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Paleo Cookies and Cream Ice Cream

Paleo Cookies and Cream Ice Cream is creamy, delicious, nostalgic ... and free of refined sugars! You'll love the easy homemade "Oreo" cookies that go into this recipe. So much better than store bought and quick to make. This naturally sweetened classic treat is great for other real food diets too: Keto, AIP, GAPS, Vegan, Gluten-free, Dairy-free, Ancestral ... and can be made with raw cream as well, if you prefer, for Primal.
Course Dessert
Cuisine American
Keyword aip, cookies and cream, dairy-free, gaps diet, gluten-free, ice cream, keto, oreo, paleo, primal, vegan
Prep Time 25 minutes
Cook Time 9 minutes
20 minutes
Total Time 54 minutes
Servings 6 servings
Calories 191kcal
Author Megan
Cost $5

Equipment

Ingredients

Instructions

  • Preheat oven to 325° Fahrenheit. Line a cookie sheet with parchment paper. Set aside. Also, place loaf pan or other ice cream storage container into the freezer to chill.
  • In medium-size mixing bowl, stir together dry ingredients: coconut flour, cocoa powder (or carob), arrowroot, baking soda and sea salt.
  • Add palm shortening and liquid sweetener, and using an electric mixer, combine well. Chill for 20 minutes.
  • Use a small cookie scoop (1 Tablespoon size, like this) to space cookie dough 2" apart on the cookie sheet (or 2 spoons); the dough won't spread when baked. Wet your fingers or the back of a spoon repeatedly to press down each mound of dough. First flatten, then press and gently smooth the surface of each cookie. This goes pretty fast and isn't tricky! It's a nice way to avoid rolling out the dough, which is unnecessary. Just scoop and press with wet fingers or the back of a wet spoon. You'll have 15 cookies. (My photo only shows 12.)
    process photo making the cookies for cookies and cream ice cream
  • Bake on the upper or middle rack of the oven for 8 to 9 minutes. Remove, and allow to cool about 10 minutes before transfering to rack to fully cool (the GAPS and Keto version without arrowroot is more fragile, but it's okay if they break a little, because that's where they're headed anyway!). Once fully cool (about 30 minutes), break and crumble 12 of the cookies (you'll have 3 leftover). Set aside until ice cream is mostly frozen.
    process photo of homemade paleo oreo cookies and then crumbling them for ice cream
  • Make Paleo Vanilla Ice Cream, but omit the vanilla extract.
    *If you wish (to make the ice cream base extra creamy, replace vanilla with 1 to 2 Tablespoons vodka [totally optional; don't do this for AIP or GAPS]).
    *For the GAPS version of this recipe, use honey to sweeten the ice cream.
  • Freeze ice cream according to manufacturor's instructions. When ice cream is about 75% frozen (very slushy but not yet fully thickened, about 5 minutes of churning left to go), pour in cookie crumbs through the opening at the top of your ice cream maker. Once cookies are fully incorporated and ice cream has thickened, turn off machine and transfer ice cream to pre-frozen pan. Freeze until ready to eat, or cover for overnight storage. (Cover by pressing a piece of parchment paper directly on the surface.)
    Paleo Cookies and Cream Ice Cream in the ice cream maker freezing and almost done

Notes

Dairy variation with cream

Ingredients
  • 2 cups heavy cream (or probiotic sour cream for GAPS)
  • 1 cup water
  • 1/2 cup pure maple syrup (or honey for GAPS OR this allulose for Keto)
  • 1/8 teaspoon sea salt
  • optional: 1 Tablespoon vodka
Instructions
  1. Simply hand-whisk the ingredients together until the sweetener is fully dissolved or incorporated into the cream base.
  2. Freeze according to manufacturer's directions, and proceed with Instructions above for incorporating in your cookie crumbs.

The Nutrition facts below are for the Keto version of this recipe.

Nutrition

Calories: 191kcal | Carbohydrates: 5g | Protein: 1g | Fat: 14g | Saturated Fat: 1g | Sodium: 140mg | Potassium: 1mg | Fiber: 2g | Sugar: 1g | Calcium: 1mg | Iron: 1mg