Strawberry Cheesecake Nondairy "Blizzard"

This evening Karl and I wanted a healthy dessert. While I was perusing my food blogs earlier last month, I came across a recipe for Strawberry Cheesecake Nondairy "Blizzard" and wanted to try it 1. because it was an "ice cream" recipe of sorts that didn't require an ice cream maker, and 2. because it was nondairy and gluten free.

Well tonight was finally the night!

I had to wait awhile to gather the ingredients, particularly the coconut milk ice cubes and the gluten free graham crackers:

Those are whales and fish on those cups.

These are delicious, by the way!

Here is how mine turned out:

**If you haven't already clicked on the link to the original recipe, you should do that because her pictures are well done**


Result/verdict:

They tasted good, probably because the ingredients tasted good, especially the graham crackers. They did, however, not maintain much of an ice creamy consistency. I blame my ice cubes:

The one on the left is my version of a coconut milk cube while the right is the size of a regular ice cube. Since I did not have an ice cube tray, I used small paper cups. As a result, my cubes were very large and took a long time for the food processor to break down. I think this ruined the consistency of the "ice cream" because the strawberries got pulverized while the processor was still working on these chunks. There was one chunk of coconut milk that Karl found in the middle of his dessert:

He powered through and ate it anyway, good man that he is!

Karl said he would eat it again and I say that I'll eat it again if someone else makes it...wink, wink, honey.

Seriously, though, there are not many dairy free, sans ice cream maker recipes for those of us who are also allergic to bananas, so for that reason, this idea deserves some more tries and tweaking.