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	Vice Cream by Jeff Rogers 128 pages

Vice Cream by Jeff Rogers
98 pages

Vice Cream is a tiny little cookbook that’s all about vegan ice creams packed with big flavor. The author has shown us how to make rich, flavorful, creamy alternatives to ice cream. If you don’t have an ice cream maker, run out and get one because you’re going to need it to use this book. These vice creams are easy to make and a joy to eat. What I like about Vice Cream is that the recipes do not rely on soy as a base. Cashews are used instead, and provide a nice, creamy base for these recipes. Vice cream is not low-fat, but so good and very addicting!

The book starts off with the basics in order to get you started. Included in this book are also raw vice creams and sauces to top all of your vice cream treats with. Although we loved all of the vice cream recipes we tried, the sauces were not good at all. The author suggests using honey dates, something I could not find, and I quickly discovered that the medjool dates I did use had a very strong flavor and overwhelmed the sauces I made. Because I had no success with the sauces, I did not try the raw vice cream recipes, as those also use dates as the sweetener. The ingredients can be costly and throwing a bad batch of vice cream in the trash is not economical.

These are the recipes we tried and what we thought of them:

Vanilla Delight
-This wasn’t very vanilla-y, but a delight to eat anyway. Everyone liked it.

Chocolate Chip
-Oh my goodness! It just doesn’t get any better than this! It was our favorite by far. I just couldn’t stop eating it. I also made the Carob Chip variation of this recipe and it, too, was outstanding.

Peanut Butter
-My husband’s favorite. Even better with chocolate chips added to the mix.

Maple Walnut
-This is yummy over warm apple pie.

Pumpkin
-Imagine frozen pumpkin pie. Delicious!

Carob Sauce
-Yuck. There’s not much else I can say about it.

Blueberry Sauce
-The dates just took over the sauce and the blueberry flavor was nowhere to be found. We did not like it.

The vice cream recipes are fantastic, we loved them all, but the two sauces we tried were dismal failures and based on those failures I did not even attempt to make any of the raw vice cream recipes. But who needs sauce? Vice cream is fantastic all by itself! Or with pie, of course. Based on my experiences when making the recipes, I’m giving this book a 3.

VegPeople Rating:

3 forks out of 4

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