Feel Good Friday: Raw Berry Ice-Cream

“One must ask children and birds how cherries and strawberries taste.” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(Companion oil: Young Living Inner Child™)

Last week’s Feel Good Friday post on nurturing your inner child inspired quite a bit of correspondence.

If you missed it, you can get up to speed here.  It might not strike a chord for you personally, but could help someone you know.

Whether re-connecting with your inner child or it’s very much alive and well, I figure today we can take things for a walk on the lighter side with something that appeals to the little kid in all of us: ice-cream!

This recipe has plenty of raw goodness, so I vote we serve up its scoops in those fun mini waffle cones. (Life’s about balance.) And if you’re having a dinner party and keeping the tone a bit posh, I guarantee if you bring these out for dessert, they will bring out the smiles big time.

Raw Berry Ice-Cream (serves around a dozen mini cones)

• 150g raw cashews (soaked overnight then drained and rinsed)
• 125g mixed organic berries (include a heaped spoonful of soaked NingXia wolfberries if desired)
• 1 small peeled banana
• 10 fresh medjool dates, pitted
• 250mL almond or rice milk
• 60g melted coconut butter
• 80mL blue agave nectar or maple syrup (Young Living supplies a beautiful organic one)
• 1 tsp pure vanilla extract or the equivalent in vanilla bean paste
• grind of sea salt
• juice of ½ lemon (or substitute with the equivalent of Young Living NingXia Red® )
• Optional: a few drops of Young Living lemon, orange or tangerine essential oil *

Put all of the above into a food processor and blend until smooth.

If you have an ice-cream maker, churn and freeze according to its instructions.

If not — even more fun! We tackle it the retro way.

• Transfer to a 2 litre (around 65 oz) container (recycle your store-bought ice-cream containers for this) and place in the freezer
• Remove every 2 hours and ‘churn’ with a stick blender. Repeat this process for around 8 hours or until you like the texture
• Serve up in mini waffle cones: wrap the bottom of each with a small square of greaseproof paper and twist it at the point

* IMPORTANT CAUTION: Young Living essential oils are the only ones we would ever consider for ingestion. And only those which state on the bottle they can be used that way. Why? Because Young Living sets the standard for purity and authenticity – essential to the safe ingestion of essential oils appropriate for such use. Young Living carefully monitors the production of its oils from beginning to end through its unique Seed to Seal® process, ensuring the purity of each essential oil and protecting nature’s living energy in every bottle.

To jazz it up even more for a dinner party, put a square of decorative paper over the top of the square of greaseproof paper before twisting.  Put each cone into a small, pretty glass and carry to the table for ease of serving!

Enjoy the good oil daily.

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