Vanilla Bean Ice Cream [coconut-milk free]

Canned coconut milk is our favorite base for making dairy-free ice cream due to its full texture and neutral vanilla flavor. This recipe is our creamy coconut-free base for anyone looking for an alternative. It contains more ingredients to create a similar rich, smooth, and crave-worthy texture. It has more caramel notes and is darker […]

Creamy Quinoa & Kale Salad

This is a classic recipe—one of the first our GFCS founder ever shared online a bazillion internet years ago (2009). A version of it also made it into her first book YumUniverse. This updated recipe includes new variations, techniques, and tips with all the same great flavor that has made it a fan favorite for […]

Hot Fudge Sauce

The perfect decadent topping for scoops and sundaes of ice cream, pies, and cakes. Eating it by the spoonful is alright with us, too.

Peanut Butter “Magic Shell”

A nostalgic, delicious topping for ice cream cones, simple scoops, and sundaes—designed to pour on and delight in as is hardens into a tasty shell. It’s perfectly peanut-y, salty, and sweet to compliment myriad flavors like Vanilla Bean, Strawberry Swirl, Dark Chocolate, and Cookie Dough ice creams.

Strawberry Sauce

This simple, fruity, and sweet sauce is delicious with ice cream, parfaits, cake, puddings, and pancakes.

Dark Chocolate Ice Cream

This creamy dark chocolate ice cream is amazing on its own, but also shines when served with sweet sauces of all kinds. We recommend some over a warm Classic Brownie. Try also folding in some Peanut Butter “Magic Shell” before freezing, too. Our secret ingredients for deep, dark, chocolate flavor in this recipe? Cacao butter […]

Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream

This is a classic Mint Chip Ice Cream made by chopping a Dark Chocolate Bar very finely until we get shavings—they are so delicate and delicious in the final result. If you’re a big chocolate chunk lover, by all means chop that bar as you like!

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream [honey sweetened]

This recipe can be enjoyed solo, or used as a base for myriad flavors. It’s a lightly honey sweetened version of our sweeter, more conventional cane-sugar Vanilla Bean Ice Cream. This vanilla-bean base is bright white to provide higher visual contrast with colorful fold ins that are complimented by a mild honey flavor. You can […]

Vanilla Bean Ice Cream [sugar-free]

This recipe is a sugar-free version of our honey sweetened Vanilla Bean Ice Cream—we make this one with monkfruit sweetener. It can be enjoyed solo, or used as a base for myriad flavors. Its bright white color provides high visual contrast with colorful fold ins like cake, sprinkles, cookie dough, and strawberries.  

Orange Ice Cream

The nostalgic combination of juicy orange with creamy vanilla—of the flavors your favorite childhood popsicle as ice cream!