This is a low-carb and sugar-free homemade coffee ice cream without eggs in the recipe. It's a creamy high fat ice cream that scoops well after freezing.
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I just love my new ice cream maker because I no longer have to freeze the container prior to using it. It's got a built in compressor that keeps the ice cream mix perfectly cold during the whole cycle.
The other great thing is that I don't really need to chill the cooked ice cream mix first. However, I've still been using an ice bath to cool the mix down a bit before processing in the machine.
Ice cream is a big weakness of mine and I would often buy CarbSmart ice cream even though it has artificial sweetener in it and other nasty stuff that messes with my digestive tract.
Ice cream maker
It was just so easy to buy ready made sugar-free ice cream. I'm happy to say that I have not bought pre-made ice cream since getting the Cuisinart Ice 100 compressor ice cream maker!
When I need flavors beyond chocolate and vanilla, this low-carb coffee ice cream is welcomed. It's been a while since I've made my own homemade keto ice cream.
I'm working on improving the base recipe before I venture out to more exciting flavors with yummy add-ins. I've made four batches of low-carb ice cream since buying a new ice cream maker and I think I have come up with a great base recipe.
Inspiration
This low carb homemade coffee ice cream without eggs recipe is a variation of my vanilla bean ice cream recipe. These recipes are based on the Jeni Bauer ice cream method which results in creamy and easy to scoop homemade ice cream with no eggs added.
Scoopable texture
Sugar-free ice cream tends to freeze harder than ice cream made with sugar. Some people add a non flavored liquor like vodka to the ice cream mix to keep it scoopable.
I rarely drink alcoholic beverages so I shy away from adding liquor to my ice cream other than the small amount in extracts. Storing homemade ice cream in a Tovolo ice cream tub container also helps prevent it from becoming icy in the freezer.
I have found that using a fiber based sweetener or allulose along with cream cheese and xanthan gum helps keep my homemade low carb ice cream scoopable. It isn't scoopable immediately from the freezer like commercially prepared sugar free ice cream, but letting it sit out for 10-20 minutes allows it to soften to a scoopable texture.
Serving suggestions
I know it's difficult to wait, but this is a delicious treat worth waiting for. It's even better topped with my low-carb hot fudge sauce and whipped cream. Heavenly!
Here's a few other toppings you can use:
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Recipe
Homemade Coffee Ice Cream Without Eggs
Ingredients
- ice water
- 1 ½ ounces cream cheese softened (3 tablespoons)
- ¼ cup strong brewed coffee
- 1 cup unsweetened almond milk or coconut milk
- 2 cups heavy cream
- ¼ cup LC Foods white sweetener - inulin or allulose
- ½ teaspoon stevia concentrated powder
- 1 ½ tablespoons ChocZero Vanilla Honest Syrup
- 1 teaspoon xanthan gum
- 1 teaspoon coffee extract or instant powder
- ½ teaspoon vanilla extract
- ⅛ teaspoon kosher salt
Instructions
- Fill a large bowl with ice water. In another large bowl, whisk the cream cheese until smooth.
- In a large saucepan, combine the brewed coffee, almond milk, heavy cream, VitaFiber powder, stevia extract powder, and VitaFiber syrup. Bring the milk mixture to a boil and cook over moderate heat about 4 minutes. Stir in xanthan gum, coffee extract or powder, and vanilla.
- Gradually whisk the hot milk mixture into the cream cheese until smooth. Whisk in the salt. Set the bowl in the ice water bath and let stand, stirring occasionally, until cold, about 20 minutes.
- Pour mixture into an ice cream maker and freeze according to the manufacturer's instructions. Pack the ice cream into a plastic container.
- Press a sheet of plastic wrap directly onto the surface of the ice cream and close with an airtight lid. Freeze the ice cream until firm, about 4 hours.
Notes
Low Carb Sweeteners | Keto Sweetener Conversion Chart
Nutrition
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mary
What is VitaFiber powder, and VitaFiber syrup.? they are not in the ingreds. list??? thx.
Lisa MarcAurele
It's a product I used to use before they came out with allulose. I now recommend allulose and will remove the older product.
Ivy
Unfortunately, this recipe did not work at all, even when followed strictly.
Originally, it was just jiggly slime that would not set up, because of us large amount of xantham gum, I believe. The texture was extremely chunky, jiggly and gross and the flavor was weak.
To try and save it, I blended it with an immersion blender added 1/4 c whipped HWC. This resulted in a ice cream that was still bland and was frozen solid. To fix this new texture problem, I added 2 TBS of whiskey, and 3 additional TBS of allulose. To fix the taste problem, I added 2TBS of instant espresso powder with half of a chopped up bar of Lilly's and1/4 C espresso beans. The texture is still not pleasant and has large ice crystals and a weird film that coats your mouth when you eat it, but is scoopable. The taste is not great, but so much better and is recognizable as coffee ice cream.
Over all, I had no luck with this recipe and found it very disappointing. I have had great success in the past with LowCarbYums recipes, and was surprised with this one crashed and burned so badly. I do really enjoy this website and its helped me so much with my Low Carb journey, but I think this recipe may need a second look.
Lisa MarcAurele
The original recipe was done with Vitafiber (which was later found to raise blood glucose) so that could be a reason. I'll have to retest with allulose and one of the newer fiber syrups. It was an excellent ice cream with the original ingredients.
Ivy
Gotcha. That makes sense - thank you for that explanation. So many of your recipes have turned out wonderful, I was kinda shocked by this one! I'm sure it was amazing as originally developed. 🙂
Linda Arreguin
Can you make this without an ice cream frezzer??
Lisa
It might be able to. I find that whipping with an electric mixer help to get air in without churning.
Nicole
Any suggestions for a substitute as I can't get vita fiber here in Canada? TIA
Lisa
Chicory root fiber or inulin is a better sub and you'll need less of it.
Susan D
What is VitaFiber powder & VitaFiber syrup? They’re not listed in the ingredients. So have you redone the recipe??
Lisa MarcAurele
I redid the recipe because Vitafiber was found to significantly impact blood sugar.
Kay
What can used to replace the white sugar inulin? When I looked it up, it is sugar with inulin.
Lisa
LC Foods white inulin sweetener is a low carb fiber sweetener. There is no sugar in it. You could use Swerve instead.
Jennifer Stewart
Funny that I don't like to drink coffee but I LOVE coffee ice cream! That is also an ice cream flavor that my husband and I can agree on! Thanks!
Lisa
It is odd that you like coffee flavored ice cream but not the drink. Maybe a good ice coffee could change that!
Kristen @ A Mind Full Mom
Since it has coffee in it, totally acceptable for breakfast right?!
Lisa
YES! Totally acceptable in my mind.
Susanne
This looks amazing! But that's a steep price for an ice cream maker.....
Lisa
I agree that the price of the ice cream maker was a little hard to swallow (I paid about $250), but I've been using it so often that I made counter space for it. I had the Cuisinart ICE-20 machine previously and although I paid under $50 for it, I rarely used it. The reason? I don't have room in the freezer to store the canister and having to wait a couple days for it to fully freeze takes the fun out of making ice cream on a whim.
pam (Sidewalk Shoes)
This should be my first ice cream of the season!
Lisa
I'm already planning a second batch this week!
Nibbles By Nic
I'm craving a lick of this right now!
Anonymous
Recipe is for Coffee Ice Cream. Last sentence on step 5 says to put the vanilla ice cream in the freezer.
Lisa
Thanks! This is what happens when you are working with a crazy toddler in the background. Fixed. The recipe is adapted from my vanilla bean recipe so steps were copied and I missed an edit.
Lisa
It's definitely deserving of a lick!