Chico Caramel • Vegan (Deluxe)¶

🌿 Vegan & Dairy-free
Recipe is using only soy milk and protein isolate.

Not the lowest in calories, but rich in chocolate+caramel flavor.

Process on Lite Ice Cream, followed by a scrape-down with compaction and a respin.

Rating: 😋😋🍫🍫

Served with whipped cream and strawberry jam.

🔜 Flavor is good, but the texture was a bit dense, crumbly, and hard. The soy protein is halved, and VG increased.

Topping & mix-in options

• Walnuts (crumbled) or other nuts (chopped)

INGREDIENTS¶

ℹ️ Brand names are in square brackets [...].

Prep

• 150ml Water (boiling)
• 40g Cocoa Powder Organic 11% [Sevenhills]^↗

Wet

• 60g Chickpeas (organic) • can: 258/400g
• 40ml Aquafaba (chickpea liquid)
• 40g Medjool dates (pitted, organic) [Seba Garden] • 2 dates • distinctive caramel taste with hints of vanilla
• 200ml Soy milk 1.6% (sugar-free) [Berief]^↗
• 20g Glycerin (E422, VG) [hd-line]^↗ • Sweetness = 60%; GI = 5; Density = 1.26 g/ml
• 15g Brandy or Vodka 40 vol%^↗ • alternative: 12g (additional) vegetable glycerin for a sober recipe

Dry

• 10g Soy protein isolate (nature) [Powerstar]^↗ • 1kg bag, unsweetened, unflavored
• 33g SweEX (Erythritol + Xylitol 3:2)^↗ • alternative: 44g allulose or dextrose
• 2g Salt

Fill to MAX

• 70ml Soy milk 1.6% (sugar-free) [Berief]^↗ • fill to MAX line
• ≈6 drops Flavor drops Caramel (sucralose) [IronMaxx] • to taste

DIRECTIONS¶

1. Mix the boiling water with the cocoa powder to bloom it, then let it cool down.
2. Cut the dates into halves by their long side, and make sure they’re pitted and not spoiled.
3. In an empty Creami tub, blend the chickpeas, aquafaba, and dates first, to a smooth paste.
4. Then add the other ‘wet’ ingredients and the cocoa.
5. Weigh and mix dry ingredients, easiest by adding to a jar with a secure lid and shaking vigorously.
6. Pour into the tub and QUICKLY use an immersion blender on full speed to homogenize everything.
7. Add remaining ingredients (to the MAX line) and stir with a spoon.
8. Put on the lid, freeze for 24h, then spin as usual. Flatten any humps before that.
9. Process with RE-SPIN mode when not creamy enough after the first spin.

NUTRITIONAL & OTHER INFO¶

• Nutritional values per 100g/ml: 100g; 117.3 kcal; fat 1.4g; carbs 15.7g; sugar 4.1g; protein 4.8g; salt 0.4g
• Nutritional values per ½ Deluxe Tub: 340g; 399.0 kcal; fat 4.6g; carbs 53.2g; sugar 13.8g; protein 16.5g; salt 1.4g
• Nutritional values total: 680g; 798.0 kcal; fat 9.3g; carbs 106.5g; sugar 27.6g; protein 32.9g; salt 2.9g
• FPDF / PAC^↗ (target 20..30): 30.28
• Protein / Energy Ratio (ok=12%; hi=20%): 16.51% • LOW-FAT • Low-Sugar
• Milk Solids Non-Fat (MSNF^↗, 7-11%): 20.1g • 3.0%
• Net carbs: 63.5g • ∝ 5 servings@136g: 12.7g • ∝ 3 servings@227g: 21.2g • energy ratio (low <20%): 31.8%