That’s right. Ice cream that tastes like those frosted Mother’s Circus Animal cookies.
This is a restaurant remake from the same wonderful yogurt place, 21 Choices, that inspired my very first post, Blueberry Muffin Ice Cream! While I love the blueberry muffin flavor and made it early because they had it so infrequently, it was a rare treat, my favorite flavor of theirs was circus animal cookies.
21 Choices ground up those frosted circus animal cookies, rainbow sprinkles, and cookie dough into vanilla frozen yogurt. It was awesome!
Since it’s been close to a year since I turned vegan, that also means it’s been close to a year since I’ve had this frozen yogurt. I’m surprised my taste buds haven’t rebelled against such deprivation and ceased to function properly. Fortunately, my taste buds now would probably rebel against the sickeningly sweet original version, so I’ve toned it down a bit. It still gets the point across.
I took many a friend there, specifically picking a day when Circus Animals would be featured (yes, I received daily email alerts with the flavors of the day). I prepared my friends by describing this yogurt as tasting like “birthday cake and happiness,” which invariably got me a very strange look. (Don’t you hate it when people say crap like that? I do . . . usually.) But that strange look was invariably wiped off their faces and judgment for saying stupid stuff disappeared at the first bite. Birthday cake and happiness.
You can tell how excited I am about this recipe by how unnecessarily long my introduction for it is. 🙂
I apologize. Recipe. Instructions. Here:
serves 6
2 C unsweetened vanilla soy milk (or any non-dairy milk)
1 C plain soy creamer (you could also use 1 C full-fat canned coconut milk)
1 C vegan animal crackers
1/4 C rainbow sprinkles
1 t vanilla extract
Combine all ingredients in a blender – but let them sit together a few minutes before you blend. Let those animal crackers get all soft and blendable! Then blend.
Pour into ice cream maker. Or, if you don’t have one, you can just pour everything into a glass storage container, cover, and freeze. Before serving, blend in a food processor (but this is pretty tough unless you have a fancy high-powered blender). This also make a mind-bogglingly good milkshake, so if the texture gets icy, just blend with some non-dairy milk and slurp it up with a straw! Mmmmm.
Nutrition facts per serving: Calories: 139; Calories from Fat: 51; Total Fat: 5.6g; Saturated Fat: 0.6g; Sodium: 90mg; Total Carbohydrates: 17.3g; Dietary Fiber: 1.0g; Sugars: 10.4g; Protein: 3.8g
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