Raspberry Elderflower Ice Cream with Cocoa Butter

Let’s talk kitchen appliances for a minute. Personally I think I don’t own that many. I don’t have a stand mixer, no bread machine and no air fryer. And that is fine. But I cannot live without my ice cream machine! During summer I use it all the time. For example to make this delicious Raspberry Elderflower Ice Cream with Cocoa Butter. If you don’t have an ice cream maker though, there are ways to make your own ice cream, too. I have linked to a method before. But there’s tons of information about this on the internet.

For this ice cream I threw together some leftover ingredients that I had in the freezer. A bunch of soaked cashews that I wanted to use for a pasta sauce. Some almond cream cheese that needed to be used up. Leftover oat milk that was threatening to go bad. Cocoa butter that had been sitting in the fridge for a very long time. And a bottle of elderflower syrup that atmittedly was storebought. (I like to look at all the lovely pictures of people making this syrup on Instagram. But I am much too lazy to make some myself. I will make waffles with elderflowers though. )

Adding the cocoa butter was an interesting experience. I used an unrefined kind, which means, it has a very strong cocoa bean flavour. In my opinion that goes very well with raspberries. But some people in my family weren’t very fond of this combination. If you have reservations you can switch out the fat (see below). The cocoa butter overpowers the elderflower flavour quite a bit, so if you want more of that, you should use a refined coconut butter.

Of course you have room for substitutions! If you don’t have cocoa butter, you can use coconut oil or even coconut cream (although that will change the taste quite a bit!). Instead of almond cream cheese, you can use any other cream cheese and instead of elderflower syrup, you can use a different sweetener.