice cream machine for first time. We like it. Easy to use. Stores can in freezer easy and would hold a bag of some frozen food if I were in RV. Note to self, when done freezing, don't let it sit on counter til all have eaten, they were not kidding the remaining ice cream does stick to can. I got out with plastic scraper but it would have been easier while just made. We loved the texture. One qt canning jar of my chilled mix plus about 1/4 c almost over flowed can when freezing so will use slightly less next time. Took almost exactly 20 min as they said for firmish soft serve consistency.

Now to sweet potato and chocolate. Brenda (Berrywell) who signed on a while back only to get too busy to post (she will be back soon as she just sold her house and is moving into a 33 ft TT which she may or may not tow but hopes to get a B class soon too as she wants to stick around home while her daughter goes to college nearby. She has a lot of food and chemical sensitivities and makes all her own food. Growing much at times. She talked me into his.
Brenda's Sweet Potato Chocolate ice cream
1 large sweet potato, peeled, diced and cooked in water until very soft.
While hot, whirl in blender adding chocolate chips to taste and some cooking water to pourable consistency.
Cool in fridge then freeze in ice cream maker.
Because I used a powerful blender, it was very creamy texture. When chilled almost pudding like. Frozen it was very chocolatey and like soft serve. You have to get used to the mouth texture of NO fat or she said add some coconut oil while still hot and blend .
Husband a diabetic loved it. Only sugar from chocolate chips and carbs and fiber of sweet potato.
Very picky son had seconds!!!
I liked it but it took a few bites to be used to the non fat feel. Plenty chocolatey with about 1 1/2 c chips to the huge sweet potato. As I said the two ingredients made just over 4 cups mixture.
A success and now I have a fresh pineapple and canned coconut milk to try in ice cream maker.
I don't see myself making any of the book recipes ESP those that call for eggs and cream, but I do see lots of experiments here. The machine and the sweet potato ice cream were a hit. Brenda says try sweet potato with maple syrup sometime and I can see cinnamon in that one.
Velda

[Bethers]

So glad you like the machine. Mine are all experiments, too. So far I've not let any go to waste, so even the less successful were good enough, just need tweaking. Haven't tried using sweet potatoes. Will be in the future.

Make sure to refrigerate the coconut milk at least overnight. Then pour out or use for something else the liquid in the can and use only the solid. My pineapple ice cream tasted excellent, but I will blend the pineapple better next time. I might have to invest in a better blender, but hate adding anything else to the RV if I can work around it.

[MandysMom]

I did not know there would be coconut water on top of the coconut milk. I also did not realize I would really have to look to find a can of coconut milk that was just coconut without a bunch of chemicals and additives. The better stuff was only a little more cost, pennies. I will look at the health food store tomorrow to see if they have organic. Thanks for the tips. Did you freeze the pineapple chunks? My Vitamix is a fixture in our lives and making this ice cream base is just one of its many uses. With husband on puréed food for nearly a year, the Vitamix has paid for itself in good nutrition for him.
Looking forward to sharing ice cream ideas for the machine. It was so easy really. Maybe pumpkin with cinnamon and nutmeg in fall?

[Bethers]

I freeze pineapple chunks for smoothies but used fresh for the ice cream in order to blend them easier. I might blend it, then freeze it next time.

[MandysMom]

Was thinking I might blend some of the pineapple with the coconut milk but hold some pineapple aside and chop that fairly small and put mix in ice cream maker and as it starts to get thick add the chunks. Maybe sometime if I get extravagant, chop some macadamia nuts,to go in as well!

[berrywell]

Hello, ladies. I just posted an intro in the newbie section. I am Brenda, Velda's friend from NC, and have been enjoying my sweet potato chocolate ice cream daily-delicious! I look forward to sharing other recipes and ideas with you. Thanks for having me in the group (and thank you Velda for inviting me to it)