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Easy Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream

May 28, 2012 by Cara

Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream. We’ll get to you soon enough but first, this story:

There is a story of a woman running away from tigers. She runs and runs, and the tigers are getting closer and closer. When she comes to the edge of a cliff, she sees some vines there, so she climbs down and holds on to the vines.

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Make your own Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream in the comfort of your own home in the most simple way!

Looking down, she sees that there are tigers below her as well. She then notices that a mouse is gnawing away at the vine to which she is clinging. She also sees a beautiful little bunch of strawberries close to her, growing out of a clump of grass. She looks up and she looks down. She looks at the mouse. Then she just takes the strawberry, puts it in her mouth and enjoys it thoroughly.

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Tigers above, tigers below. This is actually the predicament that we are always in. Each moment is just what it is. It might be the only moment of our life, it might be the only strawberry we’ll ever eat. We could get depressed about it, or we could finally appreciate it and delight in the preciousness of every single moment of our life.

-“The Wisdom of No Escape”

Make your own Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream in the comfort of your own home in the most simple way! Here’s how you do it:

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Make your own Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream in the comfort of your own home in the most simple way!

Vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream

  • Author: Fork & Beans
  • Prep Time: 35 mins
  • Total Time: 35 mins
  • Yield: 1/2 pint 1x
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Ingredients

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  • 1/2 pint of non-dairy vanilla ice cream
  • 1/4 c. cocoa powder
  • 3 Tbsp. melted non-dairy chocolate, cooled
  • 1/4 c. Dandies marshmallows, chopped
  • 1/2 c. almonds, roughly chopped

Instructions

  1. Combine ice cream, cocoa powder and melted chocolate in a food processor until smooth and blended.
  2. Fold in marshmallows and chopped almonds. Re-freeze for 30 minutes.
  3. Yes, that is it.

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Tigers ablove, tigers below… heck, I’m going to eat homemade vegan Rocky Road Ice Cream.

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Filed Under: Copycat Treats, Dairy-Free, Desserts, Egg Free, Kid-Friendly, Vegan

About Cara

Based in Chicago with her husband and son, Cara is the creator behind the site Fork and Beans: A place where kids can have fun with their food.

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  1. Cadry's Kitchen

    May 30, 2012 at 8:34 pm

    So true! We might as well enjoy this precious moment since it’s the only one we’re promised!

  2. Courtney :)

    May 29, 2012 at 8:28 pm

    Awe, what a lovely, thought-provoking tale. It is so very true. I needed to be reminded of that as of late.

    And if that sentiment does not help me feel better, I guarantee a scoop of this ice cream would! *hehe* 🙂

    Sending you lots of hugs!

  3. Heather

    May 29, 2012 at 9:08 am

    I always feel so enlightened when I come visit you; I would have probably eaten more than just one berry 🙂

    Rocky Road Icecream brings back so many memories, this is my aunts favorite ice cream – she would always bring us for cones and we would get the rocky road…mmmm I could totally go for one of these today!

  4. Anonymous Burn

    May 29, 2012 at 6:13 am

    So perfect and true. I took Caroline and Aidan to meet my mama for her birthday yesterday. On the way home, Caroline said how good a person she seems and again I found myself angry at some unknown being for altering the course of my life and taking that woman’s children from her for 30 years. It’s hard not to wish away my life and imagine how different it could be growing up with hugs and kisses and “I love you”s every day. Alas, it would have been different and *that* life would not have been perfect either. I have this life and no other. I can not change the past only grab the present and make it count.

    Here’s to making our todays count, Cara.

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:21 am

      There will always be tigers, right? 😉 Your life is perfect just as it is and for some strange cosmic reason it was supposed to happen this way. You are so right. Wishing you tons of strawberries today. xo!

  5. Willow

    May 29, 2012 at 5:58 am

    Brilliant post, Cara! I love, love, love this. The ice cream, and the sentiment. 🙂

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:21 am

      Thanks Willow!! xo

  6. Kristy

    May 29, 2012 at 12:06 am

    That story is such a good reminder- thank you for keeping me in check. And for tempting me on a warm day with icy treats! 🙂

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:22 am

      I will have to bring some in person when I see you next…

  7. GiGi

    May 28, 2012 at 8:09 pm

    PS just so I understand the parable clearly, it is better to eat a strawberry or a red vine than a mouse? Right?

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:24 am

      I think you are supposed to release tigers from their cages at the zoo, then challenge a mouse to a staring contest, then eat a strawberry, then have a good day?

  8. GiGi

    May 28, 2012 at 8:08 pm

    Dandies come in handy! I wish I had some to go with my strawberries for dessert. I have such a fond memory of my Aunt Elaine and Uncle Joe taking my sister and me out for Chinese Food and then rocky road ice cream after. (my mom and drank dessert so we were amazed that dessert could have all these amazing flavors withour being 100 proof) Thanks for the beautiful pics.

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:25 am

      Were these some of the memories you had to hash out during your years in the clink? 😉 You seriously crack me up…

      • GiGi

        May 29, 2012 at 7:51 am

        yes, indeed. 🙂

  9. Richa@HobbyandMore

    May 28, 2012 at 7:34 pm

    holy delicousness dippity dip.. i need some of this rocky road right now!.. just got back from the beach.. the water is still cold, but hey the sun was out and hubbs was learning to skateboard.. yeah mid life shenanigans.. i am waiting for my mom in law to call me and tell me to go hide the thing:)

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:27 am

      HAHA! It’s never too late to learn how to ride a skateboard. I remember trying to learn back when I was in my 20s but when I landed in the 1/2 splits position, ripping the knee in my jeans, I kinda knew I was hopeless at it. Hopefully husband is wearing a helmet 🙂 Feed him some ice cream to distract him…

  10. Lou Dwan

    May 28, 2012 at 4:33 pm

    YUMMO. Love me some rocky road. Silly tigers.

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:28 am

      And I love me some YUMMO 🙂

  11. Gabby @ the veggie nook

    May 28, 2012 at 11:32 am

    What a beautiful story, thanks for sharing! I was sad at first, but then I smiled when she chose to enjoy a moment of simple pure happiness as her final moment 🙂

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:29 am

      I love how it is the predicament of all of our lives. There is always something we can choose to be upset about OR we can find the good in the moment. xo!

  12. Lizzie

    May 28, 2012 at 10:50 am

    I cannot explain why, but somehow that little story is EXACTLY what I needed to read at this exact moment, and I am sitting here at my computer with tears in my eyes. Thanks for the perfect lesson for today. XOXOX

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:31 am

      Ohmygosh, you are going to make ME cry just hearing that this was exactly what you needed to hear. I love how the Universe does that. May you find your strawberry today Lizzie 🙂 xo

  13. frugalfeeding

    May 28, 2012 at 9:23 am

    That’s WAY too deep for me, Cara :D. Haha, no I get it really. This ice cream looks like it’s waiting for me to devour it…

    • frugalfeeding

      May 29, 2012 at 1:40 am

      P.S. My blog has a facebook page now! Our blogs can be friends.

      • Cara

        May 29, 2012 at 7:36 am

        We are so social media friends now, it’s sickening.

    • Cara

      May 29, 2012 at 7:32 am

      Ha! I’m hoping this means that I have a thing or 2 to teach you and that you really don’t know everything as your presume 🙂 Now hurry up, your ice cream is melting!

  14. Laurel

    May 28, 2012 at 8:05 am

    I think I need a care package. Will you send me a brace of tigers please?

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 8:17 am

      How about I opt for some strawberries for you to enjoy instead??? xo Hi friend–always have you on my mind. xo

      • frugalfeeding

        May 29, 2012 at 1:39 am

        That seems the safer option…

        • Cara

          May 29, 2012 at 7:33 am

          Or Laurel, I will ship Nick to you so the 2 of you can battle it out with your fancy vocabularies…

  15. Brooke (Crackers on the Couch)

    May 28, 2012 at 7:49 am

    Unfortunately, I’ve been living like this a lot lately. And the strawberry is filled with cream cheese and dipped in chocolate with cookie sprinkled on it and it’s about the size of Rhode Island.

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:49 am

      I want your life… 🙂

      • Brooke (Crackers on the Couch)

        May 28, 2012 at 8:42 am

        But not my waistline, honey…

        • Cara

          May 29, 2012 at 7:34 am

          Uh, you said that you are eating strawberries dipped in cream cheese and chocolate and cookies. Sounds like a beautiful waistline to me!

          • Brooke (Crackers on the Couch)

            May 29, 2012 at 9:47 am

            “Rubenesque” is the word I believe…

  16. Shira

    May 28, 2012 at 7:35 am

    An apt analogy and a gorgeous dessert! Happy Monday Cara, hope you had a great weekend! 🙂

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:50 am

      Happy Monday, Shira! Hope you are well, my friend. xoxo

      • frugalfeeding

        May 28, 2012 at 9:24 am

        How polite of you both :D.

        • Cara

          May 29, 2012 at 7:35 am

          I love how you are butting into all of my conversations. haha. I am so returning the favor now…

  17. glutenfreehappytummy

    May 28, 2012 at 7:30 am

    I love that story. and its so true — we all have our “tiger moments” whether it be job, friend, school, or health related. and sometimes the best way to deal is to just live in the moment and let come what may. Such a great reminder to start off the week. thank you. and your RR ice cream looks magnificent!! YUMMMMM!

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:56 am

      It’s funny because I catch myself saying, “Well if this was different then it would be better” but this story always brings it back to me that there will always be something. And at times, it will be over-consuming yet even there, I still have the choice to enjoy the moment. Absolutely brilliant and easier said than done, right?
      xoxo!!

  18. Abby

    May 28, 2012 at 4:56 am

    Great parable and reminder, as always.
    And oddly enough, marshmallows are a “food” that I have never, ever understood. They’ve always seemed unnecessary to me, and even though they make vegan versions, I’ve never had an interest.
    However, your pictures are so beautiful that I might just pick them out of that cone and eat around them. After all, there will always be Tigers and nothing’s perfect, right? 😉

    • Abby

      May 28, 2012 at 4:56 am

      P.S. Sorry. I realized I capitalized “Tigers,” simply because I’m a huge baseball nut and live in Michigan. Disregard that part 😉

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:51 am

      How about I just make you an Abby Special that has no marshmallows in them already? See! The care is oozing from my pores…

      • Cara

        May 28, 2012 at 7:54 am

        I think I can live with the fact that you are a Tigers fan. I mean, after all, most have to overlook my Angels love, so really, we are even…

  19. Caitlin

    May 28, 2012 at 4:27 am

    what a lovely tale. i love hearing those types of fables that make me re-evaluate life and how i handle situations. i could particularly use a little perspective right now, actually…..

    rocky road was always MY favorite. it’s got everything a lady could ever want- chocolate, marshmallows, and nuts. i love how your icecream is speckled, too! looks amazing 😉

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:52 am

      The speckle was a mistake but hey, I decided to embrace it and just go with it. That was me, attempting to enjoy my strawberry 🙂 Here’s to plenty of perspective today…

  20. lucylox

    May 28, 2012 at 3:39 am

    this I have to try with my newly found vegan marshmallows – at last ice cream that isn’t just a basic flavour!

    • Cara

      May 28, 2012 at 7:53 am

      Absolutely not! The possibilities are endless from here… Did you find Dandies?

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