Winter blues-berry ice cream

Sometimes you can’t help but daydream about those hot summer days where you’d be caught cooling off with a cold treat.

Well, fight those winter blues! You can enjoy this cold, healthy blueberry treat all year long.

Topped with frozen blueberries

Give your body the nutrients it needs during the day and eat blueberries to provide antioxidants.

I enjoy this blueberry ice cream recipe because it can be easily made and you don’t feel like you shouldn’t be eating it (unlike other fatty ice creams out there.)

Blueberries have many different functions in your body that help to keep you healthy. A list of several benefits to blueberries can be found on Health Online Zine.

Melly's Bellies' ingredients

Using Blender Babes' blueberry ice cream recipe that I found online, I decided to use almond milk because it is lactose-free (for those of you poor souls like me that are sensitive) and has less sugar in it. Almond milk is a healthy ingredient choice.

Only four simple ingredients and one touch of a button.

Melly's Bellies' Recommendations: 

1. When using your blender to crush the ingredients, I found allowing it to "pulse" worked to my advantage. By just clicking the "blend" or in my case, locking it down to mix with the NutriBullet, I found it just clogged up and did not move. So, lesson of the day: make that blender pulse and it will be sure to mix in smoothly.

2. If you use frozen blueberries you don't need much ice. It will be too much ice for the blender to handle and will water down flavours in the process.

3. Using vanilla-flavoured almond milk worked to my advantage by crossing one more ingredient off the list. If your milk is vanilla-flavoured there is no need for the vanilla extract the recipe calls for.

Melly's Bellies' version of blueberry ice cream recipe

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