Ask a Vegan Baker

When I was a kid in upstate NY we had a local dairy (Marble Farms) that made an ice cream called Peppermint Patty. It was pink, peppermint-flavored, and loaded with little bits of hard candy (kinda like tiny lollipops heads) of various colors. You know the iconic pink-frosted donut with with rainbow sprinkles on it (a.k.a. the Homer Simpson donut)? Well, Peppermint Patty was the ice cream equivalent of that! I think I always picked that flavor just because it was so pretty (but I also love peppermint). Anyhow, I would take a big lick of it and, after the ice cream mostly melted in my mouth, I'd crunch on the hard candy bits. I'd love to find a vegan version of that!

At the moment, I have in my freezer a pint of the Coconut Bliss brand Chocolate Peanut Butter "ice cream", which is pretty darn good!

I just bought Chocolate Cookie Crunch from Tofutti- sooo good! I crunched up some walnuts and almonds on it, and if I wasn't baking so much, I would have it for dessert, but I'm getting too much sugar from all the stuff I make :P

I go crazy for mango sorbet! I know it's technically not an ice cream, but it is so good!

My absolute fave is sticky toffee pudding ice cream (I need to work on veganizing that), but mint chocolate chip is always good. Or lychee sorbet *droool*

It has pieces of the cake and swirls of the sauce in a vanilla base. OMG, so good. Then again Sticky Toffee Pudding is my fave dessert. I have a few vegan recipes I found around the web, but I don't make it because I'll eat it all Maybe I need to invest in an ice cream attachment for my kitchenaid though