Low Carb Yellow Cake Ice Cream with Chocolate Buttercream Frosting Bombs

This is a variation of my previous Low Carb Cake Batter Ice Cream with Frosting Bombs. That one was white cake flavoring with shortening-based frosting. This time I decided to do a yellow cake with chocolate buttercream frosting.

What diet should I follow?

A tweet of mine regarding the paleo diet got retweeted quite a bit:

What got much less notoriety was the tweet that I submitted immediately after that one:

That second tweet puts the first into context but went mostly unseen. I suppose a blog post is in order to better clarify what I meant by both.

Low Carb “AmeriCone Dream” Ice Cream

I’ve reworked quite a few Ben & Jerry’s ice cream flavors to eliminate added sugars. Since I can now make low carb ice cream cones, the Steven Colbert inspired “AmeriCone Dream” is a low carb reality.

Low Carb New York Cheesecake Ice Cream

Cream cheese is an often recommended ingredient in low carb cooking, so it seems like a no-brainer for a low carb ice cream recipe. As a matter of fact, Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams are known for using cream cheese in their sweet cream ice cream base to add body to the finished product. Seems like a match made in heaven, right? Unfortunately, I believe cream cheese stalls my weight loss, so I don’t indulge in it anymore. Besides, raw cream cheese alone does not a cheesecake flavor make. Instead, I’m using yet another flavoring from LorAnn Oils. It creates a full-bodied cheesecake aroma and flavor that would be difficult to match.

Some miscellaneous experiments with ice cream flavors: salted caramel, bubble gum, and more.

I’ve been experimenting with some of the ice cream flavorings from LorAnn Oils recently. I tried their Butter Pecan, Salted Caramel, Bubble Gum, and Caramel Delight. There’s no need to provide an in-depth recipe since it’s simply a sweet cream base plus a tablespoon of flavoring.