Vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake [gluten-free + low-sugar]

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Updated on July 17, 2026
Posted on July 13, 2017
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Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert!

Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert!

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  1. It’s the perfect frozen treat for summer.
  2. It’s cool, creamy, sweet, and DELICIOUS.
  3. ICE CREAM is the main ingredient.
  4. It’s vegan AND gluten-free. (so although it’s dessert, it’s pretty much a superfood, right? ;) )
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Vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake

Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert!
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  • Author: Kaila Proulx
  • Prep Time: 70 mins
  • Total Time: 1 hour 10 mins
  • Yield: 9 slices
  • Category: Dessert

Ingredients

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  • For crust:
  • ¾ cup raw almonds
  • ¼ cup drippy almond butter
  • For ice cream layer:
  • 2 pints So Delicious Very Vanilla Cashew Milk Ice Cream, partially thawed so it’s more spreadable
  • For topping:
  • 2 tbsp cocoa powder
  • 2 tbsp maple syrup
  • 1 tbsp drippy almond butter
  • almond milk, to thin
  • mini chocolate chips

Instructions

  1. Pulse almonds in food processor until they are chopped, but before they become almond butter. In a bowl, mix almonds with almond butter. Place almond mixture on the bottom of an 8×8 square baking dish.
  2. Once your ice cream is a very spreadable texture, spread the entire two pints over the almond mixture. Place cake in freezer.
  3. In a small bowl, warm almond butter in the microwave for a few seconds so that it becomes runny (about 7-10 seconds). Whisk in cocoa powder and maple syrup until smooth.
  4. Remove cake from freezer and pour chocolate mixture over cake and spread. Sprinkle mini chocolate chips on top.
  5. Place pie back in the freezer for at least an hour. You want it to be very firm when cutting it.
  6. Serve cold and enjoy!
Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert! Made with So Delicious Creamy Vanilla Cashew Milk Ice Cream, this is NOT your traditional ice cream cake. It’s better. ;) A thick layer of creamy delicious non-dairy ice cream are surrounding by a raw, nut-based crust and a rich n’ chocolatey “magic shell” topping. Truly crave worthy components in every bite. The fact that this entire cake was gone in less than a day and a half should be ALL the evidence you need that you should be trying this cake ASAP. Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert! This is for sure my new favorite dessert. It would pair SO WELL with my Date-Sweetened Double Chocolate Brownies. Brownies AND cake?! Well who can turn that down! Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert! This will be a staple around my apartment all summer long. So easy to make…and SO delicious all thanks to So Delicious Non-Dairy Ice Cream. Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake | Healthy Helper @Healthy_Helper Creamy, dreamy, and delicious! This vegan Vanilla Almond Ice Cream Cake is everything you could want in a frozen treat for summer! Gluten- and grain-free, super easy to assemble, and made from whole food ingredients. You and your family will love slicing this beauty up and serving at your next meal for dessert!

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What’s your favorite frozen treat for summer? Do you prefer regular cake or ice cream cake? What’s your favorite flavor of ice cream?

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38 Comments

  4. This looks beyond delicious Kaila! I love the way you kept the crust unsweetened to temper the sweetness of the ice cream layer. And using almond butter with the almonds is genius!

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  10. These would be perfect for when my granddaughters are visiting as they first go to freezer looking for ice cream before they even say hello, lol. Pinning to my ice cream board. Visiting from Wonderful Wednesday party.

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  13. I just pinned this awesome Ice Cream Cake! Thanks so much for sharing your post with us at Full Plate Thursday this week. Hope you will come back and visit us again real soon!
    Miz Helen

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  20. I am making this on the weekend for my husband’s birthday on Tuesday and I can’t wait! It looks sooooo Good!!! Thank you 😊

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