It’s easier than you think to make vegan ice cream (Picture: Getty)

National Ice Cream Day is celebrated each year on the third Sunday of July.

This year that falls today, Sunday, July 16, and we can only but imagine that people all over the world are celebrating by tucking into a large scoop or three of vanilla.

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But what about vegans? All that cream and milk that goes into ice cream makes it very much a non-vegan friendly treat.

Luckily for vegans, or those who need to eat dairy free, it’s more than possible to make delicious and even healthy, if that’s what you’re looking for, vegan ice cream.




Here are 12 vegan ice cream recipes to celebrate National Ice Cream Day:

1. Banana and peanut butter ice cream

By Yumsome

2. Cherry almond coconut milk ice cream

By Gluten Free Alchemist

3. Sea salt caramel ice cream

By Minimalist Baker

4. Mango, rose and cinnamon sorbet

By Tinned Tomatoes

5. Pina colada nice cream

6. Blueberry coconut ice cream

By Wallflower Kitchen

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7. Two ingredient ice cream

By Intolerant Gourmand

8. Chocolate ice cream

By Minimalist Baker

9. Tropical sorbet

By Gluten Free Alchemist

10. Strawberry shortbread ice cream

By Wallflower Kitchen

11. Neapolitan ice cream cake

By The Greedy Vegan

12. Chocolate avocado ice cream

By Intolerant Gourmand

Mandy Mazliah is a vegetarian mum of three whose kids don’t eat vegetables. Read about her efforts to get them to eat their five a day at www.sneakyveg.com.

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