Pina Colada Ice Cream
It’s ICE CREAM season people! ICE CREAM season!!
Yes, I am screaming. Only because it is the best season EVER. Especially when it combines with berry season but we will get to blending the two soon. We are starting ice cream season with this Pina Colada ice cream!! It’s just fitting right?? And when I say we are starting, I mean expect a LOT more homemade ice cream from this lady, thanks to this recently acquired KitchenAid ice cream bowl.
Creamy coconut ice cream with fresh pineapple puree (or chunks) and some more toasted coconut flakes makes this dairy-free ice cream any coconut lover’s dream. Like these are the things that my dreams are made of 🙂
And I have some really strange dreams these days. I think raging pregnancy hormones do this to people and it’s ridiculously funny when you wake up and realize it was all a dream and no haunted forests exist in the real world or snakes climbing up your legs. But on the bright side, you get to eat a scoop of pina colada ice cream at 4am (insomnia is real) and pat the bump thinking “oh baby boy, how I love what you are doing to me!”
The only thing this ice cream is missing is rum but I couldn’t put it in mine. I beg you to please add some good rum to your pina colada ice cream. You will have all the fun I am missing out on.
Happy Friday!
Pina Colada Ice Cream
Ingredients
- 1 can coconut milk (13.5 ounces)
- 1 can coconut cream (15 ounces)
- 1/3 – ½ cup granulated sugar (more to taste)
- ¼ cup pineapple juice
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract or vanilla bean paste
- ½ cup diced pineapples, pureed
- 1/4 cup rum (optional)
- toasted coconut flakes, to serve
Instructions
- Whisk together the coconut milk, cream, and sugar in a large bowl. Whisk for 2-3 minutes on low speed until sugar is dissolved. Stir in the pineapple juice, vanilla extract, and pureed pineapples.
- Chill mixture for at least 2- 2 1/2 hours (or overnight).
- Turn on your ice cream machine. Pour chilled mixture into the freezer bowl and let mix until thickened about 25-30 minutes. If using rum, add in now and let churn for 2-3 more minutes.
- Transfer soft ice cream to a freezer-safe bowl and freeze for an additional 2 hours to ripen.
- Serve with toasted coconut flakes.
Notes
- You can use Cream of Coconut as well. https://amzn.to/3h1WFiO
Recommended Products
As an Amazon Associate and member of other affiliate programs, I earn from qualifying purchases.
Horchata Ice Cream – Love and Olive Oil
Homemade Strawberry Ice Cream – Grandbaby Cakes
Fresh Lemon Ice Cream – The Kitchen McCabe
2-2 hours is wrtten in the instructions. Do you mean 2-2 1/2 hours, or overnite?
Yes, 2 – 2 1/2 hours.
Hi! I see that the recipe calls for coconut cream, but in one of your comments you said cream of coconut. Which did you use for the recipe? Thanks!
Hi Maddy, I used coconut cream. but you can use cream of coconut too. I will link to the one I used in the recipe.
Thank you for sharing this recipe! It made for a very refreshing treat. 🙂
Can you do this without am ice cream machine?
Unfortunately, no for this recipe.
This was delicious! Mine ended up with a bit of an icy texture. Did you have this problem? Any tips?
Thanks!
Hi Sarah, I am glad to hear yours was delicious. Mine wasn’t icy but seemed creamier. Could it be a freezing machine issue? Or maybe the coconut milk? Did you use full fat coconut milk? I think it will be creamier if you used full fat coconut milk and the cream of coconut as well.
woooooo ice cream season! i love how this really rings in summer with the tropical flavors!
Wooooo is the right response 🙂
I always scream for ice cream, especially a nice boozy one! This looks delicious, Zainab, and soon after that baby boy is born you can have the rum, too. lol And I totally remember the crazy dreams! 🙂
The boozy ones are always the best!!
This is definitely the ice cream of my dreams! Love the tropical flavors! Eeks, hopefully you can get in some more restful nights of sleep before baby arrives.
Thanks Kelly!! And I am taking the insomnia as nature’s way of preparing my body.