Last updated on June 30, 2024
We are Italians and we have collected our 35 most original vegan ice cream recipes in a practical cookbook. Without whipping cream, milk, eggs or other products of animal origin. Easy and delicious 👍
For those who don't have to bother a cow
to enjoy a delicious ice cream
Homemade Italian ice cream is tasty, but many people ask us how to make it without milk, whipping cream or eggs. It is certainly possible and it is just as delicious!
We have collected our 35 most original recipes in a vegan ice cream recipe book, available in e-book or paperback format.
Italian ice cream, both the one from the ice cream shop and the one you make at home, contains a certain amount of fats and proteins that make it soft and creamy.
But the fats and proteins in ice cream do not necessarily have to be of animal origin: so we can use a wide variety of ingredients to recreate traditional flavors, or to create new ones.
Many vegan recipes replace whipped cream with coconut milk, which is high in fat. But this way all ice creams get a coconut aftertaste, which is more or less pleasant depending on the recipe.
The first recipe in our book is therefore a completely neutral flavor, which we call vegan Fiordilatte. Fiordilatte is the basic white Italian gelato flavor, and the ice cream we make with soya drink is similar in color and taste.
Based on this ice cream, we can then also create traditional flavors such as chocolate, cinnamon of vanilla ice cream.
In our recipes we also use other ingredients rich in fats and proteins, such as pistachios, hazelnuts, almonds, peanuts, avocado, and vegetable oils.
Our goal is to make an equally creamy gelato, but without using dairy products or eggs. Just as tasty and with exactly the same texture as traditional ice cream.
The Italian words of this page:
| 🔊 Gelato | Ice cream |
| 🔊 Vegano | Vegan |
| 🔊 Gelato vegano | Vegan ice cream |
| 🔊 Ricettario | Recipe book |
Vegan Base recipe with soya drink.
A creamy gelato with a neutral taste, made with soya drink. This recipe is the basis of many other vegan flavors.
With silken tofu.
Ice cream made with tofu gets a strong soya flavor, to which we add vanilla pods.
With soya drink and cinnamon powder
Our original vegan ice cream recipe flavored with cinnamon sticks.
With soya drink and fresh ginger
In Italian it is called «zenzero», and it is also the name of an ice cream parlor in my hometown, where this flavor is simply delicious. We recreate it with soya milk flavored with fresh ginger.
With soya drink and mint leaves
«Latte e menta», milk and mint, is a traditional drink that is still very popular in Italy. We keep the tradition alive with this creamy gelato flavored with fresh mint leaves.
With soya drink and licorice sticks
An ice cream flavored with licorice sticks, for a delicate and sweet flavor.
With soya drink and espresso coffee
In Italy we love the «Coppa del Nonno», the «grandfather's cup», a
delicious coffee ice cream of which we make here the vegan version
Flavored with lemon zest
We melt a bar of dark vegan chocolate and season it with edible lemon peel.
With chocolate, hazelnuts and agave syrup
«Baci» (kisses) are chocolates with hazelnuts and cocoa popular in Italy. We make a vegan version with oat drink, dark chocolate and hazelnuts
With coconut milk
Mango and coconut flavors go well together; so we make an alternative version of mango ice cream, with coconut milk
With coconut milk
Pineapple («Ananas» in Italian) and coconut flavors go well together; so we make an alternative version of pineapple ice cream, with coconut milk.
Lemon sorbet ice cream, which we enjoy in Italy during events with Scroppino, is traditionally made with egg whites. This is our original, completely vegan version.
With soya drink
One of our most popular ice creams made in a vegan version, flavored with lemon peel and limoncello. Not too much though, because alcohol also makes the ice cream more fluid.
With almond drink
hanks to the proteins and fats of dried fruit, we make a vegan ice cream with an intense pistachio flavor.
With just water and sugar
Both pistachio and avocado are a great base ingredient for vegan gelato. In this recipe we combine them together for a pistachio ice cream with fewer calories.
We regularly update our pages with new ice Italian cream recipes: tasty and healthy gelato flavors that you can make at home.
I am Italian from Trentino. I studied philosophy in Padua and worked for many years between Milan and Amsterdam in the field of media and culture.
Since 2021 I write on All Italian to practice foreign languages; meanwhile I share with you the customs and traditions of my country, and the recipes that I prepare at home.