Drunken Cherry Coconut Ice Cream with Dark Chocolate and Toasted Pecans Recipe

Created by Kristin Hoffman, of Lawrence, KS. Our 2012 Great American Ice Cream Challenge 3rd place!

  • Easy
  • 4 servings
Ingredients
  • 2 cups cherries, pitted (if you don’t have a cherry pitter, hammer a clean nail into a piece of wood and push the cherry over the top of the nail pushing the pit out)
  • spiced rum
  • 1 can full fat coconut milk
  • 1 cup almond milk (or other milk of choice, can also use more coconut milk)
  • 1 tbsp arrowroot powder (or cornstarch)
  • 1/4 cup agave (or other sweetener or choice)
  • 3.5 ounces of dark chocolate, roughly chopped
  • 1/2 cup chopped pecans, toasted
  • 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
Uses
Directions
  1. Place one cup of the cherries in a small bowl and pour in enough spiced rum to cover the cherries. Soak for at least 4 hours and up to overnight.
  2. Drain the cherries through a strainer. (I reserved the rum for a cherry infused cocktail!)
  3. Roughly chop the remaining 1 cup of cherries.
  4. Place the soaked cherries, coconut milk, almond milk, vanilla extract, arrowroot, and agave in a blender and blend until combined.
  5. Mix in the chopped cherries, dark chocolate and pecans.
  6. Freeze in an ice cream maker according to manufactures instructions.
  7. If you do not have an ice cream maker, place in the freezer and stir vigorously about every hour for 6 hours.