Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Healthier Ice Cream Substitute

Tonight I wanted to make a sweet treat for a friend of mine who is injured, so I whipped up some "Nice Cream" in the food processor. Nice Cream is like ice cream, except instead of using dairy products as the base, you use frozen bananas. Nice Cream is easy to make, you just have to plan ahead a little.
What you'll need:
ripe bananas
a flat freezer safe dish
a food processor
anything you'd like to mix into your Nice Cream (For this batch I used coconut and pecans. I've also used peanut butter and hippie Nutella which are also both delicious, and a co-worker told me he's used figs. Really, anything you'd enjoy eating in regular ice cream should work fine)
Step 1: Peel the bananas and slice them onto the flat freezer safe dish in a single layer
Step 2: Freeze the bananas until they are solid (I usually freeze them overnight)
Step 3: Puree the frozen bananas in the food processor. They will go through some weird stages (big hard lumps, tiny gritty lumps, etc.). You want to keep pureeing them until they are still frozen but starting to get smooth. When they get to that point, mix in your other ingredients and give it one more whir. Scrape your concoction into a freezer safe container and freeze for a few more hours. Yum.
Happily, I made enough extra to enjoy some myself when I got home from my bike ride!

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