So remember when I said all I wanted to do in this hot weather was sit around eating salads and ice cream?
Forget the part about the salad. And double up on the ice cream to make up for it. In this particular peanut butter and banana soft serve, the banana gives the recipe its ice-cream-like texture and the peanut butter gives a richness that really does make this recipe taste like actual ice cream. Or, if you omit the peanut butter, you’ll still have a delicious sherbet-like dessert.
Peanut Butter Banana Soft Serve
(No added sugar)
- 4 medium bananas, peeled and chopped into pieces (the riper, the better)
- 3-5 tbsp peanut butter (or other nut butter or sunbutter)
- optional: pinch salt
Freeze the chopped bananas in a Ziploc-type bag. Later, combine all ingredients in a Vita-Mix or food processor or blender. If you use a food processor or blender, you’ll probably have to add a little liquid to get everything to blend. You might also have to thaw the frozen bananas if your freezer is super-powerful. For authentic presentation, use an ice cream scoop to serve! (If you scoop it all into a container and freeze about 10-15 minutes, the texture will also become a bit firmer like ice cream, as opposed to soft serve.)
For more ideas, be sure to check out the following: 30 Healthy Ice Cream Recipes.
Basil mint! The mint part sounds good, but basil? Um excuse me, but this is ice cream, not a soup! 🙂
Jo,
Yay!! I’m so excited you were able to recreate it. Don’t worry: I bet yours tastes BETTER than DCD. Homemade’s always better:).
That ice cream looks amazing. I may have to make my own, except that it’s not sunny here. I’m more in the mood for soup!
The most disgusting ice cream I’ve ever had isn’t a particularly off flavour – bubblegum. I used to love it, and now the mere thought of it is disgusting. I think black pepper would be kind of good. I really like chocolate chili. It’s sweet with a bit of a kick, perhaps pepper would be the same? Or just weird. Sounds kind of like Bertie Botts Every Flavour Beans.
Katie,
That sounds like the Bertie Botts beans in Harry Potter! I don’t know if I would be brave enough to try the mystery flavor lol. What if it was something like “grass” or “earwax”?!
I’ve HAD black pepper ice cream before. It was at an Italian restaurant. The waitress was rattling off the desserts and she mentioned that one and we all recoiled in disgust. No one ordered it but she brought us a taste anyway. The worst part was that it was topped with CELERY CHUTNEY. So black pepper ice cream with celery chutney. It tasted as bad as it sounds!
Other Katie,
Ok, that’s just too creepy!! We were writing the same thing at the same time!
Hello love!!!!!!!!!!!! ahhhhhhhh this looks good!!! Loved that vitamix had to get in on the hug a fat action!!!
My fave icecream is mint chocolate chip all day long!!!!!!!!!!
xoxo
I used to watch Iron Chef marathons in college and if I learned anything, it’s that they’ll make ANYTHING into ice cream. Scary! 😛
I’ve had wasabi-flavored ice cream at coldstone, a sample. My friend tricked me when I was in middle school because I didn’t know what it was. It was the most disgusting flavor ever!
That PB banana ice cream looks yummy. There are some crazy ice cream flavors that just should not be made. I have been wanting to try avocado ice cream.