Did the photo above make you gasp?

Looks insanely decadent, doesn’t it?

Would you believe me if I told you this most sinful #foodporn is made completely of fruit and nuts… and… totally healthy?

This, my dear friends, is nice cream. Ice cream made by blending frozen bananas in a blender until it’s smooth and creamy like soft serve ice cream! Blend in your favorite fruit, nut milk, nut butter, or cocoa nibs and holy moly, you’ve created a little piece of heaven in your very own kitchen.

Chocolate nice cream, strawberry chia pudding, strawberries, coconut flakes, granola, puffed quinoa.

Let’s start with the basics…

Ingredients:

• 2 bananas, over-ripe and frozen
• 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

Instructions:

1. Peel and cut over-ripe bananas into large pieces and freeze in an airtight container.
2. Once frozen, place bananas into blender with 1/4 cup milk of choice and blend until you achieve a soft-serve texture.
3. Serve immediately or store in container and freeze another 30 minutes. Scoop out and serve like ice cream!

Variations:

Chocolate:

Add 1/4 tsp vanilla extract and 3 tbsp cocoa powder to frozen bananas & chocolate almond milk, then blend. For peanut butter cup nice cream, add 2 tbsp peanut butter.

Nutella:

Add 4 tbsp Nutella.

Peanut Butter:

Add 4 tbsp peanut butter (try almond butter too… Ohhhmaaagaaahhh so good!).

Cookies & Cream:

After blending frozen bananas & milk, add crushed cookie sandwich to mixture (I used oreos). Transfer to container and freeze for 30 minutes before serving.

Strawberry:

Add 1 cup frozen strawberries.

Coffee:

Add 1/2 tsp instant coffee.

Vanilla:

Add 1/2 tsp vanilla bean paste.

Nice Cream Sandwich:

Spoon nice cream flavor of your choice between two Banana Oatmeal Cookies! HO—-LY DELICIOUSNESS!

Dessert for breakfast? Heck yeah!!!

Banana Nice Cream

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Author: Carmen Sakurai

Ingredients 

• ▢ 2 bananas over-ripe and frozen
• ▢ 1/4 cup unsweetened almond milk

Instructions

• Peel and cut over-ripe bananas into large pieces and freeze in an airtight container.
• Once frozen, place bananas into blender with 1/4 cup milk of choice and blend until you achieve a soft-serve texture.
• Serve immediately or store in container and freeze another 30 minutes. Scoop out and serve like ice cream!

Notes

This is the BASIC recipe. Find my Chocolate, Peanut Butter, Cookies & Cream, Strawberry, and Nutella nice cream variations at https://www.girlplusfood.com/banana-nice-cream/

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Carmen

I’m a single mom of a premed, certified life strategist, religion teacher, best selling author, and advocate for victims of narcissistic abuse. If it’s yummy, quick, healthy, easy, yummy, and yummy… believe me, I’m all over it!

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