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<strong>Style</strong> | Food 63 Hold the dairy Enjoy a summer dalliance with dairy-free ice cream. Words Kristina Jensen Create a delicious summer treat, plus use up surplus fruit, with this dairy-free ice cream. The key point of this recipe is experimentation. Be brave and try new flavours and ingredients. Substitute different fruits, spices, nuts or whatever you like into the basic mix. It can be frozen in ice-block makers, larger flat containers or parfait glasses for a fancy touch, but it’s really best eaten right after it has been made. This is a ‘waste not, want not’ recipe as well. Freeze any surplus fruit (skin off, the riper the better – with more natural sugars in it). Create a Nice Cream artist’s palette in your freezer, with bananas, ‘Black Boy’ peaches, plums, apple sauce, blueberries, blackberries, de-pitted cherries, kiwifruit and figs, all waiting to be used to make Nice Cream whenever you should so desire. Create a Nice Cream artist’s palette in your freezer, with bananas, ‘Black Boy’ peaches, plums, apple sauce, blueberries, blackberries, de-pitted cherries, kiwifruit and figs. Basic Nice Cream recipe INGREDIENTS 1 cup frozen bananas 2 cups frozen fruit ½ cup toasted nuts and/or seeds a dash of vanilla, mint or almond essence lemon juice pinches of spices, such as nutmeg, cinnamon, cloves or ginger 2–3 Tbsp sweetener, such as maple syrup, coconut sugar, rapadura, honey, molasses, rice malt syrup or agave syrup optional: 1 cup coconut yoghurt (adds to the creaminess) soy or rice milk METHOD 1. Place all ingredients in a kitchen whizz. 2. Pulse it several times to start mixing it and then, only if needed, slowly drizzle soy or rice milk in until it just starts spinning and cutting the fruit up. Not too much as this will make it runny; not enough, and it will cause your kitchen whizz to have palpitations. 3. Mix until the fruit is just blended. Don’t overmix! Lumpy is good. 4. Eat it or freeze straight away. Freezes best in a shallow dish at 3–5cm depth. OTHER OPTIONS Try adding spirulina, raw cacao powder, bee pollen, chocolate chips or even a liqueur.