This easy pumpkin pie spice keto ice cream has just 5 simple ingredients for a delicious dessert for the fall season!
Sugar Free Pumpkin Ice Cream
Pumpkin season has arrived though it's just early fall, but regardless the time of year, this delicious pumpkin ice cream is a guilt-free dessert for your sweet tooth!
This creamy pumpkin ice cream has so much pumpkin flavor and takes just a few minutes to come together! It's got an amazing creamy texture for a no churn ice cream made in a Ninja Creami ice cream maker.
If you don't have a Ninja Creami machine, no worries! Just blend up the ice cream mixture and pour into an airtight container and freeze about 6-8 hours for a soft serve consistency.
Even though this homemade pumpkin ice cream doesn't have eggs like traditional ice cream does, it still has the consistency of the ice cream texture we know and love!
The best part, since it doesn't contain eggs, you can easily taste and adjust your choice of sweetener to meet your needs. It's a perfect treat if you're following a keto diet, low-carb diet, or sugar free diet or low sugar diet.
Ninja Creami Machine versus Traditional Ice Cream Machine
There are pros and cons to using a Ninja Creami versus a traditional ice cream machine.
You can achieve a creamy consistency with either but depending on your time, one will work better for you than the other.
Ninja Creami Pros
No eggs needed for creamy ice cream
You can make lite ice cream and high protein ice cream with very little fat.
You don't need to have a frozen bowl to make ice cream.
You can make a single serve recipe.
It's a small appliance.
The Ninja Creami community online has incredible ice cream recipes!
Ninja Creami Cons
You can't eat the ice cream right away.
You will need to buy specific pint containers.
Re-freezing leftover ice cream doesn't work well.
You can't make more than four servings that doesn't go past the max fill line.
Traditional Ice Cream Machine Pros
You can enjoy ice cream right away.
You get a perfectly creamy consistency every time.
You can make a large batch of ice cream with multiple servings.
You can purchase an attachment bowl and paddle for a Kitchenaid mixer.
Traditional Ice Cream Machine Cons
It's a large kitchen appliance.
The bowl of the machine needs to be frozen before churning ice cream which takes at least 24 hours.
You can't make a single serving ice cream recipe.
Can I swap the heavy cream?
Yes, you can make a simple swap of the heavy cream with coconut milk or whole milk or cashew milk, if you prefer. This will change the nutritional information you see in the recipe card at the bottom of this page.
Can I swap the cottage cheese?
You can swap the cottage cheese with ricotta cheese for about the same amount of protein but it will add more carbs and fat.
While this isn't a dairy free recipe for dairy-free options I would recommend vegan cream cheese or vegan yogurt and using coconut milk or coconut cream to replace heavy cream.
What can I make with Leftover Pumpkin Puree?
I've got a bunch of pumpkin recipes you can use the leftover canned pumpkin puree for.
Sugar Free Pumpkin Spice Latte
Keto Pumpkin Ice Cream with egg yolks. This keto ice cream recipe is a churn recipe.
90 second Keto Pumpkin English Muffin
Can I use a different sweetener?
If you don't want to purchase the pumpkin spice flavor liquid stevia as I used for this recipe, this Monk Fruit sweetener would also work well.
I would avoid using any granulated sweetener that contains erythritol which will make the ice cream form ice crystals when frozen.
More Ninja Creami Recipes
Sugar Free Keto Vanilla Protein Ice Cream
Sugar Free Keto Tiramisu Ice Cream
Ninja Creami Pumpkin Ice Cream Recipe
Sugar Free Keto Pumpkin Ninja Creami Ice Cream
Ingredients
- ½ cup heavy cream
- ½ cup cottage cheese
- ½ cup pure pumpkin puree (not pumpkin pie filling)
- ¼ teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
- 1 teaspoon Pumpkin liquid stevia or to taste
- pinch salt
- optional: vanilla extract, ground cinnamon
Instructions
Ninja Creami
- Add all ingredients into a blender and blend on low until just combined. You can also just make the ice cream base in a large mixing bowl using a whisk or electric hand mixer or immersion blender. Taste for sweetness before pouring mixture into your ninja creami freezer container.
- If you don't have a Ninja Creami unit, just pour into an airtight container and freeze for 6-8 hours for soft serve.
- Pour ice cream base into Ninja Creami container and freeze for 18- 20 hours or until frozen. Freeze for just 8-10 hours for soft serve.
- Place frozen pint container into the base or the outer bowl of the Ninja Creami machine, cover and press Ice Cream button. Remove and add the 1 tablespoon of almond milk or heavy cream. Press Re-spin button. Remove the entire pint of ice cream and enjoy, half or the whole serving.
Ice Cream Machine
- Add all ingredients into a blender and blend on low until just combined. Taste for sweetness before pouring mixture into an ice cream machine and follow manufacturer's instructions. Enjoy immediately.
Notes
Nutrition
About Brenda
Brenda Bennett is a certified Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, certified Sugar Detox Coach, certified Keto Coach and certified Life Coach. She has been Sugar Free & Refined carb free for 17 years and has written 2 cookbooks, Sugar-Free Mom, and Naturally Keto and her 3rd book The 30-Day Sugar Elimination Diet, is a four part program to help you detox from sugar, eliminate cravings, balance blood sugar and lose weight all while eating a delicious, nutrient dense whole foods. Meal plan offers two tracks to follow, low carb or keto. She is the founder of the Sugar Free Fresh Start course and Sugar Free Tribe weight loss membership. Learn more.
Jerry
can I exchange coconut cream for the coconut butter? Thanks