After the
coconut milk had been made, I still had no inclination to get to “work”, and besides, I was technically in the middle of
home school. So while I listened to the girls reading, I made ice cream and macaroons.
The
ice cream was a big hit and super easy:
- 1 banana
- 1 cup of coconut milk
- as much vanilla essence as you like (or none at all – I used just shy of a teaspoon)
- honey (I used aboout 1.5 tablespoons, and found it rather sweet)
Blend everything well in a food processor, then freeze. This amount of mixture made six ice lollies, and froze reasonably fast. It was delicious but I think next time I will take it out of the freezer and beat it a couple of times to get the crystals out. If chocolate was allowed on the SCD I would
definitely dunk the ice lollies in melted chocolate. So much of nice.
The macaroons were less successful. I’ve made macaroons many times and while I’m no
Daniela, they’ve always been edible and in most cases people ask for more.
Not today.
I think I hadn’t squeezed enough coconut milk out of the coconut, and I also substituted honey for sugar, so almost immediately my light and fluffy egg whites swirled into slightly separated strangeness. I thought a tablespoon of macadamia nut butter would help to reconstitute the mass into something that would sort-of hold together, but that was a mistake and I knew that before I even opened the jar.
It wasn’t all bad, because after 20 minutes of baking, the macaroons began to resemble the correct consistency. I let them cool, scraped them into a bowl, and formed the lot into 9 little balls. Baking these yielded something … well … something. But it’s edible. And you don’t need a spoon.
I won’t post the recipe until I have one that works.
