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When his wife bought an ice cream maker, the writer at Low Carb Confidential wanted to know, Can You Make Ice Cream With Atkins Shakes?.

Despite the warning on the shakes, he decided to give it a go. Unfortunately, it ended up a chunky mess.

Ironically, making low carb ice cream is pretty easy. There are a bunch of recipes on the Low Carb Friends forum. Here are a couple of my favorites.

Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1/3 cup half-and-half
• 1/4 cup Splenda
• 1/4 cup + 1 Tbsp Atkins chocolate syrup
• dash salt

Mix all thoroughly and put it into your ice cream maker. Turn on and watch for about 25 minutes – it should slow to a halt when it’s thick enough. You can easily double the recipe if you’d like.

Makes 2 servings 4g carbs per serving

French Vanilla Ice Cream Recipe

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup heavy cream
• 1/2 cup half-and-half
• 1/2 cup Splenda
• 1/4 cup ice cold water
• 1 tsp vanilla
• 1 egg
• dash salt

Mix all thoroughly. Cook in a saucepan over low heat. This won’t thicken as much as a sugar-based custard will, but it will thicken so stir regularly. Cook 15-20 minutes until medium thick. Now put it in the fridge to cool down for at least an hour. Put the mix into your ice cream maker. Turn on and watch for about 25 minutes – it should slow to a halt when it’s thick enough.

Makes 2 servings 3g carbs per serving

Strawberry Ice Cream

Ingredients:

• 1 1/2 cup whipping cream
• 1 cup half and half
• 1/4 cup water
• 1/2 cup strawberry juice/puree
• 7/8 cup Splenda
• 1/2 cup coarsely chopped strawberries

Place a handful of strawberries in a blender or food processor to create the strawberry juice/puree. Mix the first 5 ingredients and add to machine, add the coarse strawberries once the mix has started to firm up.

If the mix is not solidifying, add 1 tsp of water and mix it in well with a rubber spatula, make your own determination of how to safely do this with the type of ice cream maker you have.

Strawberries are 1.8g / 4oz serving, in case you use some for decoration or consumption on the side

Makes 4 servings 3.5g carbs per serving

There are lots more recipes here:

• Low Carb Friends forum – Ice Cream Recipes

Be careful, though, some of those recipes use ingredients from Atkins products (like low carb peanut butter cups) and the carb measurements might not be accurate because they are using the Net Carbs.