Banana Ice Cream in Three Flavors + VIDEO

This rich and creamy Banana Ice Cream is part of my vegan dessert series! Don’t miss the other recipes and the video below.

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Say hello to Banana Ice Cream—aka Banana Nice Cream, because it’s creamy, rich, decadent, yet nice and healthy. No ice cream maker required. This has got to be one of the easiest desserts to make!

Basically, all you need to make this amazing dessert are frozen bananas and a little bit of non-dairy milk. Yes, with those humble ingredients you too can experience the magic of vegan banana ice cream. Of course, you can take it a little further and add fun additions. My favorite combinations are raw cacao powder, espresso, and cardamom; and strawberry. I also like adding frozen mango, doing a chai spice, or adding nuts and chocolate chips. You can get really creative with this nice cream.

First off, always make sure you are using ripe bananas. Ripe bananas will allow you to completely avoid using added sweetener. My favorite way to freeze bananas is to peel them, cut them into small easy-to-blend chunks, then spread them evenly onto a parchment paper lined tray (make sure it will fit in your freezer). Freeze them like this so they don’t clump and stick together. If you don’t plan to use them within 12 hours of freezing, transfer the already frozen banana chunks to a freezer-safe container. Now that they’re already frozen they won’t stick together.

To make this perfect vegan banana ice cream, simply blend the frozen bananas with non-dairy milk. I use coconut milk for this because it’s so high in fat, and makes for the creamiest nice cream. If you don’t have coconut milk try using another non-dairy milk that is high in fat like homemade macadamia, brazil nut, or almond milk.

For those of us who love ice cream for dessert all year round, this banana nice cream should be in the freezer at all times. There isn’t a healthier, cheaper, more delicious and decadent ice cream!

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Banana Ice Cream | 3 Flavors

By: Jenné

Read my notes about freezing bananas above. To make this decadent and delicious banana ice cream all you need are ripe frozen bananas, coconut milk, and a blender. Note, for best results you should freeze the nice cream again after making it. However, no one says you can't eat a bowl right away, it'll just be more of a soft serve consistency at first 🙂

Prep Time: 1 minute minute

Cook Time: 2 hours hours

Total Time: 2 hours hours 1 minute minute

Servings: 6

Ingredients 

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• ▢ 6 frozen ripe bananas, cut into 1 inch pieces (be sure to peel and cut bananas before freezing)
• ▢ 5 tablespoons coconut milk or coconut cream + more if necessary

Chocolate Espresso Blend (double if using this blend for the entire batch of nice cream)

• ▢ 2 tablespoons raw or regular cacao/cocoa powder
• ▢ 1 teaspoon ground espresso, I used decaf so I can still enjoy it at night
• ▢ 1 teaspoon cardamom seeds, no shell, or ½ teaspoon ground cardamom
• ▢ 2 teaspoons date syrup or other liquid sweetener

Strawberry Blend (double if using this blend for the entire batch of nice cream)

• ▢ 1 cup frozen strawberries
• ▢ ½ teaspoon vanilla extract

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Instructions 

Banana Nice Cream Base (plain flavor)

• Place the frozen bananas in a high-speed blender with the coconut milk, and blend until creamy.
• If you aren't adding flavor additions, transfer it to a freezer safe container, and place into the freezer to firm for about 1-2 hours.

Flavor additions

• I like making 2-3 flavors each time I make banana ice cream. So I keep 1/3 of the nice cream plain, then I divide the other batches and one at a time blend in the additions.
• Be careful not to overblend. The ice cream should stay very cold, and a texture similar to soft serve.
• Transfer it to a freezer safe container, and place into the freezer to firm for about 1-2 hours.

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