Dairy-free Balsamic Roasted Cherry Ice Cream (NO-CHURN!)

This Balsamic Cherry Roasted Ice Cream is bursting with juicy roasted cherries enveloped in a creamy vanilla ice cream. With only 6 simple plant based ingredients, you can prepare a cool summer treat that will blow your taste buds away! Vegan, gluten free, dairy-free & nut free.

Cherry season has been poppin' this summer! I wanted to take advantage of the amazing price for a bag of these gems and make a dessert. I have been craving ice cream so much and remembered how much I loved cherry in my ice cream. 

Now I could have just pit, froze and blended them up with a couple bananas and called it a day but I didn't think it would do the plump sweet and tart cherries justice. I wanted to bring out the flavours more. Truth me told, I decided to choose balsamic as my umami flavour because I passed by an aisle where someone had accidentally dropped a bottle and I was surrounded by the smell.

I have seen fruits being roasted in balsamic and balsamic over some fruity salads so I had high hopes... and WHALA! Out of the freezer came a creamy dreamy ice cream bursting with robust flavours of cherry with a hint of umami. Yum. 

I hope you make this Balsamic Cherry Roasted Ice-cream & love it as much as I do because its:

• vegan friendly 
• gluten, nut & dairy free
• made with only 6 ingredients 
• healthy & refreshing
• packed with flavour 
• simple & easy to make
• amazingly smooth and creamy
• perfect for a summer treat

If you make this recipe please share it and let me know what you think by tagging me on Instagram @lisakitahara, I love seeing all of your tasty recreations!

Method

1. Pre heat oven to 450 F
2. Place whole cherries on a pan and roast for 15 minutes. Remove from oven, remove the seeds and toss in balsamic vinegar and place back into oven for additional 8-10 minutes. Let it cool and set aside.
3. In to a blender add in the coconut cream, frozen bananas, vanilla extract and maple syrup. Blend until smooth.
4. Pour in a bread loaf pan stirring in cooled roasted cherries.
5. Place that into the freezer mixing every 20 minutes for the first hour and then letting it freeze for at least 4 hours 

Ingredients

• 2 cups whole cherries
• 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar 
• ¼ PURE coconut cream or ½ c canned coconut cream*
• 3-4 frozen bananas
• 3 tablespoon maple syrup 
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract

Notes

• Prep Time: 15 minutes
• Oven time: 15-20 minutes
• Freezing time: 5-6 hours 
• Makes 4 servings 
• * I like to use the brand Grace for Pure Coconut Cream and Thai Kitchen or Aroy-D full fat canned coconut milk