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Banana Ice Cream
Quick, easy, healthy, and an amazing snack or dessert. It's naturally sweet and creamy and they freeze really well. You should start by making it with JUST BANANA and nothing else! Because it's amazing. But for variety we have plenty of ideas below for flavours. Note: there's a video of how to make this one too at the bottom.
ADJUST SERVINGS
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BEFORE YOU START
Think about what flavours you want up front (and add them to your shopping list as these aren’t in the ingredients list!) We think just banana alone is amazing (sometimes better than tampering with it too much). But you can try these other ideas (and they’ve all got their very own fancy ice cream names too..)
- Chocolate Nesquik Ripple:
- Nesquik powder – 2 tbsp (30 g)
- Strawberry Fantasy:
- Fresh strawberries, chopped – 100 g
- Mint Chocolate Chip:
- Mint extract – 1 tsp (5 mL)
- Dark chocolate chips – 50 g
- Peanut Butter Swirl:
- Peanut butter, creamy – 3 tbsp (45 mL)
- Toffee Crunch:
- Toffee bits – 50 g
- Cookies and Cream:
- Crushed Oreo cookies – 5 cookies
- Honey Almond:
- Honey – 2 tbsp (30 mL)
- Sliced almonds – 50 g
- Bounty:
- Shredded coconut – 50 g
- Cocoa powder – 1 tbsp (15 g)
- Blueberry Cinnamon:
- Fresh blueberries – 100 g
- Ground cinnamon – ½ tsp (2.5 mL)
- Espresso Buzz:
- Espresso powder – 1 tbsp (15 g)
- Lemon and Poppy Seed:
- Lemon zest – 1 tbsp (15 mL)
- Poppy seeds – 1 tsp (5 mL)
- Caramel Salted Pretzel:
- Salted pretzels, crushed – 50 g
- Caramel sauce – 2 tbsp (30 mL)
- Raspberry Rose:
- Fresh raspberries – 100 g
- Rose water – 1 tsp (5 mL)
- Maple Walnut:
- Chopped walnuts – 50 g
- Maple syrup – 2 tbsp (30 mL)
- Piña Colada:
- Pineapple chunks – 100 g
- Coconut flakes – 30 g
- Spiced Apple Pie:
- Apple pie filling, canned – 100 g
- Ground nutmeg – ¼ tsp (1.25 mL)
- Pumpkin Spice:
- Pumpkin puree – 100 g
- Pumpkin spice mix – 1 tsp (5 mL)
- S’mores:
- Mini marshmallows – 50 g
- Graham crackers or digestive biscuits, crushed – 30 g
- Matcha Green Tea:
- Matcha powder – 2 tsp (10 mL)
- Birthday Cake:
- Sprinkles – 30 g
- Cake mix powder – 2 tbsp (30 g)
GET SHOPPING!
This is a reminder to check what ingredients you need to buy and add them to your shopping list. It’s good to do your own food shopping, but at the very least, you’re head chef, so send a family member out to the shops for you!
GET ORGANISED
Remember ‘Skill 2’ of the Big 5: Become super-organised.:
Add your own private notes:
Equipment
- Freezer-safe container (maybe an old ice cream tub?)
- Food processor or high-powered blender
- Spatula/spoon
- Knife
- Cutting board
Ingredients
- 4 Ripe bananas
- Optional toppings or mix-ins e.g. chocolate chips, nut butter, cinnamon, crumbled Cadbury's flake (see our ideas below)
Instructions
Prep in Advance
- Wash your hands
- Peel the bananas
- Slice the bananas into discs (half a cm thick or so – it's just to help them freeze and blend easily)
- Grab a freezer proof container with a lid (an old ice cream tub would do it)
- Freeze the banana slices for 2-3 hours (get them pretty solid but ideally not fully frozen or else they'll be harded to blend)
Making the ice cream
- Start by washing your hands
- Remove the frozen banana slices from the freezer
- If they are fully frozen, you could leave them out for 20-30 minutes or so to soften them a bit for blending
- Place the frozen banana slices into the food processor or blender
- Pulse the bananas until they form a crumbly mixture
- Scrape down the sides of the bowl with a spatula/spoon
- Continue blending until the mixture is smooth and creamy – we mean really creamy
- With no flavourings at all – just banana – this is an amazing 'ice cream' we think. But, for added flavour, blend in your optional toppings or mix-ins such as a tablespoon of nut butter or a sprinkle of cinnamon or some chocoate chips (you can always crumble up any chocolate bar, maybe a Cadbury's flake!) See our notes for more ideas.
- Transfer the ice cream back into the freezer proof container, and put the lid on
- Freeze until solid (or solid enough for your liking. Obviously that means pulling it out and testing it every so often, which we think you can just about handle..)
- Serve the ice cream as it is, or with extra toppings, maybe a sprinkle of ground cinnamon, some more banana slices, and a stick of cinnamon if you want to feel particularly pleased with yourself!
Video
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